East Palestine church hosts free meal for community, hands out water to families

EAST PALESTINE, Oh. — A church in East Palestine held a community meal to help residents impacted by the train derailment.

Members of the community gathered at Our Lady of Lourdes Church for the meal. The event was also designed to honor first responders.

Over 200 cases of water were handed out. Many families who attended said they have noticed how contaminated the creek in their town is and said they were grateful for clean water.

“To be honest, when this happened about 10 days ago when I woke up in the morning I thought, ‘The lord speaks to you and he said you should take some water down there,’ and I reached out to some buddies of mine and they said, ‘We’re in,’” said an organizer.

The event fed around 250 people.

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