Uniting for a good cause

On Sunday night Mother Nature came to Ritzville. In the morning light we saw the aftermath of her fury and were left with are jaws dropped. The night of the storm, Larry Swift stopped by the Fire Station and told me that the City might need help in the morning.

Monday morning I grabbed a saw and asked him where to start. He told me to go to the City Park and start cutting. I got there about 7 a.m. and for the next hour, I was by myself. I thought, it will take a month to clean this up by myself. Soon a farmer stopped by and said that maybe he and other farmers could help. By early afternoon an...