Electrifying rural Haiti
Local lineman spends three weeks bringing power to villages WORTHINGTON — A lineman with Nobles Cooperative Electric recently returned from a three-week stint in a small Haitian village, where he worked to help electrify rural areas of the country.
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Coriolan shares his tales of moving from Haiti to the U.S.
WORTHINGTON — The sole reason Ernst Coriolan and his wife, Carol, moved to Worthington was to job-hunt.
Local kids lead fundraisers for Haiti
WORTHINGTON — It was all their idea. And it turned out to be a good one.
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DES MOINES, IA – Hy-Vee customers throughout the Midwest contributed a total of $100,000 to the American Red Cross International Response Fund during Hy-Vee’s “Help Us Help Haiti” campaign.
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Windom boy, 6, puts Haiti need over own trip
WINDOM — He had been saving for a trip, but when Alex Altman learned about the tragedy that struck Haiti, he decided there were people who needed the money more than he did.
Haiti relocating homeless, port repairs needed
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitians are fleeing their quake-ravaged capital by the hundreds of thousands, aid officials said Friday, as their government promised to help nearly a half-million more move from squalid camps on curbsides and vacant lots into safer, cleaner tent cities.
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BEMIDJI - Registered nurse Dan Critchfield will soon be tending to patients in Haiti.
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LONDON (AP) — Simon Cowell is planning a charity single to benefit victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
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SHELDON, Iowa — Rachel Roozeboom was riding in the back of a truck, returning to Port-au-Prince from a village where she and other volunteers had been distributing clothes and shoes, when the earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12.
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ALEXANDRIA - They came, they helped, they packaged and they boxed up nearly 45,000 meals that will be shipped to the people of Haiti.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The most powerful aftershock yet struck Haiti on Wednesday, shaking more rubble from damaged buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets eight days after the country's capital was devastated by an apocalyptic quake.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of Haiti quake victims are struggling to board buses to flee hunger and violence in the shattered capital, hoping that food will be easier to find in the countryside.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Scores of U.S. troops landed on the lawn of Haiti's shattered presidential palace Tuesday to the cheers of quake victims and the U.N. said it would throw more police and soldiers into the sluggish global effort to aid the devastated country.
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MIAMI — That is ultimately the fundamental lesson here, as children wail, families sleep out of doors, and the dead lie unclaimed in the rubble that once was Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
RELATED CONTENTWhether by text, Internet or check, local Red Cross office encourages donations
WORTHINGTON — Ten dollars may not seem like much, but when it comes from a multitude of different pockets, it can sure add up fast.
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