BoiseWeekly: News: News: After the Wave

BoiseWeekly: News: News: After the Wave: "After the Wave
Three months later, local tsunami aid is still adding up

BY ERIC LEINS
More (51)...Victor Sivilay, a business owner in southwest Boise, took in the horrifying tsunami images on Dec. 26 and was confident that his cousin, who lives in inland Thailand, would be safe.
Those same images struck Billy Pho, a Thai restaurateur in downtown Boise. Pho also has family in Thailand, but they stayed far out of harm's way in landlocked Bangkok.
Rachelle Brooks, Mason Hawk, Savanna Delavan and Jessica Blevins are sixth-grade students at Taft Elementary School. They have no loved ones in Southeast Asia, but the images were rattling for them as well. "