Volunteers carry boards for the frame of a cabin at Sand Mountain Bible Camp in Trenton, Ga. The cabins will serve as boys dorms when they are completed. An April tornado caused about $2.3 million worth of damage to the camp.
Coleen Pridemore carries a board for the frame of a cabin at Sand Mountain Bible Camp in Trenton, Ga. The cabins will serve as boy’s dorms when they are completed. An April tornado caused about $2.3 million worth of damage to the camp.
TRENTON, Ga. – Coleen Pridemore was listening to Chattanooga radio station WMBW-FM Thursday morning when she heard about a tornado rebuilding effort at the Sand Mountain Bible Camp.
On Friday morning, Pridemore, with a nail apron around her waist, carried two-by-six boards over to concrete blocks laid for a cabin.
“I kept telling myself I need to get involved [in tornado cleanup],” said Pridemore, who lives in Rome, Ga. “I hadn’t done anything. But when I heard about this on the radio, I decided to come.”
Pridemore is an example of the loosely organized group that has come together from various places in Georgia to help disaster victims on Sand Mountain.
Friday’s group of about 20 volunteers included members of First Baptist Church in Woodstock, Ga., the Carl Black Automotive Group, which has dealerships in Georgia, Tennessee and Florida, and friends of both groups. They planned to stay overnight and continue working on the project today.