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Monday June 12, 2:40 AM

9/11 Aid Group to Help Rebuild Ind. Church

A New York aid group formed in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks will help rebuild a southern Indiana church destroyed last year by a deadly tornado.

About 30 members of the New York Says Thank You Foundation plan to go to DeGonia Springs on Sept. 11 to help rebuild the Baker Chapel United Methodist Church, said Jeff Parness, foundation director.

The church was destroyed Nov. 6 when a tornado with winds topping 200 mph ripped through the village about 20 miles northeast of Evansville, killing three people. Tornadoes killed 25 people that day in southwest Indiana.

Parness, whose business partner was killed on Sept. 11, said the foundation helps a community touched by disaster each year on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

Foundation volunteers have worked in Harbison Canyon, Calif., where wildfires destroyed dozens of homes, and in parts of Louisiana and Mississippi ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.

 


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