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Can i request a box for delivery? 104 s. Madison st. Spencer
So sorry, just seen your message. I will pass your address onto our Circulation manager and he can get a box out there for you. Thanks!
We haven’t been able to get the Hub City Times for a few weeks again as nobody seems to be getting in Pittsville. We used to get at the house but no longer get there either. We had written to you before about it and then we did get for a while but now back to not getting again. We can read online but not quite the same as getting actual paper.
Hi Thank you for contacting us. Unfortunately we have been unable to find a carrier for the Pittsville area. If you know anyone who would love to help us out, please let us know. We would love to get the newspaper in your hands!
I wonder if you would be interested in running a brief story about a PBS special that should be of interest to a significant number of your readers. It premiers on PBS on 9-25-2018 and I am in the main credits as the Burns’s team’s “Special Historical Consultant.” The reason I am contacting you is that my family lived in Marshfield for 22 years. Something along these lines might be interesting, “Long-time Marshfield resident W. Bruce Fye was the “Special Historical Consultant” on a two-hour Ken Burns film The Mayo Clinic: Faith – Hope – Science that will premier on PBS on September 25, 2018 at 8 p.m. Central time. Fye moved to Marshfield in 1978 to launch Marshfield Clinic’s echocardiography laboratory. He served as chair of the Cardiology Department from 1981 to 1999. A former president of the American College of Cardiology and the American Association for the History of Medicine, he joined the Mayo Clinic in 2000.
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/mayo-clinic/coming-soon/
I was wondering if was possible to get your paper delivered? I live at W1599 Dove Rd, Loyal. Some of my neighbors get it but not us. It would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.
Thank you for contacting us and letting us know. I will forward your address on to the circulation manager
Could I submit an article about an event planned at Colby Middle School? If so, what is your preferred format?
I am so sorry! Just seen this. For future it is [email protected]
Hi Kris,
I was unable to attend the presentation in Colby regarding the shootout in Withee involving the Krueger family. Is your presentation available on-line or can I get a copy of it any other way?
My grandfathers were both first generation German emigrants the they told me of several similar incidents.
Thanks!
Randy Lueth
Marshfield, WI
The book Marshfield Memories The Early Years I have had a lot of people ask if they can buy a copy of it. Is there a place for them to order? Thanks
We do have them for sale at our office.
Hub City Team:
Here is a little history about Compassion In Action. We are a non-profit 501C3 based in Marshfield. We’ve been doing disaster relief since 2004. We gather a team of volunteers, raise some money and leave for storm ravaged areas all over the United States. Our history includes multiple relief trips for: Hurricane Charley, Hurricane Katrina, Joplin Tornado, Moore, OK Tornado, Hurricane Sandy, Illinois Tornado, Ashland Flooding, Hurricane Harvey, Elroy Flooding and are now deploying for New Bern, North Carolina. We work long, hard, hot days, gutting houses, cleaning up debris, and tree removal in an effort to bring hope to those in need.
Would you ever consider doing an interview with us? Please read our upcoming Hurricane Florence relief plans!
Hurricane Florence Relief
Hurricane Florence’s water has receded, the rain stopped, winds diminished, and yet New Bern, NC residents and thousands of other Americans are still suffering! It’s BOOTS ON THE GROUND once again for Compassion In Action. We are doing a two fold effort:
1-Oct 12-13 we will be set up in the Shopko Parking Lot in Marshfield, WI to generate donations for victims of Hurricane Florence. Their greatest need is finances. Compassion In Action is a 501C3 that has no administrative costs or paid staff so 100% of your donations go directly to helping those in need. You can send checks to: M225 Turtle Ridge Rd, Marshfield, WI 54449 or on line at http://www.mycompassion.info.
2-Oct 26-Nov 4 we are taking a team of volunteers to New Bern, NC, pictured below. If you read the article you will learn that as of September 30, a 76 year old woman is still in need of her house to be gutted. She is not alone! She’s been told it will be months before they can get to her! Meanwhile the MOLD continues to thrive and grow! On our trip we will be cutting trees, hauling brush and gutting homes. It is heartbreaking to look into the eyes of someone that has lost everything. At that point it’s more than a story on the news or in the newspaper.
It’s real people with real lives just like you and I. When our team is about to leave we hear comments like, “I saw God!” or “You have restored my faith in humanity and God!” Something in our hearts gets shifted when we serve those hurting. It’s in reaching out to others in their time of need that we encounter a living God. We become His hands and we see His heart!
For more info email: [email protected]
Newspaper article from September 30 in New Bern, NC!
New Bern, North Carolina residents say Hurricane Florence made housing crisis worse
SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2018 RAIN AUGUSTINE NEWS
NEW BERN, N.C. — Nearly two weeks ago, when Hurricane Florence pummeled the Carolinas, the storm destroyed the trailer Army veteran Paganda Howard lived in with her husband and two daughters. Now she’s like many others in this historic colonial town, forced to live with family in cramped and outright hazardous conditions.
Howard is currently staying at her sister’s home, where a tree slumps against the roof and walls are warped by water damage. The family of four has joined her sister and six nephews, crowding into the modest three-bedroom home where clothing sits in wet piles and mold appears to coat the bathtub and vents.
Many families are forced to live in unsanitary or unsafe conditions because they have no other choice right now. But Howard said finding adequate housing in New Bern has always been a challenge — the storm only served to show how dire circumstances have become for some.
“When the flood came, it just showed you [the landlord] who wasn’t coming to repair anything or that the mold was already in the house … The storm just made it worse,” Howard said.
About a third of households in Craven County, where New Bern is the county seat, are considered cost-burdened by the North Carolina Housing Coalition. This means more than 30 percent of a family’s budget is committed to rent and utilities, and that’s because the average rent of a modest two-bedroom apartment in Craven County is nearly 20 percent higher than what the average renter here can afford, according to 2016 data collected by the coalition.
It was under those circumstances that more than 1,200 people fled their homes for shelters after a mandatory evacuation was declared in the area ahead of Hurricane Florence’s arrival in New Bern.
“The trouble in Eastern North Carolina, which has historically been a problem, is that the housing stock down there is so bad,” said Bill Rowe, the general counsel and deputy director of advocacy at North Carolina Justice Center. “It’s old or it’s been damaged or ruined by things like storms, and there isn’t a lot of new housing being built.”
Numerous residents whose homes had been damaged or destroyed told NBC News that they did not go to the shelters because they heard that many were overcrowded and unsanitary.
Multiple people alleged that black mold had been discovered in Trent Park Elementary School, which served as a shelter for about 50 people until it was closed Wednesday. New Bern Mayor Dana Outlaw,
the American Red Cross and Craven County officials all said they had not seen any evidence of black mold inside any of the shelters, however.
Most residents in need are now using the West New Bern Recreation Center as a new shelter so that the Craven County School District can work to reopen the schools that were damaged in the storm. About 200 people currently remain at the recreation center or another shelter also run by theAmerican Red Cross, Outlaw said.
“A lot of them were able to go back home,” Outlaw said of the 1,200 residents who used shelters, but he noted that 700 homes still could not be connected to the city’s power because water damage was so bad that it could be a fire hazard.
“Short term, we do have a problem, and we’re going to address it,” said the mayor, who has worked as a real estate appraiser for the past 40 years. “But we have to work with [the Federal Emergency Management Agency]. The amount of money that it’s going to take to restore New Bern, North Carolina, is going to require FEMA money. It’d be crazy for us to go out and spend New Bern money, and then ask for FEMA reimbursement and they don’t reimburse us.”
EMA did not respond to multiple requests for comment on what its temporary-housing timeline for New Bern and other storm-damaged communities currently looks like.
Outlaw said he only would characterize New Bern as facing a “housing shortage because we’ve had a hurricane,” but not all city officials agreed with that assessment.
Alderwoman Sabrina Bengel said the city has long struggled to provide affordable housing to its residents, particularly to its low-income population. She said that she hopes that the city can use this storm as an opportunity to help the 19.1 percent of its population who live in poverty.
“We were looking at that prior to the storm, and we realized we had a shortage,” she said. “This is going to speed up our process and allow us to try to do more. It’s my number one priority as an elected official right now.”
Bengel said because they have to wait for FEMA to work out a plan, the city can only offer transitional housing assistance in the form of money for a hotel or apartment. But both are nearly impossible to acquire in New Bern at the moment, with some hotels booked through mid-October.
“I wouldn’t have had nowhere to stay because you can’t find nothing here,” said Lois Cantwell, 76, who is living with her daughter after flash flooding stranded her, along with her husband and granddaughter, in their attic for 12 hours before they were rescued. “I would have had to leave town to find something.”
Cantwell isn’t alone in that experience. Florence did not discriminate, and also affected the wealthy sections of New Bern.
Anne Schout, who worked as a chemist at the Department of Agriculture until she retired, lived in the historic district in the same 8,000-square-foot mansion once owned by the founder of Pepsi — a beverage first born in one of the shops here in 1893. But these days, Schout is instead staying at a charming bed and breakfast because the flooding also drove her family from their home.
She said that circumstances are dire, but that her family is very lucky.
“Everybody loves this town, and they’ve banded together,” Schout said. “I think it’ll come back. But I think it’s going to take awhile. And the higher socioeconomic group is going to come back faster.”
Though neither Schout nor Cantwell can return to their homes yet, Cantwell’s circumstances mean it will take her longer to get back to normal.
As of now, the floors and walls of Cantwell’s home, where she’d lived in since 1975, are still inundated with mold. She said a contractor told her it would be months until he could work on her home — and that prices would be high.
“I got a shell of a house,” Cantwell said. “I just don’t have no inside.”
Hi I was wondering if it would be possible to get your paper again? We used to get it but not for along time now. our address is: 5523 Co. Rd N, Arpin Wi. 54410.
thank you,
Karen Lee