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Welcome to HugsAcrossAmerica.net!

We are happy to keep bringing you Hugs Across America news, highlight activities of our volunteers and create a fun place for our visitors, supporters and friends of our mission.

While you're here, browse the website to learn about our latest activities, click Chapters to find a Hugs chapter near you and don't forget to head to Kids Korner for fun games and activites.Sue

 

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Camp Annie's Hope Receives Teddies of Comfort

  • Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Helping children deal with loss is a significant part of Hugs mission and we are delighted to join the Moyer Foundation as it sponsors camp programs around the country for children who have lost someone significant in their lives.  Hugs Across America sent over 150 teddies to camp Annie's Hope this summer to do just that.

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Annie's Hope is a community based nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide comprehensive support services for children, teens and their families who are grieving the death of someone significant.

At the St. Louis Bereavement Center for Young People it is our goal to be the "go to" bereavement center focused solely on providing the most comprehensive services to meet the needs of grieving children, adolescents and their families in the greater St. Louis region.

 

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Band Students suffer in Bus Accident

  • Monday, August 09, 2010

St. James, Mo (KSDK) -- Friends and family gathered at a St. James church to remember a teenage student who was killed in a school bus crash on I-44 in Franklin County.

The funeral for Jessica Brinker  which began at 11:00 a.m at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church ended  with a horse drawn carriage that led the procession to the cemetery for her burial.

Brinker was the passenger in the back of the first school bus that crashed on eastbound I-44 Thursday morning on the way to Six Flags. Investigators said a semi slowed down as it approached a construction zone. A pick-up truck then hit the back of the semi. Then, two school buses carrying band students from St. James hit the crash.

Daniel Schatz, 19, who drove the pick-up also died in the crash. The Sullivan native was remembered in his hometown today.

Mayor Dennis Wilson, of St. James, spoke of the small, close nit town that he serves. " Many of the band members are still in the hospital.  This little town will take the loss of Jessica very hard, but the hugs of teddy bears... and knowing that others around the country care, will make a big difference as we heal."

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Children in an Afghan Village Receive Teddies

  • Sunday, August 08, 2010

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Lt. Todd Morrissey of Port Washington, NY and currently serving with Charlie Company, 101st Airborne Division is bringing good will to a small village in Afghanistan.  The children are very poor and frightened of the on going war that surrounds them.  Todd, with the support of his congregation at the Lutheran Church in Port Washington and Hugs Across America, is providing school, and personal supplies as well as the comfort of teddy bears to hundreds of the communities children.  This is a part of the war that touches the heart and perhaps brings some understanding among very different worlds.  We are delighted to help Todd with his mission.

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Flash Flood Kills in Arkansas

  • Friday, July 30, 2010

At least 16 people, including some children, were killed Friday after flash floods swept through their remote Arkansas campsites following a heavy rain.  The Albert Pike Campgrounds in Langley were all but washed away as a usually 3’ deep stream turned into a 23’ deep raging river.
About 60 campers were rescued by emergency workers, another two dozen hospitalized.  "About one-thirty, two in the morning, we started hearing children and women screaming and crying," said Crystel Hofer, who was asleep in her cabin when the water came raging through. "So we went to the door and opened the door and they were trying to come up the hill to where our cabin was to escape the rising water."
Hug's bears were called to help comfort children and families affected by this terrifying flood.  The American Red Cross set up a shelter response team and went to work immediately giving out food, water medical care and…teddies.Albert_Pike_Arkansas_Flood_Images

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