Around Broadneck: Students send gifts to Gulf Coast

Though most of the town of Ocean Springs in the Gulf Coast area of Mississippi was demolished by Hurricane Katrina, the town kids still had Halloween. Sort of.

Ocean Springs resident Doug Roll wrote to his cousin John Gourley, a sixth grade science teacher at Magothy River Middle School in Arnold: "With neighborhoods totally demolished, the residents of those neighborhoods set up their cars in parking lots, dressed the kids up with whatever they could find and the kids went trick or treating to trunks of cars."

Concerned, yet determined to help his students develop their sense of altruism, Mr. Gourley huddled with the teachers...