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# Hotel wraps some love around Katrina victims
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/hotel-wraps-some-love-around-katrina-victims/
- Published: 2005-09-23T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:48:44.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Le Merigot Beach Hotel and Spa’s catering manager Jennifer Edwards has family who was displaced from New Orleans and are now refugees in Houston. They have lost everything. But the hotel’s general manager, Paul Hortobagyi, started a clothing collection campaign from hotel employees and those packages were wrapped at a “wrapping party” where Edwards hand-delivered the goods to her family in Houston earlier this month. The staff at Le Merigot also collected money for the Red Cross. Free English classes being offered

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 23, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/092305.pdf?ref=smdp.com)