After hearing a Donation Drive announcement on Radio 93.7-MIKE for the school children victims of Hurricane Katrina, Cassidy Curry, 4 1/2 years old pleaded with her father to join in and help them. Bob Curry, the father (and the owner of New England Delivery, Inc.) immediately agreed and the two hurried to Walgreen's and purchased school supplies enough to fill the trunk of the car.

The Donation Drive was to be held on Sunday, September 11th, 2005, at Boch Honda in Norwood, MA and both Bob and Cassidy were planning to drop off their donations. But then the unexpected happened! On the day of the donation drive, an illness struck Cassidy's sister, Amanda, 2 years old who was rushed to the hospital. They never made the donation drive!

A few days later Bob had his secretary of New England Delivery contact 93.7-MIKE radio station to find out if he was still able to donate the school supplies. Surprisingly, upon speaking to Stacy Pollack, Mktg. Director of Entercom Boston (93.7-MIKE radio station) it was discovered that they were overwhelmed with the donation response and were short of a straight truck to transport the excess donations to Houston. Stacy asked if New England Delivery had a truck to accommodate them. Within minutes, Bob quickly responded and provided them with a truck to transport the goods from Boston to Texas. Normally, his business only services the New England (New York and NJ) areas, however, Bob thought it was a great way to make his daughter proud and to contribute to such a worthy cause. Without batting an eye lash, Brian Moody, one of New England Delivery, Inc.'s drivers immediately took the assignment. Besides Brian responding so quickly and generously, so did a few other people such as Larry Pelavin of "Signs by Tomorrow" who volunteered affixing lettering to Brian's truck prior to departure and Joe Troy, Owner of Charles River Moving Company who temporarily stored the excess supplies in his warehouse. Brian delivered the goods to Houston in record-breaking time. After the trip was completed New England Delivery, Inc. received a response from Texas via Entercom Boston (93.7-MIKE radio station) - it read as follows:

Stacy: We got the shipment this morning! Brian arrived with his truck from Boston and unloaded the shipment and we are in the process of sending all the backpacks out! We thank you Bostonians so much for your big hearts, You'll never know how much you impacted the lives of these evacuee children. Our best to all who worked on this project. We will be in touch soon.

Kindest regards, Carol E. Vaughan, Coordinator, Communications and Public Information, Harris County Department of Education, 6300 Irvington Blvd., Houston, TX 77022-5618.