On two separate occasions in late September, Elmore County residents traveled to areas damaged by Hurricane Sally to provide much needed help.
Teams of local volunteers traveled to Daphne and Pensacola, Florida on the weekends of Sept. 18 and Sept. 25 as part of as part of the Montgomery area Helping Hands disaster relief effort.
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