I walk my kids to school by here twice a day. This had seemed to be a pretty decent area, but I'm a little afraid that we might be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm concerned about their safety.

Most of our products are transported by truck ... which would carry over to increased transportation costs for those products.

That's so wonderfully personal, and . . . it feels like one connection. Giving money seems so impersonal.

This would be a way to help that would be much more personal.

The problem with items is that someone has to pick through them to find the gems and discard the trash, and believe me there's a lot of trash, ... And no one has time in the Gulf states right now to perform that task.