A business is overwhelmed with community support for its efforts to bring comfort to those impacted by Hurricane Helene.
MONROE COUNTY, Pa. — A room inside Gillow’s Tax Service in East Stroudsburg is filled with donations to support the people hit by Hurricane Helene.
“The overwhelming support from this community to help someone they don’t even know is incredible,” said Kevin Gillow.
Dawn and Kevin Gillow own the business.
They say the donations will be sent to Tennessee. A place the couple says their hearts are drawn to, especially the Westgate Resort.
“We own a timeshare, and we decided to take a week to spend at the timeshare, and during that is when low and behold, Hurricane Helene hit. Where we were staying wasn’t affected. We had the winds and rains but no damage,” said Dawn.
But just 30 minutes from the resort in the Newport area of Tennessee, there was complete devastation. The Gillows learned that many of the resort employees who live there lost everything.
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