Giving Tuesday:  Appawlachia Sturdy – Oh My Canine!

Certainly one of many nicest of us I’ve met via this neighborhood is Rebecca Pepin, info anchor by day and founding father of Fetching Apparel on the facet.

We had the likelihood to perform Rebecca and Fetching Apparel inside the trip reward info various years previously, and now I’m honored to have this opportunity to share an unimaginable reward she’s striving to supply her neighborhood.

“Fetching Apparel is my passion enterprise,” she talked about, and he or she sure does pour passion into it. “My full-time job is anchor/reporter at WCYB and WEMT in Bristol, Virginia. It’s troublesome to elucidate what I seen out inside the space inside the days following Helene. Properties totally washed away or knocked off their foundations. Roads obliterated. Of us misplaced their lives. It was DEVASTATING, and the freeway to restoration will most likely be prolonged.”

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(All the images on this put up had been kindly supplied by Rebecca.)

“Our space is Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Unicoi County was hit arduous. Johnson County too, amongst others. Asheville, NC, is an hour and a half from my info station in Bristol, VA,” Rebecca outlined. “The Unicoi County, TN, Animal Shelter was destroyed, along with all of their supplies. Volunteers and workers had been able to get all the animals out safely. Brother Wolf Animal Rescue in Asheville, North Carolina was decimated!”

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Animal rescuers wanted to scramble to place the pets who had been of their shelters. Shelters that weren’t immediately hit received right here collectively and opened their doorways to help house animals. They collected donations and supplies for pet householders who misplaced the whole thing inside the flooding.

Rebecca wished to help.

“My buddy received right here up with the Appawlachia Sturdy idea, and we quickly went to work to create the tees and sweatshirts. We’re donating 100% of earnings from our Appawlachia Sturdy tees and sweatshirts to shelters affected by Helenenonetheless we actually give once more all yr prolonged by donating 20% of earnings from every purchase.”

YOU would possibly assist Rebecca current for the animals and different folks devastated by Helene. Click on on on this hyperlink or the image above to order an Appawlachia Sturdy tee and sweatshirt to ship 100% of the proceeds to native shelters. Since Rebecca lives inside the area and has “boots on the underside,” she is conscious of what’s needed and the place.

I can’t even take into consideration this devastation and what it will probably take to get higher.

I’m grateful for folk like Rebecca who care rather a lot for his or her communities.

Ponder selecting up a tee or sweatshirt to assist this worthy set off–and it’s an excellent current idea for the animals lover in your life!

Click on on proper right here to go to Fetching Apparel!

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