The Houston Rockets, Kroger, and the Golden Nugget Lake Charles Hotel & Casino (also owned by team owner Tilman Fertitta) teamed up Thursday to deliver relief supplies to Houma, Louisiana, which was one of the areas hit hardest by Hurricane Ida in late August.
Rockets employees left Toyota Center early Thursday morning and stopped off at the Golden Nugget Lake Charles to pick up more volunteers before proceeding to Houma, which is located an hour southwest of New Orleans. Kroger transported the supplies from Houston to Houma via an 18-wheeler, and the volunteers handed items out at a distribution event in conjunction with the Red Cross.
“We have seen what it’s like,” said Sarah Joseph, senior director of community relations for the Rockets, from the distribution site. “We know what it’s like, as Houstonians. So to be able to come in and support this community, it means a lot to us. It’s just who we are as an organization. It’s important to the Rockets, and to the Fertitta family.”
Video footage can be viewed below. In order, the featured speakers are Lawrence DeHart, executive director of the Terrebonne Churches United Food Bank; Sarah Joseph, senior director of community relations with the Rockets; and Mike Buckley, operations director for the Golden Nugget Lake Charles. The video concludes with distribution footage.
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