Senator Roberts Taking On 100-Mile Bike Trek For Victims A Year After Humphreys Flood

Senator Roberts Taking On 100-Mile Bike Trek For Victims A Yr After Humphreys Flood

Roberts will donate $10,000 in marketing campaign funds for flood reduction

ROBERTSON, HUMPHREYS COUNTY TENNESSEE: (Smokey Barn Information) – State Senator Kerry Roberts (R-Springfield)

introduced at this time the small print for his 100-mile bicycle experience to lift cash and consciousness for victims on the one-year anniversary of the lethal flooding in Waverly and Humphreys County. His experience will start on the Robertson County Courthouse and finish on the Humphreys County Courthouse the place he’ll current a $10,000 verify to United Method for flood victims.

“My objective is to focus consideration on the individuals and companies of Humphreys County who’re nonetheless struggling within the aftermath of the devastating flood a yr in the past,” mentioned Senator Roberts. “As we had been reminded by the latest flooding in Kentucky, lives are devastated by such a catastrophic occasion and rebuilding can take years. We have to let the individuals of Humphreys County know we’ve got not forgotten them.”

Roberts, who’s operating unopposed for re-election to the Tennessee Senate, is donating $10,000 in marketing campaign funds to the United Method of Humphreys County’s fund for flood victims.

“With no opponent on this election, I needed to make use of the cash to assist flood victims as an alternative of sitting in a checking account for the following election,” Roberts defined.

Following Saturday’s experience, Senator Roberts will take part in Sunday’s memorial companies remembering the lives misplaced within the flood. A morning memorial service might be held at Waverly Church of Christ on Sunday at 10 am adopted by a night memorial service at Waverly Central Excessive Faculty at 6 pm.

Experience Particulars

When: Saturday, August 20, 2022

Official Begin: 9:10 am, Robertson County Courthouse, Springfield, TN

End: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Humphreys County Courthouse, Waverly, TN

Particular Observe: The ultimate 11 miles of the experience will comply with the Hint Creek from McEwen to Waverly, the place a lot of the devastation occurred. Roberts will experience into Waverly on E. Most important Avenue to the Courthouse in remembrance of the 20 kids and adults who perished within the flood.

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