[Scoutmaster]

I would encourage FR members to consider helping the Appalachia Service Project financially or with a long weekend of their labor.

ASP helps make fairly major home repairs for those in the Appalachian region who cannot afford to do so.

Many of these people lost their jobs in the mines several years ago and are living in abject poverty. Over past years, I've helped rebuild homes for families with children who were living in tents because their homes had burned and they couldn't afford to rebuild them; installed indoor plumbing and a wheelchair ramp for an 82-year-old woman trapped inside her home for several years; and similar stories.

There are also week-long summer projects for youth groups. Participants come from every state east of the Mississippi River.

You will be touched spiritually.

[George from New England]

This freeper asks:

If we help out these unemployed idiots that voted for Obama in ‘08. After our help won’t they just keep voting ‘D’ anyway.

The help has to come after they suffer and lose the will to vote ‘D’. Right ?!