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It’s a crisis that isn’t always noticeable at first glance, but thousands of students in the Tampa Bay area are considered homeless.
Lithia veteran recovers from hand injury by making pinewood desks for students e-learning from home Marine Corps vet Donnie Dewey aiming for 100 desks Lithia veteran makes home desks for grade-schoolers and last updated 2021-01-12 08:08:57-05 LITHIA, Fla. â Donnie Dewey is a Marine Corps veteran, a man dedicated to serving and helping others. When the Lithia family man injured his right hand in a gruesome woodworking accident not long ago, he was laid low. "It was very difficult to overcome," Dewey says. Donnie works for Randstad, a good corporate gig. He didn't need to enter his home w...
By MARLENE SOKOL | Tampa Bay Times | Published: December 22, 2020 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. LITHIA, Fla. (Tribune News Service) — Donnie Dewey learned woodworking from his stepfather, and it became a passion for him. On Facebook, he saw stories about people who were building desks for distance-learning students during the pandemic. I should do that, he thought. Then: I am going to do that. He ...