Music icon Dolly Parton has announced she will make a personal donation of $1m (£762,000) towards disaster recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
Speaking at an event in her home state of Tennessee on Friday, the 78-year-old said the money would come “from my own bank account”.
Parton’s local commercial ventures - including the Dollywood amusement park - would also donate the same amount to the Mountain Ways Foundation, which is aiding those affected by flooding in the region.
During her remarks, Parton broke into song, singing “Helene, Helene” to the tune of her 1973 hit Jolene.
Dolly is a modern day Saint. One of the best to do it.
Dolly Parton continues to do good things.
When Dolly finally leaves us, she better fucking be lying-in-state at the Capitol so the country can mourn her loss. Because I’m not religious, but she’s as close to deserving sainthood as a person can get.
Her, Fred Rodgers, and…yeah, that’s a short list. I’d add my grandmother there too, but nobody would know who I’m talking about.
Jolene remix. It’s strangely good.
I really like the slowed down, sad Jolene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMrfM711vXI
I prefer The Eldritch Horror Of Jolene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8fXWDRqRbw
Classy, as always.
Where’s Musk’s donation? Oh, right, empathy is for wokies.
As much as I don’t like him, he was supposedly donating starlink equipment to help with connectivity in the area. I’m sure it comes with a host of caveats and gotchas but it’s something at least
He was claiming he had a helicopter that couldn’t land due to FAA rules or some stupid crap. Whatever happened to that? The tweet reminded me of a troll in a forum who everyone is ignoring and he keeps shouting he’s being shadow banned because he’s right.
He was claiming he had a helicopter that couldn’t land due to FAA rules or some stupid crap
Seems unlikely.
There were plenty of private helicopters out there hauling emergency supplies in and people out as soon as the storm passed enough for them to land.
Unless musk’s helicopter was trying to go it alone and getting in the way, instead of joining the coordinated effort, I’m gonna assume this is just another of his bullshit stories.
