Huge thank you to Andy Meek for the wonderful article about Memphis To Moore in the Memphis Daily News.
Click here to read the entire article. Below are a few excerpts.
The Westin Memphis Beale Street Hotel is hosting a bash this week
organizers are calling “Memphis to Moore,” an event that will raise
money for the rebuilding effort in an Oklahoma community devastated last
month by a mile-wide tornado.
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The event in Memphis will be held Friday, June 14, starting at 7 p.m.
and will raise money for the Moore Public Schools Tornado Relief Fund.
Backers of the event include Memphian and Moore native Angela Copeland and RedRover Sales & Marketing.
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Tickets for the event are $50 in advance, available at
MemphisToMoore.org, and they’re $60 at the door.
Money
raised is intended to help students, families and staff of Moore Public
Schools, the third-largest district in Oklahoma. Copeland said a
significant amount of property the school district owns was damaged, so
they have a big need of funds for rebuilding efforts.
“It’s going
to pay for food, clothing, after-school care and school supplies,”
Copeland said. “I actually grew up in Moore. I attended Moore Public
Schools from kindergarten all the way up through 12th grade and
graduated from Moore High School. I had an amazing experience there. I
think here in Memphis when the tornado hit, people were really struck by
the heroism people were showing in Moore. We saw many cases on TV of
teachers laying their bodies across students to try to protect them. I
wasn’t surprised, because those are the same kinds of teachers I had in
Moore.”
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