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The work continues!
The Harvest Benefit!
We had a good turn-out for our auction. There was great music, lots of desserts and lots of items auctioned off.
THANK YOU to all the individuals who came out and supported the Long-Term Recovery!
Because the event items were donated and the venue was donated the LTRO was able to bring in over 8,000 dollars to support flood
victims in Lewis County! The work stillcontinues and any help via volunteering and donating are always very much appreciated!
This summer we are concentrating on finishing the many jobs that have been started but for what ever reason remain unfinished.
In the middle of July we had a team of 40 Seventh Day Adventist youth who painted, primed, cleaned up yard debris and garbage and hauled 3600 pounds off to the solid waste site. They did an awesome job!
The next week had 40 of the 70 high schoolers from the Youth in Mission group who installed insulation, painted the outside of a big house, spread gravel and landscaped.
The last weekend of July we will also have workers from the Vancouver Washington branch of Forward Edge here. We are excited to see this group since they will be bringing some professionals who are always welcome for the more technical tasks.
We also have been blessed with groups of workers from various United Methodist Churches Volunteer in Mission (UMVIM)on a biweekly basis. One of their members is skilled in building access ramps for physically handicapped individuals and we are in need of that skill at the moment for one of our more urgent cases. Their area lead requests list of our pressing needs and many times will bring a trailer with just the item a family needs.
We are slowly managing to finish the work we have started for many of our families. The needs of each family is different. Some families need someone to be there to help them wade through all their options. Others need help with the actual work of sheet-rocking and/or crawling under the house to install the insulation. Also, client need help knowing about other programs they qualify for but never knew were available. And believe it or not, we are still finding people who never knew there was any help out there.
We just recently met a single father who was just at the point of texturing his walls from the 2007 disaster when the January 2009 flood came. He had been working on the job alone. I can't begin to convey the joy on his face when he learned of the crews we could send to help. We helped him finish with the second tear out and have started sheet-rocking again. The last crew reinstalled his kitchen cabinets. This crew also used one of their trucks to pull the back porch in line with the house. Take a look at the video we have of this afternoon in our photo gallery. He has been paying the mortgage and rent on an apartment since December of 2007 so we are working on the basic services in the house to see how soon we can make it safe for his young son.
This is just one story of the clients we deal with on a daily basis. They are so appreciative of the work you all do for them.
I had one elder women call me in a panic the other day because the leader of the work group got out of her yard before she got to thank him personally!
They are so blessed by the work you are all willing to do.
Keep up the good work!