Thursday & Friday Cleanup

From the Mayor's Meeting concerning cleanup on Thursday and Friday

Thank You!
Thank you for your overwhelming response in helping our community cleanup.  The efforts have been a tremendous success!

Volunteer Work
The remainder of the work for Thursday and Friday looks to be raking, sweeping, picking up of small debris, and putting debris trash bags by the road side.  Many garden rakes, wheel barrows, and flat blade shovels have been donated.  Please wear work boots if available to reduce the risk of injury from nails.  Remember to first check in at the Volunteer Center located at the Assembly of God on 320 S. Meridian St. We are currently expecting our clean up needs to be complete by the end of the day Friday.  Thanks again for your service!

Electrical Wires
Please do not approach to pick up any power lines laying on the ground.  Wires may still have current.  Please call the electric department to report downed lines that need to be removed or report them at the Volunteer Center located at the Assembly of God on Meridian St.

Barricades
Police barricades will remain up through Thursday evening to protect our volunteers from traffic.  Please do not drive your vehicles around the barricades. 

Victims Needing Help
If you are a tornado victim needing any assistance please call the Connections helpline at 812-257-2650.  If a volunteer does not answer, please leave a message and you will be contacted.  You may also visit the Volunteer City on Thursday to report a need.

Materials Donations
Our community is currently not asking for any more material donations.  The known needs for food, cleaning supplies, and clothing have been met at this time.  We are currently working to handle our surplus.  Thank you for your desire to help. 

Monetary Donations

Daviess County Organizations Active in Disaster is equipped to receive funds for tornado disaster. Donations are being received. Send checks to DCOAD or United Way of Daviess County, PO Box 224, Wash. IN 47501, marked "Tornado Relief".   [DCOAD includes DC Emergency Management Agency, DC Sheriff Department, DC Health Department, American Red Cross, United Way of Daviess County, et all].  Applications for 'need' come through "Connections", at 257-2650.   

The DCOAD [Daviess County Organizations Active in Diaster] grew out of the DCLTRC [Long-Term Recovery Committee] formed in 2008. The mission statement is,  "To meet the need[s] for ongoing coordination & preparedness among communities [in Daviess County] by providing volunteers, financial, spiritial, physical and/or psychological support for individuals whose lives have been ravaged by a natural disaster in Daviess County.

To provide collaborative leadership in the discernment of long-term needs for recovery and rehbilitation that can be most effectively met by this community.  This mission is establilshed to prepare, protect & care for the citizens of Daviess County before, during & after a disaster."

Contact people for DCOAD are:  Paul Goss, DCEMA;  Ken Pierson, Director;  Sherry Davies Case Manager;  Brenda Sobecki, Physical Agent; Cindy Barber, secretary;  Richard Smith, board chr.

If people want to help the Red Cross as we continue to help those affected by the tornado. Monetary contributions can be mailed to PO box 350 or dropped off at the Red Cross office, 307 SE 21st Street in Washington.