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With the help of two local companies,
the Wake Forest Community Response Team
was able to ensure that Christy Brown
will be able to get to a hospital to
deliver her first child in about a
month. |
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Brown and her mother, Candy
Brown, live on North Main Street, and
their driveway crossed the dam of a
small pond. Tropical Storm Alberto’s
rains washed out a section of the dam,
creating a huge hole in their driveway.
Their only access to the outside world
has been some planks across the 15-foot
hole, but that would not be safe for a
woman in labor. |
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Neither of the Browns nor the property
owner, Candy Brown’s aunt, could afford
the $3,000 to $5,000 to repair the
driveway, and appeals to local, county,
state and federal agencies were turned
down because it is a private drive
outside the town limits and the town had
not been declared a disaster area after
Alberto.
Mike Johnson, chairman of
the response team board, said they took
on the project “based on it being a
‘natural disaster’ due to the heavy
rains this summer.”
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Johnson called on Mike Marguerat of Landmark Construction
Company and Linwood Hicks of Hicks
Utility Company, and they provided
assistance and equipment.
Johnson and Chip Russell,
the president of the team, pitched in to
help on the project that took 12 hours
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“Landmark and Hicks Utility
Company deserve a great deal of credit
for doing this,” Johnson said.
“Otherwise, this project would have cost
over $10,000. The response team is
paying for materials only.” That will
run to about $2,000, including the
36-inch pipe to go under the driveway
and loads of dirt, stone and sand.
The Wake Forest Community
Response Team, organized last year to
help after Hurricane Katrina, is a
nonprofit organization. Russell, the
town’s planning director, is president,
and Lisa Newhouse, a vice president at
SunTrust Bank, is vice president.
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Johnson chairs the board of
directors, which is made up of
Commissioner Stephen Barrington, Bettie
Murchison, Sue Anthony, Randy Bright,
Mike Greene, Don Griesedieck, Jeff
Leonard, Mark Fleming and Wayne
Morrison.
“We need volunteers,”
Johnson said, “but mostly we need
donations to help pay for materials,
equipment, etc., which will be used in
our community for projects like this.” |
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