August 26, 2005 - (Story #1)
DOWN AND OUT: The Crawford Peace House had $3 in the bank and no phone service before it became the headquarters for Cindy Sheehan's war protest this month.
SUDDEN BOOST: Now the house that was established as a place for activists to gather in Bush's adopted hometown has received more than $150,000 in donations.
UNHAPPY NEIGHBORS: Many of Crawford's 700 residents view the Peace House as a nuisance and harmful to the town's image.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-peace-house-summary-box,0,6010201.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines(Story #2)
Sheehan Protest Aids Crawford Peace House
August 26, 2005
CRAWFORD, Texas -- With only $3 in the bank, things had been looking pretty grim for the Crawford Peace House.
The telephone was cut off last month for nonpayment. The co-founders used some of their own money to pay the mortgage and electric bill for the four-room bungalow, which opened a month after the Iraq war began in March 2003.
Then came Cindy Sheehan. The grieving California mother's quest to talk to President Bush about the war that claimed her 24-year-old son's life inspired thousands of war opponents across the country.
More than $150,000 in donations have poured in to the Peace House since Sheehan arrived Aug. 6 and started a makeshift campsite along the road leading to Bush's ranch. Because the rural campsite is small, many of the hundreds of visitors have spent their time a few miles away at the Peace House, which has become Sheehan's headquarters.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-peace-house,0,3050791.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlinesI'm not sure what AP is up to with these posts. Same headline, two different stories. The first one seems to have lost its point?