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It's been quite awhile since posting here. I hope things are going great for all of you. The last time I posted here I was checking to make sure everyone was ok from the May flooding.
I live in a small town of around 4,000 and love this place. It's home and a place I could stay at forever. When the flood hit our community had quite a bit of damage. Fortunately there was not a single loss of human life. However, plenty of homes, businesses and churches were flooded out. One of my biggest concerns after the flood was the damage done to our elementary and junior high school. Although the schools had a combined loss of $1 million, the damage to the elementary school forced the school to close the final 18 days of the spring semester.
Fast forward to July 12 and we are less than a month from the first day of school. Some would think that 2 months is plenty of time to fix a school. However, the fact that the school is still not ready speaks volumes about the damage.
Recently I found out that insurance only covers the physical building and essential resources. All personal resources lost by the teachers purchased from their own bank account will not be covered by FEMA or insurance. Long story short they have to bear a financial burden alone. I did not think this was fair and decided to do something about it. I set up a disaster relief fund in hopes of helping to raise money for the teachers impacted. We are going to take the total amount raised and split it among the 39-40 teachers impacted. Preliminary estimates is that this group lost an average of $1,000 each. One of our teachers lost 30+ years of resources.
This past Sunday night our effort was shared on the Nashville FOX affiliate. Here's a link to the report:
FOX 17 Report
We also have a facebook page that chronicles the recovery efforts:
Facebook Page
So here is where the Titans come in. The Titans have been great to our community in the past and come to visit the elementary school every year. I contacted Titans Radio in hopes of getting Mike Keith, the voice of the Titans, to come to the Disaster Relief Fair at the end of the month. I received a message from Larry Stone, Gameday host for Titans Radio. Larry extended his well wishes and said the crew would not be able to attend. He said he wanted to help us out even though they could not be there in person. He asked for an address and said to watch for something in the mail.
Today I received a box from Titans Radio with a pair of items to auction. Here are the items:
1) A signed cleat from Kenny Britt. The cleat was new out of the box.
2) The second item still has me stunned by the generosity. I found a sheet of paper that had been typed out. The paper read that the bearer was the recipient of a once in a lifetime opportunity. The bearer of the certificate would receive dinner for two with head coach Jeff Fisher and Mike Keith, the voice of the Titans! Apparently the dinner would take place before or after a run of the Jeff Fisher Show in Nashville!
What an amazing act of generosity for a very worthy group.
I hope all is well for everyone,
I live in a small town of around 4,000 and love this place. It's home and a place I could stay at forever. When the flood hit our community had quite a bit of damage. Fortunately there was not a single loss of human life. However, plenty of homes, businesses and churches were flooded out. One of my biggest concerns after the flood was the damage done to our elementary and junior high school. Although the schools had a combined loss of $1 million, the damage to the elementary school forced the school to close the final 18 days of the spring semester.
Fast forward to July 12 and we are less than a month from the first day of school. Some would think that 2 months is plenty of time to fix a school. However, the fact that the school is still not ready speaks volumes about the damage.
Recently I found out that insurance only covers the physical building and essential resources. All personal resources lost by the teachers purchased from their own bank account will not be covered by FEMA or insurance. Long story short they have to bear a financial burden alone. I did not think this was fair and decided to do something about it. I set up a disaster relief fund in hopes of helping to raise money for the teachers impacted. We are going to take the total amount raised and split it among the 39-40 teachers impacted. Preliminary estimates is that this group lost an average of $1,000 each. One of our teachers lost 30+ years of resources.
This past Sunday night our effort was shared on the Nashville FOX affiliate. Here's a link to the report:
FOX 17 Report
We also have a facebook page that chronicles the recovery efforts:
Facebook Page
So here is where the Titans come in. The Titans have been great to our community in the past and come to visit the elementary school every year. I contacted Titans Radio in hopes of getting Mike Keith, the voice of the Titans, to come to the Disaster Relief Fair at the end of the month. I received a message from Larry Stone, Gameday host for Titans Radio. Larry extended his well wishes and said the crew would not be able to attend. He said he wanted to help us out even though they could not be there in person. He asked for an address and said to watch for something in the mail.
Today I received a box from Titans Radio with a pair of items to auction. Here are the items:
1) A signed cleat from Kenny Britt. The cleat was new out of the box.
2) The second item still has me stunned by the generosity. I found a sheet of paper that had been typed out. The paper read that the bearer was the recipient of a once in a lifetime opportunity. The bearer of the certificate would receive dinner for two with head coach Jeff Fisher and Mike Keith, the voice of the Titans! Apparently the dinner would take place before or after a run of the Jeff Fisher Show in Nashville!
What an amazing act of generosity for a very worthy group.
I hope all is well for everyone,
