Flood pulls people together to rebuild

Flood pulls people together to rebuild: "Flood pulls people together to rebuild

By Heather Yakin
Times Herald-Record
hyakin@th-record.com

Callicoon - Floodwaters don't care that people volunteered their time and effort trying to help others.

Tess McBeath is tired, and she and the rest of the Delaware Youth Center board are trying to figure out how to come up with $250,000 to repair flood damage, to fix up the hall and pavilion and the caretaker's cottage, to replace playground equipment.

They're nonprofit, all-volunteer and completely dependent on donations.

It's not just that she's the youth center's president and the Delaware town clerk, so she's dealing with disaster from all directions. It's also the strain of figuring out what comes next."