By JoAnn Biren
Murray County News Staffwriter
Faye Schuur, a resident of Chandler, celebrated her 60th birthday during Hurricane Florence. “I celebrated the day after I got here!” she said recently. Schuur, a volunteer with the Red Cross has long been helping those who are left temporarily homeless by the forces of a nature that destroys homes and business. She knows first-hand what can happen; she recalls the help the community received when the skies turned dark over the Chandler, Lake Wilson area in the summer of 1992 and so much was destroyed by a massive tornado. She began volunteering soon after.
“It was in 1994 or 95,” she said of her start with the American Red Cross. “I was on the local Red Cross Board, Pastor Bob Moritz got me involved,” she explained. “That was when each county had board members and the local chapter was in Worthington. That is no longer the case,” she concluded. But, she is still actively involved; her stint in South Carolina in September is the latest example.
“You have to have at least two weeks available to help out,” she explained. “You know, for some, especially those who have jobs they have to get back to, that can be hard.” Schuur contacted the Mankato office of the Red Cross, volunteered for two weeks and took off on September 12. “The last leg of the trip we arrived in Myrtle Beach,” she explained. “There were only eight people on the plane, everything was closed, why take a trip?” she said with a grin.
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