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UM Flood Buckets, Volunteers Help in Clean-Up
6/22/2009
Flood buckets collected from United Methodists during the Western PA Annual Conference session June 11-14 were put to good use less than a week later when severe storms caused flooding in Pittsburgh’s eastern suburbs. In the 10 days following the flood, 32 volunteers from 12 United Methodist churches volunteered a total of 260 work hours to help residents., according to Frank Bloise, who worked with his wife the Rev. Cyndi Bloise, pastor of Center Ave. UMC, to coordinate volunteers in...