community
december7
2017
Ten Years After the
Flood continued from page 5
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CommunityLearning Center hosted the quickly formed Co-
lumbia County Flood Relief where residents and businesses
received assistance navigating the FEMA system and helped
victims with immediate unmet needs. Volunteers came from
near and far; one was from Arizona. A load of supplies ar-
rived from Wyoming, packed by relatives of a local Vernonia
family.
Providence
Health set
up a tempo-
rary clinic
in tents to
meet
the
medical
needs of lo-
cal patients.
An un-
usual
assort-
ment of volun-
teer groups and
organizations
stepped up to
help Vernonia
get back on its
feet.
Vernonia
Cares, the lo-
cal food bank, a
service people
would have counted on in an emergency, was a victim of the
flood themselves, and lost a good portion of their supply. Local
volunteers spearheaded the initial clean up while the Church of
Scientology Disaster Relief Program built new shelves to store
food. Vernonia Cares was reopened and distributing food in six
days.
Several other church and religious groups showed up,
including the Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation. Groups of
school children arrived with blankets and picked up garbage.
Even inmates from the Oregon Department of Corrections were
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on hand for several weeks,
unloading supplies, chopping
firewood, cleaning up debris
and hauling away garbage.
After an eight day
break and with all three school
buildings unusable, Vernonia
students were bussed to Scap-
poose and shared facilities
there for nine days until the
Christmas break.
As the immediate
needs of local residents were
met – things like food and
shelter – the community be-
gan to realized that the full re-
covery would take many long
years, and things never would
be the same.
Next issue:
Part 2 – The
Long Recovery
book
for the Vernonia Public Library
December 4 - December 22, 2017
Choose from a selection of books to purchase for the
Library's collection during the month of December.
This year, we are focusing on books for children and teens.
By request, the Library will put a donation plate inside
the book commemorating the gift.
Thank you to the Friends of the Library for sponsoring this event.
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