About 20 volunteers turned out Saturday to help a 96-year-old resident fix up her home and property in Kansas City, Kansas.
The volunteers helped out with such areas as yard and lawn, roof, mechanical and other areas. The volunteers included professionals in their fields. Those companies that were represented included Rodriguez Mechanical Contractor, Serge Electrical, Ussery Body Shop, Jim’s Lock and Safe, and Lambert’s Protect Roofing, along with others.
The volunteers were coordinated by Janice Witt and the Reola Grant Center.
Electrical power was turned on Friday for the elderly resident, after volunteer work was done by area electricians. She was without power for three weeks. Other areas of her home also were improved.
Witt, who is running for mayor, worked many hours on getting the power turned back on for the resident, helping the resident, working through various situations with getting the power back on, and with getting the home fixed.
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Efforts underway to help 96-year-old woman with her house and electricity
We are Community!!
I was concerned as to rather to share this album since I am now running for Mayor. Usually we post a few pictures and it is all inside. Many don’t know that The Reola Grant Center is actually Ron and I with our group of Magic Merry Men and Women. I talked to a friend about it and these words rang true.
“Taking care of people is what you do and have done for a lifetime. Why would you hide it under a bushel. Others may have kodak moments. You live a kodak life and people need to know that. If they don’t like it, they should do more for the community”.
Another older Lady many years ago that we knew and loved, Mrs. Ruby Hicks, who passed at 96. She used to sit in the office and we would “chat”. She said “Janice, it takes all kinds to make the world spin”. There ya go. We are all kinds, lol.
A community is measured by how they care for their old, their young, their sick and their veterans.
What we do for the least of them, we do for him.
The Reola Grant Center for Family Life Development
Ron and Janice Witt
Rodriguez Mechanical Contractors (Plumbing),
Serge Electrical,
Ussery Body Shop,
Jims Lock and safe,
Lamberts Protec Roofing… among others
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