BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Charity collects $2,500 for victims of tsunami Eugene-based India Partners India Partners is a U.S. non-governmental organization that partners with indegenious managed charities in India on projects to help the poor. It has been operating since 1984. Sources
Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. group hopes to collect at least $10,000 in response to urgent requests from people in the Manginapudi beach area and surrounding villages hit by Sunday's deadly waves. The money will help supply rice, blankets, milk, clothes and cooking utensils for victims. "We are committed to raising $10,000 so the victims of this disaster can eat and stay warm after such a tragic loss," said Brent Hample, India Partners Executive Director. "Many of the victims have lost loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl as well as their homes, and we will do what we are able to get them through this difficult time." India Partners, which began as a child sponsorship Child sponsorship allows an individual, typically in a developed country, to sponsor, or fund a child in a developing country until the child becomes self sufficient. This could mean financially supporting the education, health or security of the sponsored child, or in some cases program in 1984, is a Christian charity committed to supporting self-help ministry projects in India. It teams up with similar organizations based in India. Contact India Partners at 683-0696 or (888) 870-9085, or write to it at P.O. Box 5470, Eugene, OR 97405. Online: www.indiapartners.org. Policeman stops driver, finds pot growing in car COBURG - A Coburg police officer found 42 marijuana marijuana or marihuana, drug obtained from the flowering tops, stems, and leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa (see hemp) or C. indica; the latter species can withstand colder climates. plants growing in the back seat of a rental car whose driver he stopped for speeding. Officer Darren Fox was patrolling Interstate 5 near Coburg at 3:39 a.m. Wednesday when he saw car doing 85 mph in a 65-mph zone. He pulled over the driver and arrested him on suspicion of drunken driving. During a search of the car, Fox found the live plants and a small amount of marijuana. In addition to drunken driving, the driver, Kishorn Rhodil Herbert, 26, of Corvallis was arrested on suspicion of manufacturing and delivering a controlled substance controlled substance n. a drug which has been declared by federal or state law to be illegal for sale or use, but may be dispensed under a physician's prescription. , driving while suspended and speeding. |
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