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AP via Portland (ME) Press Herald, 9/10:

Train lined up to help food bank send aid south


AUBURN — Two railroad cars loaded with 200,000 pounds of food, water and supplies will pull out from a warehouse Monday, destined for the Gulf Coast to help hurricane victims. Charles "Budd" Large, executive director of the Good Shepherd Food Bank, said a three-day campaign for bottled-water donations last week at the Maine Mall netted enough bottled water to fill six tractor-trailers.

The problem was finding a way to get the water from the food bank's warehouse in Auburn to those in need nearly 1,500 miles away.

But Large got a call from Bob Drake at Safe Handling, a chemical manufacturing and distribution company. Drake wanted to know whether there was some way his company could help with relief from Hurricane Katrina.

"You don't happen to have six tractor-trailers sitting around, do you?" asked Large. "He said 'No, but let me make a call.' "

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