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Pilger Woman Meets People Rebuilding Home Leveled by Tornado

pilger-tornado-3PILGER, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska woman whose house was leveled by a tornado has met the volunteers who are rebuilding her home.

Alice Schultz of Pilger met the volunteers of the Mennonite Disaster Service for a meal Saturday. The Pennsylvania-based network had begun to rebuild her house that was damaged on June 16.

Schultz’s home is one of five that is being rebuilt by the network. A majority of the unpaid volunteers are famers from Iowa who are of the Amish and Mennonite faith. According to the on-site project director for the network, Marlin Gingerich, the volunteers rarely to get to meet the owners of the homes they rebuild.

The volunteers are being housed in the Norfolk City Auditorium for the next several months while they rebuild homes.

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