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Vol State reaches out to tornado victims
Fund aids affected VSCC employees and students
Lauren Day
Issue date: 2/18/08 Section: News
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Castalian Springs in Sumner County is among the damaged areas.
On Friday, Feb. 8, 29 employees and one student from Volunteer State Community College helped with tornado relief efforts in Castalian Springs.
Vol State President Warren Nichols initiated the efforts, said Director of Public Relations Ken Lovett.
Lovett is among those who organized the school's response to the disaster.
Vol State coordinated its efforts to volunteer with clean up through the Hartsville Pike Church of Christ and the Cragfont Baptist Church, he said.
Lovett said that the volunteers from Vol State helped four families and also worked at the site where the Castalian Springs Post Office once stood gathering "pertinent mail."
"[The damage] is in spots in Sumner. It was kind of weird. One of the houses we helped was destroyed but the houses around them were less damaged," he said.
Vice President for Resource Development Karen Mitchell is involved in organizing Vol State's relief efforts and went with the group on Feb. 8.
The damage wasn't worse than I expected, said Mitchell.
"We were working in Shady Cove," she said. "Everyone went to the post office except for four of us ladies…. A couple saw us and asked 'Are you here to help?'"
"During the tornado their trailer flipped over while they were in it and they were too hurt to get their things out of their trailer…so we helped empty it," she
continued.
"After we finished helping the couple, we went over to the post office and felt overwhelmed," Mitchell said. "You just stand there in the middle of it all and ask 'Where do we start?'"
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