TONS OF DONATED FOOD ENROUTE TO SAMOA

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Gus Hanneman

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   Tons of donated food enroute to Samoa
HONOLULU (AP) - Fifteen tons of food bound for cyclone - ravaged Samoa left> Oahu on Monday. The shipment includes pallets of rice, Spam, corned beef and cooking oil for those affected by Heta, the first tropical cyclone of the season, which plowed through American Samoa and neighboring Samoa on Jan. 4 with winds up to 200 mph.

The food was partly funded by a $10,000 donation from actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, a Hawaii native whose grandmother lives in a Samoan village. Gus Hannemann, the organizer of the local relief effort, said Johnson's donation was key to the food drive's success. "You know the old adage, 'It takes a village to raise a child,"' he said. "In this case, it takes one child to feed a village."