Dear Editor:
Disaster after disaster and our community continues to give.
Following Joplin's tornado, we left early Monday morning to take a generator to our daughter and her family who live in Joplin. Luckily they only lost power to their home, but one-fourth a mile closer and they could have lost much, much more and would have been in the same situation as many of their friends.
We saw the devastation first hand and still cannot comprehend how long it will take for a recovery to take place. However, what we noticed as soon as we got to Joplin was that people from Jefferson City kept asking what could be done to help, what could they send to help the citizens of Joplin. In the midst of so much bad in this world, people continue to step up to help and donate what they can.
Within three days our son, with the help of Calvary Lutheran High School, put together a large trailer load of donated items, from bottled water, to cleaning supplies, personal hygiene items and quilts to take to Joplin and to distribute through various churches.
Even though this is on a much smaller scale than other larger organizations, it just shows what a few people can do when they work together to help another community in trouble.
We just want to say thank you to all who gave to this "small" effort. Thank you to those children who collected and donated money and other items, thank you to friends, family and companies, thank you to Craig and Jayne Gratz, thank you to the Missouri Department of Corrections, and thank you to Jeff and Stacey DeLong who drove these donated items to Joplin.
We are proud to know so many caring individuals and to live in a town that is so willing and quick to give without question.
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