Viewfinder: Cleaning Up After Hurricane Isaac

Locals church members went to Louisiana to help with Hurricane Isaac clean-up.

Members from congregations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, including Tucker, traveled to LaPlace, Louisiana over the weekend to assist with Hurricane Isaac clean-up as part of the church’s Helping Hands program. The program was established in 1998 to help people whose lives have been affected by natural disasters and other emergencies. Volunteers traveled to the area with chain saws, hammers, crowbars, utility knives, brooms and rakes as well as their own food, water, work clothes, sleeping bags and tents. They were instructed to report to the LaPlace church to help with flood-damaged houses in nearby St. John the Baptist’s Parish. Members from Atlanta began arriving late Friday and by 8 a.m. Saturday morning were …

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