Down on the Bayou

Sadie Stone ’07 down on the bayou
Sadie Stone ’07 down on the bayou

Talk about going forth to serve! Sadie Stone ’07, is in her second year with AmeriCorps NCCC and leading her own nine-member team, Wolf 3. So far, she’s trained as a woodland firefighter, worked on the Mississippi Gulf Coast with Habitat for Humanity, fought invasive species in the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve, rebuilt and finished homes for elderly/disabled families who were victims of contractor fraud in New Orleans, and moved President Calvin Coolidge’s personal artifacts from his attic to a new museum and cleared and weeded hedgerows at the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site in Plymouth, Vt. – and that’s just a sampling.

As of her last report, she was in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, living at a church and working at the Bay Area Food Bank sorting and compiling 40-pound boxes of food for families living in 22 counties stretching across Alabama, Mississippi and the Florida panhandle.

Selfless service like hers deserves an encouraging word – drop her a line via the “comments” link, por favor.