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Monday’s tornado toppled trees along Taylors Mill Road in Byron.
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Trees were uprooted along Mosley Dixon Road in Peach County by Monday night’s tor
nado.
Power restored after tornado
Destroyed credit union vault, ATM, info safe
From staff reports
One victim of Monday’s
tornado in Peach County
was Robins Federal Credit
Union’s Fort Valley Branch
off Ga. 49, which was demol
ished Monday evening by a
tornado that touched down
in Peach County.
Security has been guard
ing the branch and its intact
vaults and ATMs since the
incident occurred.
Robins Federal Credit
Union wants to assure all of
its members that no mem
ber information has been
compromised or lost. Robins
Federal is working with
local contractors on clean up
and salvage.
All other locations are
open for normal business
hours. The closest open
branches to the Fort Valley
area are 321 Perry Parkway
RED CROSS
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the local chapter and the
Macon Chapter of the Red
Cross are in discussions
about where to locate such a
shelter and when to open it
if needed.
“Our greatest need right
now is money,” said
Carchedi. “We do not have
the infrastructure to handle
small donations of food or
clothing. What we do is go
down and evaluate the peo
ple’s needs on an individual
basis. We decide what food
they need, what clothing
they need, and their shelter
needs. To do that in a timely
fashion we need to have
money to purchase what is
needed on the spot.”
Carchedi said you can
donate money by calling 1-
800-HELPNOW or go to the
Red Cross Web site at
www.redcross.org. You can
also send a check to the local
chapter at 346 Corder Road,
Warner Robins, GA 31088.
“There is also a great need
for blood donations,”
Carchedi said. “There are
lots of people in hospitals
down there and they will
need blood and need it fast.”
There will be a Red Cross
LOOK
in Perry, 901 Ga. 96 in
Warner Robins, and 319
Walnut St. in Montezuma.
Meanwhile, Flint Energies
restored power early
Tuesday morning to the
final 50 customers who had
lost electricity due to the
tornado.
On Wednesday, Flint
Energies sent line techni
cians and equipment to help
restore power to Mississippi
residents following the
destruction caused by
Hurricane Katrina. The
crews will be assisting
Central Electric Power
Association in Carthage,
Miss.
Central Electric Power
Association serves 33,000
member-consumers north
east of Jackson, Miss.
Following the storm, only
300 of Central Electric
blood drive at Wal-Mart on
Watson Boulevard in
Warner Robins from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m. on Monday. There
will be another one on Sept.
8 at the Lowe’s on Watson
Boulevard in Warner Robins
from noon to 5 p.m. A third
will be held at Belk
Matthews in the Galleria
Mall in Centerville on Sept.
9 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The chapter is also hold
ing a yard sale to help raise
funds for their disaster
assistance services at its
Corder Road office from 9
PVO helping Katrina victims
Perry Volunteer Outreach is establishing a relief effort to
collect items to send to the Gulf Coast area devastated by
Hurricane Katrina. PVO will accept canned goods, paper
products, baby food and diapers as well as monetary
donations.
Checks should be made payable to Perry Volunteer
Outreach and designated for Gulf Coast relief.
No clothing donations will be accepted.
Items and checks may be brought to the PVO head
quarters at 801 Commerce St. in Perry, Monday through
Friday, 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
“We all know in our hearts that those affected by this ter
rible storm would respond in kind if our area was in need,”
said Riley Hunt of Perry Volunteer Outreach.
For more information, call (478) 218-2274.
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Power Association’s con
sumers had power.
Flint Energies waited
until Wednesday to leave to
assure that power was on to
all of its member-consumers
before sending these crews
out of state. Releasing the
crews to travel to
Mississippi will not affect
new service or repairs for
Flint members.
Georgia electric member
ship corporations (EMCs),
including Flint Energies,
are sending a total of 230
linemen to assist in power
restoration efforts in
Louisiana, Mississippi and
Alabama. The deployment
of help is part of a mutual
aid agreement shared by the
nation’s nearly 1,000 elec
tric cooperatives to help one
another in times of cata
strophic natural disaster.
a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 10.
Carchedi also said that
anyone who has a relative
living in the affected area
who has a medical or mental
condition or is in the mili
tary, the Red Cross can help
track them down - just call
the local office and let them
know. The number at the
local office is (478) 923-
6332.
Carchedi said that the
national Red Cross has
already opened more than
200 shelters in Mississippi,
Louisiana, Alabama, Texas,
Tennessee and Florida.
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