Getting a reader to write about how they respond to our journalism is a meaningful part of our mission as a nonprofit news outlet, writes editor Jennifer P. Brown.
We invited a Hopkinsville woman to write about her efforts, along with two friends, after they filled shopping carts with food and other essentials that they carried to the local airport.
Donors may taken approved items, such as non-perishable foods, toiletries, diapers, feminine hygiene products and pet food, to the local airport terminal. A group of pilots will fly the items to affected communities.