Paying it forward Volunteers rebuild Iowa boy scout camp
Farm Bureau members serve meals to volunteers working to rebuild an Iowa boy scout camp destroyed by a tornado.
camps also came along. In all, more than 1,000 people worked on rebuilding the camp and putting up a chapel onsite.
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“We look for a special project each year, one that will help a community where a natural disaster has taken place,� says Jeff Parness, founder of New York Says Thank You.
fter the devastation of the 9/11 terrorist attack, thousands of Americans donated  their  time, money and equipment to help with the recovery and clean-up efforts at the World Trade Center in New York City. Now a group of New York firefighters and survivors have decided to pay it forward. Over Labor Day weekend, more than 220 members of the New York Says Thank You Foundation descended on the western Iowa town of Missouri Valley to help rebuild the Little Sioux Scout Ranch. The camp had been devastated by a tornado in June 2008, killing four scouts and leveling the camp. Those arriving from New York included survivors of the World Trade Center and their families, schoolchildren who had been affected, Ground Zero construction workers and firefighters. In addition, another approximately 700 people who had been the recipient of the foundation’s past work
In past years, the New York Says Thank You group has worked at tornado sites in Indiana, Texas and Kansas; at the sites of the San Diego wildfires; and at clean-up efforts for Hurricane Katrina. “We made a decision to get together and pay it forward each 9/11 anniversary weekend,� Parness says. “Ultimately, it’s not so much about 9/11 as it is about the hope of 9/12.�
Many Iowa groups were also involved in feeding the crowd. The Harrison County Cattlemen grilled burgers at the Missouri Valley Fairgrounds on Saturday evening, with southwestern Iowa Farm Bureau groups and Iowa Farm Bureau putting up the money to do so. “When...the scouts who survived march shoulder to shoulder with firefighters who survived 9/11, it will transform these families,� Parness says. “It makes them a part of a larger family of survivors.� Van Kooten is a freelance writer from Pella.
many of the recipients of that site move along the next year to help with the following project.
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Volunteers with the group New York Says Thank You rebuilt a chapel destroyed by a deadly tornado that struck the Little Sioux Boy Scout camp in western Iowa last summer.
As each work camp takes place,
The chapel that was built at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch used re-claimed timber from the tornado damage. In addition, volunteers worked on restoring the trails that overlook the chapel, put in new landscaping and painted existing buildings for the 1,800-acre wilderness tract.
story by valerie van kooten photo by terri queck-matzie
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