Do you know who helps the elders of the Mountain Communities when they can’t make their social security stretch to cover food and the heating bill in winter when the doctor says they have to take an expensive new medicine?

Do you know who helps the young families here when they are suddenly laid off from their job? Or who coordinates and hosts parenting classes? And who helps hard-working single parents get back into school? Who helps your neighbors secure health insurance and childcare? Who helps low income people get assistance in filling out their tax returns?

Do you know who sponsors support groups for caregivers of elders with dementia, maintains a local food bank and assists desperate families to access family law services? Who devoted ten years to training youth leaders to make a drug free community…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Rick and Phyllis Throckmorton with the Rainey Bennett painting they won in the 2018 Family Resource Center benefit auction.

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This is part of the September 13, 2019 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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