Leading the way
At the begining of December, our town experienced a terrible ice storm that knocked out over 90% of the power in town and in the country. This stormed tore down trees all over blocking ways in and out of homes. Members of the Horizon group along with members of the Allerton Fire Department and First Responders took it upon themselves to go literally door to door throughout the whole town and country doing well checks at least twice a day. Many people were without power for 2-3 days. With the approval of the city council, one of the town’s buildings was made available for people to stay. Volunteers came to the building and prepared breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Each night, there were at least 2 members from this team that stayed away from their home to spend the night with the families that were staying up town. With the information provided by Wayne county’s Emergency Management Coordinator, this team was able to provide information to lower income families of how to get assistance to repair power boxes that were torn away from their houses.
I believe that this is what Horizons is all about. Going out of your way to comfort someone else, to come together in a time of need, being neighborly to someone that you haven’t met before, checking in on elderly people-even though each time you do they refuse the help but are always glad to know that someone is watching out for them.