Osceola County Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Help Victims of Hurricane Michael in Florida’s Panhandle
Image Credit: Justin Rucker Friday to Sunday October 19-21, 2018 About 165 members of the Orlando Florida Hunters Creek Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints joined with more than 3.000 members of the Church from the Southeast US who traveled at their own expense, and donned their familiar yellow “Helping-Hands” shirts Friday evening to begin work on Saturday (October 20, 2018), with chainsaws, trailers, tarps and anything else useful for recovery efforts. Members of the Hunters Creek Stake were assigned to labor about an hour west of Tallahassee, close to the borders of Alabama and Georgia in the hard hit Town of Alford. Alford is a community of about 500, about a 1.25 hour drive west of Tallahassee on the south side of Interstate 10. Alford is in desperate need of assistance; clearing trees, tarping roofs, mucking out homes, raking, shoveling, debris, cleaning up and making piles on the street for removal. Elder Bednar in Marianna, FL...