Giving Tuesday: Appawlachia Robust - Oh My Canine!

One of many nicest folks I’ve met via this group is Rebecca Pepin, information anchor by day and founding father of Fetching Attire on the aspect.

We had the possibility to function Rebecca and Fetching Attire within the vacation present information a number of years in the past, and now I’m honored to have this chance to share an unimaginable present she’s striving to offer her group.

“Fetching Attire is my ardour venture,” she stated, and he or she certain does pour ardour into it. “My full-time job is anchor/reporter at WCYB and WEMT in Bristol, Virginia. It’s tough to explain what I noticed out within the discipline within the days following Helene. Properties utterly washed away or knocked off their foundations. Roads obliterated. Folks misplaced their lives. It was DEVASTATING, and the street to restoration will likely be lengthy.”

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(All the pictures on this submit have been kindly supplied by Rebecca.)

“Our area is Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Unicoi County was hit onerous. Johnson County too, amongst others. Asheville, NC, is an hour and a half from my information station in Bristol, VA,” Rebecca defined. “The Unicoi County, TN, Animal Shelter was destroyed, together with all of their provides. Volunteers and staff have been capable of get all of the animals out safely. Brother Wolf Animal Rescue in Asheville, North Carolina was decimated!”

Animal rescuers needed to scramble to put the pets who have been of their shelters. Shelters that weren’t instantly hit got here collectively and opened their doorways to assist home animals. They collected donations and provides for pet house owners who misplaced every thing within the flooding.

Rebecca needed to assist.

“My good friend got here up with the Appawlachia Robust thought, and we rapidly went to work to create the tees and sweatshirts. We’re donating one hundred pc of earnings from our Appawlachia Robust tees and sweatshirts to shelters affected by Helenehowever we truly give again all yr lengthy by donating 20% of earnings from each buy.”

YOU may also help Rebecca present for the animals and other people devastated by Helene. Click on on this hyperlink or the picture above to order an Appawlachia Robust tee and sweatshirt to ship one hundred pc of the proceeds to native shelters. Since Rebecca lives within the space and has “boots on the bottom,” she is aware of what’s wanted and the place.

I can’t even think about this devastation and what it should take to get better.