Rachael Ray Cooks Up Prom for Tornado Victims

Rachael Ray is making sure some grieving students smile again. The celebrity chef and talk show host paid for, planned the menu and helped prepare dinner at Enterprise High School's senior prom. It was one of two schools in Alabama that was destroyed by a series of tornadoes March 1, 2007. Eight high school students died during the storms.

Celebrity chef and talk show host Rachael Ray planned dinner for students in Alabama whose school was destroyed by a tornado.

Host of the syndicated show, The Rachael Ray Show, the Food Network personality said this was the right thing to do. Through her publicist Georgianna Dente, Ray, 38, said, "The students of Enterprise High are so courageous, given all that they've gone through. The prom was all about celebrating their accomplishments and honoring the classmates who tragically lost their lives. When I heard about what happened to their school and classmates, we wanted to help."

Ray coordinated donations for this event, which was taped for an episode of her talk show that will air April 30, 2007.

Pop singer and actress Mandy Moore joined forces with Rachael Ray and performed three songs at the end of the prom, which had a theme of "Caught in the Moment." Her new album, Wild Hope, is scheduled for release June 19, 2007.

On April 5, 2007, Alabama Governor Bob Riley signed a bill that would appropriate $32 million to rebuild the schools leveled by the tornadoes -- Enterprise High School and Hillcrest Elementary School. Besides the eight students who were killed, dozens were injured or hospitalized. Photographs of the two seniors killed in the accident lined the dance floor.

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