Photo: Mayfield-Graves Fuller Center for Housing Board Chairman Dave Wright speaks as Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (right) and others look on Tuesday in Mayfield, Kentucky. Kentucky governor announces $4 million for new Fuller Center covenant partner’s tornado recovery efforts MAYFIELD, Kentucky — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear paid a visit to the area hardest hit by […]
Amish-built storage sheds set stage for long-term tornado recovery work in Kentucky While The Fuller Center for Housing is finalizing plans for a long-term recovery partner in tornado-impacted communities of Kentucky, the Fuller Center Disaster ReBuilders have been on the ground evaluating needs and preparing to launch their own base of operations. One of the […]
(Photo: Tiffany Robinson’s home is going up at the site where a tornado destroyed the home she shared with her parents, who were killed in the tornado. Tiffany was badly injured and later learned seven members of her extended family also died that day.) A total of 23 people were killed on March 3, 2019, […]
Misty Baker and her daughters were living in a mobile home when a massive tornado struck the rural Alabama community of Beauregard on March 3, 2019. Though their home was massively damaged, they continued to live in it in the months afterward, stepping around buckets that caught rain coming through the roof and mopping up […]
Danny Barren knew spending his spring break serving alongside fellow Wittenberg University students with the Chattahoochee Fuller Center Project would be a challenge — especially because he was coming off of knee surgery and was just beginning to get back on his feet. But when an EF-4 struck nearby Beauregard, Alabama, just after the group […]
The Hallmark Channel has announced a $150,000 donation to sponsor three homes during the 2019 Millard Fuller Legacy Build, when 10 homes are scheduled to be built during the Sept. 29-Oct. 4 blitz build. That will bring the total of new Fuller Center for Housing homes in tornado-ravaged Beauregard, Alabama, to 15 since the March […]
Less than two weeks after volunteers began raising walls on three houses in Beauregard, Alabama, the homes were dedicated Thursday morning in a day full of emotions expressed through beaming smiles, hugs and tears of joy. It was much-needed burst of hope in a community that has been reeling ever since the deadly March 3 […]
After speaking with Chattahoochee Fuller Center Project Executive Director Kim Roberts, The Valley Times-News has a full report on three homes going up next week in tornado-ravaged Beauregard, Alabama, including information about the first three homeowner partners and their experience in the March 3 disaster. The report also includes a look ahead to the 2019 […]
