A little help for Pilot in Need #Harvey

yetti

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As y'all know one of our member got swacked hard by Hurricane Harvey.
Here are the addresses of the City Council if you have time to send them your thoughts on the position. mayor@cityofportaransas.org;wmoore@cityofportaransas.org;bbolner@cityofportaransas.org;bowens@cityofportaransas.org;bclark@cityofportaransas.org; ccrawford@cityofportaransas.org;jholt@cityofportaransas.org


So we had dinner tonight with Donnie, the head cheese at Cowboy Camp David. This was the 27th straight day these angels have fed us. Many of you have donated money to keep them going.

As always, the food was excellent and served with a smile and a hug, at the end of another endless 12 hour day. We simply cannot imagine surviving this last month without them.

We were saddened and angered to learn from Donnie that the city is shutting them down after dinner tomorrow, Tuesday night. They are still serving 1,500 meals per day to needy, displaced, and homeless Port Aransans, but the city is giving them the boot.

Donnie has been given free space to use on Beach Street, across from the former Wild Horse Saloon, and is willing to keep the free kitchen open as long as necessary -- but it is in the hands of the City Manager as to whether these angels will be allowed to continue to help the people of Port Aransas.

We are still housing 14 homeless families at Amelia's Landing. We are not seeing FEMA trailers, insurance money, and way too many people (our employees, too!) are out of work. IMHO, we NEED these angels to continue feeding and hydrating us.

If you feel the same, please let Charles Bujan and the city manager know.
 
Any reason given as to why?

Have you called the press? This is just dumb... why would they do this? Did some local restaurant owner complain about the competition?
 
@yetti, thanks for bringing this to light.

Why, exactly, has the city decided to shut down Camp David? I can get our news and lobby guys from
San Antonio involved, but without specifics like the city is short cutting established policy, etc., no one big will take this up.
 
but without specifics like the city is short cutting established policy, etc., no one big will take this up.

Established Policy is pretty much what got us into this mess as government services have been overwhelmed. City of Houston has 6 rescue boats and 1 high water vehicle. The Red Cross had about 500 beds pre positioned for the storm upwards of 20,000 people had to be rescued from high water in Harris County. There are a many many South East Texas Communities that have not even seen a government response a month after the storm. http://www.houstonpress.com/news/th...rris-county-was-disinclined-to-follow-9816085
 
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