Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
AMERICORPS NCCC volunteers Mary Baxter, left, and Jason Phipps help throw out a mattress damaged by the July 11 flood Saturday. They were two members of a team that came to Iron County to help older residents remove flood-damaged property from their homes.
HURLEY - As Iron County continues to recover from the storms and flooding that hit the region earlier this month, a group of AmeriCorps volunteers arrived to help residents cleanup storm damage in their homes.
The eight volunteers that make up team Cedar 4 - between the ages of 19 and 23 - came from the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps' North Central region; which includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
The team arrived Saturday from Wabeno, Wis., where they were building a boardwalk, and left Monday.
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