Source: Dan Gerlach, NEWS & OBSERVER, 10/6/17


Last Oct. 9, I arrived at the Golden LEAF Foundation offices on the banks of the Stoney Creek, a major tributary of the Tar River in Rocky Mount, to find that the water had risen precipitously and with enormous power, moving boulders and washing away the access road to one of our buildings. And though this time Rocky Mount did not feel the brunt of Hurricane Matthew, I prayed for those in Lumberton, Kinston, Princeville, Fayetteville, Fair Bluff and other communities in its direct path.

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