WILMINGTON — Families displaced from public housing due to an ongoing mold crisis will receive assistance furnishing their new units. The New Hanover Community…
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This article is contributed by Derek Macleod, Director of the New Hanover Disaster Coalition.
What is this and do we even need it? I heard those questions a lot in the early days post Hurricane Florence. Faith leaders, non profits and government agencies were all mobilizing, often scrambling, to respond to the challenges that the historic Florence rained upon New Hanover County in 2018. What was missing was a mechanism that centralized information and efforts to help us all respond efficiently without the most vulnerable falling through the cracks. Out of that need, our long term recovery group (LTRG), New Hanover Disaster Coalition, was born then baptized by fire. We didn’t invent anything new, LTRGs are found in counties all across the country. New Hanover County just didn’t have one. We weren’t sure we needed one. Don’t we have several hundred organizations all working to respond to our residents? Do we really need more meetings, acronyms, boards, funding req
A Lewis couple have been recounting their “desperate” struggle to secure their extended family a safe passage out of Ukraine to join them on the island.