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A trailer full of supplies will leave St. Charles for Asheville on Friday
ST. CHARLES, Mich. (WJRT) – The clean-up, the recovery and even the search for more bodies continues in western North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
Those people still need help and a couple of Saginaw County dog kennels teamed up to collect goods and they are on their way tomorrow.
“We started this a couple of weeks ago,” says Jennifer Boucher, who owns Windmere Kennels in the St. Charles area.
She runs the dog grooming, boarding and training business, and yes, she has puppies her too.
Craig and Luann McNally own their own kennel in the area as well.
The McNally’s were vacationing in western North Carolina a week before Hurricane Helene hit.
“We were actually just down there and we drove through most of these towns,” says Craig.
Towns in some cases that will never be the same.
“Looking at towns I had just been in, churches that I had seen that are now six and seven feet under water,” he says.
So the two kennels decided to do something, putting out the word they were collecting supplies to take down to North Carolina.
“It just went crazy, we have so much to deliver to these people down there,” says Boucher.
They have been in contact with a church in Asheville area, which told them the people of that region need clothes, non-perishable food, heaters, anything that help them recover from the disaster.
The McNally’s have close friends in the Asheville area.
“Probably a good ten to twelve days without power,” says Luann on how one how friend was impacted.
“Yeah, they were high enough up that they weren’t wiped out,” says Craig.
“They are still in need down there, definitely in real need, so we don’t want to forget about them,” says Boucher.
They haven’t been forgotten. The trailer is being loaded for the trip to a Baptist church in the Asheville area. A couple of mid-Michigan kennels join forces to help people hundreds of miles away and this may not be the only trailer full of supplies that they will collect.
“It’s devastating, its very devastating, so to help in anyway possible, this is a good thing,” says Boucher.
And that trailer will be leaving St. Charles heading for North Carolina first thing in the morning.
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Terry Camp anchors ABC12 News First at Four and ABC12 News at 5:30. He also reports on issues in the Great Lakes Bay Region.
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