Epping Wraps Its Arms Around Family In Need
June 30, 2008
The sounds of paintbrush strokes, wood splitters and buzzing chain saws filled the air outside the home of Dan and Debi Bennis.
With little time to keep up their home as they care for their disabled daughter, the Bennises got a big helping hand Saturday when more than 40 volunteers determined to make a difference showed up at their door.
“This is kind of like Epping’s version of �Extreme Home Makeover,’” said Gregg Nye, an Epping police officer who organized the project with Karen Louis, an Epping emergency medical technician.
Crews armed with “Indulgent Indigo” paint, brushes, and lots of equipment arrived at the 31 Plumer Road home early Saturday morning to begin painting and cutting up four cords of wood from the dozen large trees that littered their yard after Public Service of New Hampshire cut them down to make way for larger utility poles.
“It’s overwhelming,” Dan Bennis said as he watched the volunteers working so hard to help him, his wife, and his 15-year-old daughter, Dani, who was born with spina bifida and has undergone 22 surgeries.
The help came at a time when the Bennises face three mortgage payments and other medical expenses related to their daughter’s care.
Read the full story from Jason Schreiber in the Union Leader
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