Vance said she cooked food at her house and gave out every last plate by knocking on hotel rooms.
“My overall role in this, I have a caring heart. It doesn’t matter what the situation is,” she said.
Troy Brown Jr., who teaches U.S. government and economics at Greenwood High School, said he and other members of the Beta Rho and Beta Theta chapters of the Omega Psi Phi, Inc. fraternity, began to volunteer last week by filling out sandbags.
Troy Brown Jr., a teacher at Greenwood High School, lifts a box of food at East Elementary. (Courtesy of Troy Brown Jr.)
They later worked to help evacuate residents from the Glendale subdivision, which experienced some of the worst flooding in Leflore County.
Brown said food and clothing giveaways have been held at the Leflore County Civic Center and East Elementary and added that there’s still a demand from the community for such items.
Brown, 31, who’s lived in Leflore County nearly all his life, said last week’s flooding was “the worst I’ve ever seen it.”
Brown noted that it isn’t just he and his fraternity brothers who have volunteered their time and resources to provide assistance but a large number of people in the community, including teachers and staff with the Greenwood Leflore Consolidated School District, the Greenwood restaurant Tasty Sipz and other local businesses.
Brown recalled how he had seen numerous “Greenwood Strong” signs placed throughout town at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
However, last week was the first time “I’ve ever seen Greenwood strong in action,” he said.
- Contact Gerard Edic at 581-7239 or gedic@gwcommonwealth.com.
