Fee Hedrick Family Entertainment Group

PIGEON FORGE, TN – There is just something about men and women from Tennessee that pushes these big hearted people to volunteer and rescue their fellow Americans. That’s why they call it “The Volunteer State.”

At 11:00 a.m. Sunday morning, with police escort and an awaiting ambulance service and triage unit, David Fee, his associates, and 10 of hurricane Katrina’s victims will arrive at The Comedy Barn Theater in Pigeon Forge. A touching human drama brings them to this place in time.

Late Friday Night, September 2, 2005, Comedy Barn Theater co-owner, David Fee, of Pigeon Forge, TN departed for New Orleans in a large, refrigerated, box truck he purchased to deliver supplies to hurricane torn Louisiana and Mississippi. Arriving early Saturday morning, the National Guard troops waived the truck, with large lettering on the sides reading: “HELP IS ON THE WAY TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS COMEDY BARN THEATER, PIGEON FORGE, TN,” through barricades and into storm ravaged New Orleans. Once inside the city, David, and two of his employees, Tony Culbertson and Dennis Nelson learned that a refugee camp in Metaire, LA was in dire need of their supplies and assistance.

Arriving at a high school-turned refugee camp- in Mataire, LA; Fee, Nelson, and Culbertson dropped off bottles of cool, fresh bottled water and other much needed supplies donated by businesses throughout the Great Smoky Mountain cities of Sevierville and Pigeon Forge, TN. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials asked Mr. Fee if he could take several of the men, women, and children inside the camp, back to Tennessee where their needs could be met. Lining the bed of the truck with donated mattresses, Fee was prepared to rescue the individuals.

Given the option to stay in a safe, comfortable hotel room overnight or drive on to East Tennessee, the displaced people chose to drive through the night in order to enable David Fee to return to Louisiana and rescue their loved ones. A man, traveling with his wife and child, wishes to stay in Pigeon Forge where he can be with kind people like Fee and his associates. A 60-year -old woman, riding in the rescue truck, expresses the same desire. Mr. Fee will provide airline tickets to two of the men who, after their injuries are tended, wish to continue on to New York, where friends and family await them. Fee has offered employment opportunities to many of the evacuees who arrived in Pigeon Forge earlier in the week, and the same kindness has been extended to the men and women he has rescued.

David Fee is co-owner and President of Fee/Hedrick Family Entertainment Group. The Comedy Barn Theater is the flagship for the entertainment group that is dedicated to family, faith, and fun. Fee also owns the Black Bear Jamboree Dinner and Show, the Blackwood Breakfast Variety Show, and The Miracle Theater , opening in March of 2006, please call 865-429-7183 for show information.