![]() Since we have a connection with our alumni, I thought it would be good, especially from our athletic department, to come together and support a community in need." And then my fiancé, his family was in the tornado. Several have graduated from our nursing department, specifically from Rolling Fork. "We have several alumni from the area," said Cecilia Kolesar, an assistant softball coach and assistant director of athletic academics at UAPB. Thomas May Field House at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff on Wednesday. To fill that gap, a softball coach and three students got together for a donation drive outside the J. Many residents are without a familiar roof to sleep under, and the need for everyday items like water and toiletries is greater. Tyson is also distributing frozen protein in Rolling Fork and serving hot meals only at another assistance location in Silver City, a smaller town 30 miles northeast of Rolling Fork that was also struck Friday.įor many in Rolling Fork and Silver City, the need is not limited to food. Tyson has donated 2 million servings, or about 500,000 pounds, of protein, with Walmart providing other food items, according to Bourke. Wednesday and will be in the area through Saturday. They had served 3,430 more meals as of 3:45 p.m. When you see the need in people – God gets all the glory for this – but then he sends out his servants to do all this work, and I'm willing."Ĭook teams and other crews from Tyson Foods facilities across Arkansas have teamed up with Walmart to provide hot meals in Rolling Fork since Tuesday, when they served 3,200 meals to community members, electrical workers, construction crews and volunteers. "I'm a deacon at my church, and my heart is filled with the Lord every day. "When a disaster like this happens, we all know people are in need," Merritt said. ![]() But this week, he leads one of Tyson's many cook teams serving the affected Deltans. James Merritt manages Tyson's service center in Pine Bluff. ![]() ![]() The rating is the second-highest on the Enhanced Fujita scale and obliterated the town of 1,900 that sits 36 miles south of Greenville. The tornado traveled 166 to 200 mph, meriting an EF4 rating, and killed 25 people in Mississippi and one in Alabama, according to multiple reports. "I would like to think, if I was ever in that situation myself, that I would be able to have that same can-do attitude that, hey, we will survive and we will move on and the Good Lord was good to me."īourke also noted some were not as fortunate. "As we see these individuals come through, I admire them for their resilience and their can-do attitudes – 'Hey, we're alive, and the Good Lord is taking care of us,'" said Bourke, a senior manager for Tyson's business operations sustainability team. Pat Bourke works in Tyson Foods' headquarters in northwest Arkansas, and he and several other employees have been in the town of Rolling Fork, Miss., some 140 miles southeast of Pine Bluff, serving hot meals to those in need. ![]() An EF4 tornado ravaged a Mississippi Delta town last Friday, and its impact hit close to home in Pine Bluff. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |