141:, a large, primitive type camping event in which up to 20,000 people attend. Those who attend these gatherings have become skilled at making and serving food for extremely large groups of people for long periods of time and in very basic situations. The cafe operated free of charge and was supported solely by donations. The cafe served up to 4000 meals three times a day. The volunteers who built the cafe were Bastrop, TX church members and later operated by attendees of Rainbow Gatherings. As attendees of Rainbow Gatherings, the cafe volunteers often appeared to look like
220:. The clinic operated primarily as a walk-in clinic where patients could see a doctor for all complaints and receive free medication. Due to the lack of a functioning emergency room the clinic was sometimes utilized as a facility to stabilize a patient while an ambulance was en route to transport the patient to an emergency room. The closest hospitals were 42 miles (68 km) to the west at the
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Bradley Stone Waveland Clinic, named in honor of Brad Stone, a pre-medical student from Harvard, who, with the help of other out-of-state volunteers, set up a medical clinic in a parking lot that was active for almost three months, saw over 5000 patients and provide basic
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Waveland Cafe, a combination soup kitchen, donation depot and medical clinic for survivors of Hurricane Katrina, volunteer groups of God-fearing churchgoers and free-spirit hippies have formed a bond - a result, they say, of working together toward the greater
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Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the US Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005 as a
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528:"We probably served 500-600 people," Dawn Hundt said "We would get up and start cooking and go until we dropped." And, thus, the New Waveland Café was born.
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