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By Anita L. Sherman
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
As hurricane season is getting underway, there are still thousands that are without homes and jobs after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina nearly a year ago. There are thousands of displaced citizens scattered throughout the United States either resettling or making efforts to return to their neighborhoods and communities that were literally wiped out by flood waters.
National, state and local emergency services proved under prepared and overwhelmed for the likes of Hurricane Katrina and criticism ran rampant then and, although reportedly improved, continues as allegations of fraudulent use of emergency funds has has now made the waters even murkier in addition to recent outbreaks of violence in New Orleans.
Through all this, local church groups and concerned citizens throughout the country rallied, made connections with sister churches in heavily hit areas, and began sending down teams of volunteers to help where they could - little by little, house by house, to make a difference - literally one family at a time.
Here in Rappahannock County, a coalition formed consisting of concerned individuals, many members of local churches, who organized several fund raisers including a pot-luck at the Washington Fire Hall and a music festival at Sunnyside. Monies were sent to a free clinic in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Sperryville counselor Barbara Adolfi was instrumental in directing some of those funds directly to individuals and families that she met when she visited.
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