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Hoosiers stood poised Monday to Charitable groups offering help: Highly motivated sales
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and-rescue team known as Task Force www.salvationarmyusa.org/
Special Reports • Catholic Charities USA: (800)
One on Monday waited in Meridian, 919-9338 or visit
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Miss., prepared to drive or fly to www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/
• Susan Guyett wherever Katrina hit hardest. The outfit • Episcopal Relief and
Development: (800) 334-7626 or
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The retired schoolteacher is ready to direct his ambulance-sized vehicle full
Customer of food to the most needy storm victims.
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Subscriber "Everybody's anxious to get moving," Kominowski said. "But if we get
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moving too early, we become part of the problem instead of the solution."
 Indianapolis is one of the eight Red Cross national hot-line centers that
storm victims and their families can call for advice and assistance. The Red
Cross has volunteers staffing 10 telephones, said Jennifer Pribble, a Red
Cross spokeswoman.
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Communities Utility companies in Central Indiana also were on standby.
Fact Files Cinergy/PSI has more than 100 employees -- mostly electrical line workers
Message from Indiana -- in the Miami area helping restore power in the wake of
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6-month-old daughter, Ryan Dice, have taken refuge.
"We're sitting here watching the news," said Wray. "Unfortunately, they
Should Gov.
Daniels suspend aren't showing the neighborhoods. You could only see the Superdome roof
the state sales tax torn off so many times. You just want to see your house."
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