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      <!-- Schema.org Tags --> <div itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/NewsArticle'> <meta itemprop='articleSection' content="News "> <meta itemprop='dateline' content="Farmington,Minnesota 55024"> <meta itemprop='articleBody' content="&lt;p&gt;The small splash a pebble creates when tossed into the pond create ripples in a body of water.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Farmington community will soon be ripples of goodwill that will be delivered 1,350 miles away to the small tourist island town of Port Aransas, Texas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The town is facing extreme personal and property loss from Hurricane Harvey as it was literally torn apart by high winds and devastating flooding.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;We thought we need to do something as a community and involve the other churches, and it started from there and we thought what if we could get a whole community together,&quot; said the Rev. Karen Evenson, pastor of Faith United Methodist Church in Farmington.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after Hurricane Harvey hit, Evenson and Andy Herzberg, pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Farmington, were talking about engaging all Farmington churches in a community-wide relief effort.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That is how the Drop in the Bucket campaign made its first ripple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Farmington Mayor Todd Larson contacted Port Aransas and talked with civic leaders. Larson said Port Aransas families will need to dig deep to begin to move forward and rebuild their lives after total loss of security, property, schools and work and their hometown community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All Farmington residents, faith leaders, schools and the business community are uniting in the Drop in the Bucket campaign effort to personally deliver cleaning supplies to the Texas community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This has, I think, ignited a little more connection between the pastors and the community to try to get us all back to talking with each other and realizing we are nice people,&quot; Herzberg said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;All churches were invited and we wanted to make sure we went beyond the churches and involved the greater community,&quot; Evenson added.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;subhead&quot;&gt;Riptide of generosity&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The ripple continued when Herzberg contacted his close friend Grant Beyl from Thrivent Financial in Farmington. Thrivent Financial-Minnesota Valley Associates in Farmington donated $10,000 for the Drop in the Bucket hurricane recovery initiative.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;He (Grant Beyl) gave seed money and he made a connection to a trucking company,&quot; Herzberg said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wayne Transport in Rosemount has agreed to donate a truck, a trailer and a driver who will drive down all the donations to Port Aransas by mid-November.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;We have been really excited to see everybody get on board with the project and we are excited to really help another Texas community that needs us,&quot; said Amy Flom, office manager with Thrivent in Farmington.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Soon Farmington's Pellicci Ace Hardware got involved by putting together buckets of cleaning supplies that will be delivered in the Drop in the Bucket campaign.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amanda Stender, general manager with Pellicci Ace Hardware, is organizing this effort from the storefront. Stender said besides the Farmington Ace store, Ace Hardware stores in Eagan and Zumbrota are accepting donations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The public can buy cleaning supplies for $25 that includes garbage bags, gloves, masks, paper towels, window cleaner and other cleaning supplies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;At that point, it exploded and I said, 'We need to get everyone at the table,'&quot; Herzberg added.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Farmington Public Schools have joined in the community effort and will fundraise through Oct. 17.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Farmington Elementary Principal Kim Bollesen said all five elementary schools are on board with the community outreach. Educator Jen Ventz informed students with a PowerPoint this week about the Drop in the Bucket campaign.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Riverview Elementary Principal Kim Grengs shared a parent story and photos from the hurricane with students. Schools will be fundraising this week in different ways like raising $1 to wear a favorite hat on Hat Day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This can be a powerful way to teach students how to give back with spare change that may be a drop in the bucket, but together the pocket change can translate to support for a community more than a 1,000 miles away, Bollesen said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;subhead&quot;&gt;Community campaign&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I think the premise of everything is that we wanted to reach out and we wanted to reach out as a community, and we wanted the community to be able to come together,&quot; Evenson said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Josh Solinger, president of Farmington Business Association, said he has already seen a lot of generosity. As the business-to-business sales representative at Ace Hardware, Solinger said, &quot;I would expect us to hit 100 buckets easily&quot; from the 77 FBA members.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Besides cleaning supplies, residents need simple living supplies like paper plates, silverware, bedding, toasters and coffee pots, Larson said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cheryline Elliott, owner of Dollar &amp;amp; Up in Tamarack Ridge Center in Farmington, sells discounted paper products, toiletries and cleaning supplies. She hopes local resident will come to purchase those items to fill the truck. Orders can be placed online at the Farmington store at www.dollar-and-up.com.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I think it is an awesome idea because we need more charity and more love, and you never know when you might be in need yourself,&quot; Elliott said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Residents can call Pellicci Ace Hardware in Farmington to donate on the phone, make a donation at the store or at a local church. Other paper products can be dropped off at City Hall and Farmington police headquarters off Pilot Knob Road.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;We all are putting in a lot of work because it is good cause,&quot; Larson said. &quot;I can't image going through what these people are going through because in Minnesota if we get a bad snowstorm, we shovel ourselves out in a day or two.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The timeline for the Drop in the Bucket truck to leave Farmington is around Nov. 15.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;It depends on how fast we can fill the truck,&quot; Larson said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Herzberg has been impressed by the community effort.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I think one of the kind of neat things we have seen is how the mayor, the churches, and the businesses are all doing what they do best to keep this project going,&quot; he said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describing the mercy arms of the churches, Herzberg added: &quot;This is what it looks like to be a Christian — we reach out with mercy and we are getting the word out there.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Port Aransas devastated by Hurricane Harvey&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Piles of storm debris from Hurricane Harvey left Port Aransas resembling a war zone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Damaged buildings, toppled cars and pieces of homes line streets that are hardly even recognizable to the southern Texas island town.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Farmington is adopting Port Aransas in its community Drop in the Bucket campaign. The island tourist destination has a population of 3,800 residents. The largest nearby city is near Corpus Christi and the town is 18 miles long and a couple miles wide. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After Hurricane Harvey hit a few weeks back with fierce winds and heavy rain, the aftermath left the city in what mayor calls complete devastation. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mayor Charles Bujan, 73, said 85 percent of the town’s residential and business community is either destroyed or substantially damaged in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“My family has lived on the island since 1885, so we have seen numerous hurricanes, and this is the worst we have ever seen,” he said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The town lost most homes, churches, businesses and all the schools and most residents who make a livelihood from working off shore or in a tourist industry are no longer employed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now living in Corpus Christi, Bujan lost his home, but his focus in now on his fellow residents and making sure they get all the support they need to rebuild their lives. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“But we are not rebuilding now — we are still in recovery,” Bujan said. “We have so much rubble, 188,000 cubic yards of debris that needs to be removed and we have neighborhoods with a quarter of a million cubic yards of debris to be disposed of.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tourist town has almost come to a halt because of the storm’s devastation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“One any given year, we have more than 5 million visitors a year with tourists,” Bujan said. Most days there are thousands on the island living in a vacation rental type of home. But not after the storm and most likely not in the near future.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“We have upwards of $30 million in losses,” Bujan said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even though electricity returned to the buildings that survived the storm, schools are not usable and not open. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“We have moved trailers in for classrooms and we have three campuses and one of our schools is not usable at all and the other two are damaged,” the mayor said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plans are to hopefully open schools later this month.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The town has one grocery store open with limited items. Few other businesses are open.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Representatives from FEMA, the SBA (Small Business Association) and Texas Windstorm and Insurance Association are on site to help residents with insurance and recovery fund paperwork.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Most of our homes cannot be lived in, the churches are damaged and the governor has given us help from the Army of Texas Highway Patrolmen,” Bujan said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Resident LeAnna Morgan is leading the recovery mission. She has been in talks with Farmington Mayor Todd Larson to navigate the recovery items that will be delivered to Port Aransas from Farmington in the next month. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Volunteering her time, Morgan receives strength from giving back to others, she said. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“We are trying to show love to others because we need love, and we are trying to express to the world what is going on,” Morgan said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The town is connecting to the world via daily updates and photos posted on Facebook with 25,000 followers. Morgan maintains the social media feed to keep in good communication with locals and let others know there is an ongoing need in Port Aransas. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Morgan, who works on a boat as a first mate, takes tourists out to see dolphins and works for a commercial bait dealer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many residents are living with family or FEMA housing in hotels outside the community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Some people are living on the ground, on tables, in cars or in trailers and some are sleeping like the homeless and they do not deserve to be sleeping on the ground,” Morgan said. “We are the only town on the island — Mustang Island — and the whole island was flooded and underwater. The storm’s pressure took off the roofs and the sides of trailers, and we had a nine foot surge of waves that came and even hurt the homes on stilts.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Morgan said the storm and its aftermath has been life altering for her and for all who live on the island. Even with FEMA’s help, Morgan said the town is still in grave need of donations. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“We are all busy rebuilding our lives because we are a tourist town and many of our residents work here and we are still in the recovery stage before rebuilding can happen and we do need donations,” she added.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When asked about Farmington adopting Port Aransas with the Drop in the Bucket campaign, Morgan said: “I think it is awesome.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“We want to give a big thanks and we really appreciate it,” Bujan added. “I am glad I am a faithful person in times like this because this gives me the strength.”&lt;/p&gt;"> <span itemprop='headline'> <meta itemprop='headline' content="Drop in the Bucket campaign takes off: Farmington adopts Texas town torn apart from Hurricane Harvey "> <meta itemprop='author' content="Kara Hildreth / contributor"> <div itemprop="publisher" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"> <div itemprop="logo" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject"> <meta itemprop="url" content="http://www.farmingtonindependent.com/sites/all/themes/fcc_basetheme/images/social_default_image.png"> <meta itemprop="width" content="128"> <meta itemprop="height" content="128"> </div> <meta itemprop="name" content="Forum Communications Company"> </div> <meta itemprop='datePublished' content="2017-10-15T09:34:10"> <meta itemprop='dateModified' content="2017-10-17T08:19:28"> <link itemprop='mainEntityOfPage' content="node/4343024"> </span> <span itemprop="image" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"> <meta itemprop="url" content="http://www.farmingtonindependent.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_300/public/0B1GA3o8G1_FdZjVFRFZ3M2hac3c.jpg?itok=fQilXjzJ"> <meta itemprop="width" content="3000"> <meta itemprop="height" content="2000"> </span> <div itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/CreativeWork' id='schemaorg-creative-work'> <meta itemprop='author' content="Kara Hildreth / contributor"> </div> <div itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Thing' id='schemaorg-name'> <meta itemprop='name' content="Drop in the Bucket campaign takes off: Farmington adopts Texas town torn apart from Hurricane Harvey "> </div> <div itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/PostalAddress' id='schemaorg-address'> <meta itemprop='addressLocality' content="Farmington"> <meta itemprop='addressRegion' content="Minnesota"> <meta itemprop='streetAddress' content="P.O. 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<div class='p402_premium'><div class='node-body'><p>The town is facing extreme personal and property loss from Hurricane Harvey as it was literally torn apart by high winds and devastating flooding.</p><p>"We thought we need to do something as a community and involve the other churches, and it started from there and we thought what if we could get a whole community together," said the Rev. Karen Evenson, pastor of Faith United Methodist Church in Farmington.</p><p>Shortly after Hurricane Harvey hit, Evenson and Andy Herzberg, pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in Farmington, were talking about engaging all Farmington churches in a community-wide relief effort.</p><div id='jobsHQ-hotjobs-single-0' class='jobsHQ-hotjobs-single'></div><p>That is how the Drop in the Bucket campaign made its first ripple.</p><p>Farmington Mayor Todd Larson contacted Port Aransas and talked with civic leaders. Larson said Port Aransas families will need to dig deep to begin to move forward and rebuild their lives after total loss of security, property, schools and work and their hometown community.</p><p>All Farmington residents, faith leaders, schools and the business community are uniting in the Drop in the Bucket campaign effort to personally deliver cleaning supplies to the Texas community.</p><p>"This has, I think, ignited a little more connection between the pastors and the community to try to get us all back to talking with each other and realizing we are nice people," Herzberg said.</p><div id='jobsHQ-hotjobs-single-1' class='jobsHQ-hotjobs-single'></div><p>"All churches were invited and we wanted to make sure we went beyond the churches and involved the greater community," Evenson added.</p><p class="subhead">Riptide of generosity</p><p>The ripple continued when Herzberg contacted his close friend Grant Beyl from Thrivent Financial in Farmington. Thrivent Financial-Minnesota Valley Associates in Farmington donated $10,000 for the Drop in the Bucket hurricane recovery initiative.</p><p>"He (Grant Beyl) gave seed money and he made a connection to a trucking company," Herzberg said.</p><p>Wayne Transport in Rosemount has agreed to donate a truck, a trailer and a driver who will drive down all the donations to Port Aransas by mid-November.</p><p>"We have been really excited to see everybody get on board with the project and we are excited to really help another Texas community that needs us," said Amy Flom, office manager with Thrivent in Farmington.</p><div id='jobsHQ-hotjobs-single-2' class='jobsHQ-hotjobs-single'></div><div id='mid-leaderboard-ad'>
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        </div><p>Soon Farmington's Pellicci Ace Hardware got involved by putting together buckets of cleaning supplies that will be delivered in the Drop in the Bucket campaign.</p><p>Amanda Stender, general manager with Pellicci Ace Hardware, is organizing this effort from the storefront. Stender said besides the Farmington Ace store, Ace Hardware stores in Eagan and Zumbrota are accepting donations.</p><p>The public can buy cleaning supplies for $25 that includes garbage bags, gloves, masks, paper towels, window cleaner and other cleaning supplies.</p><p>"At that point, it exploded and I said, 'We need to get everyone at the table,'" Herzberg added.</p><p>Farmington Public Schools have joined in the community effort and will fundraise through Oct. 17.</p><p>Farmington Elementary Principal Kim Bollesen said all five elementary schools are on board with the community outreach. Educator Jen Ventz informed students with a PowerPoint this week about the Drop in the Bucket campaign.</p><p>Riverview Elementary Principal Kim Grengs shared a parent story and photos from the hurricane with students. Schools will be fundraising this week in different ways like raising $1 to wear a favorite hat on Hat Day.</p><p>This can be a powerful way to teach students how to give back with spare change that may be a drop in the bucket, but together the pocket change can translate to support for a community more than a 1,000 miles away, Bollesen said.</p><p class="subhead">Community campaign</p><p>"I think the premise of everything is that we wanted to reach out and we wanted to reach out as a community, and we wanted the community to be able to come together," Evenson said.</p><p>Josh Solinger, president of Farmington Business Association, said he has already seen a lot of generosity. As the business-to-business sales representative at Ace Hardware, Solinger said, "I would expect us to hit 100 buckets easily" from the 77 FBA members.</p><p>Besides cleaning supplies, residents need simple living supplies like paper plates, silverware, bedding, toasters and coffee pots, Larson said.</p><p>Cheryline Elliott, owner of Dollar &amp; Up in Tamarack Ridge Center in Farmington, sells discounted paper products, toiletries and cleaning supplies. She hopes local resident will come to purchase those items to fill the truck. Orders can be placed online at the Farmington store at <a href="http://www.dollar-and-up.com">www.dollar-and-up.com</a>.</p><p>"I think it is an awesome idea because we need more charity and more love, and you never know when you might be in need yourself," Elliott said.</p><p>Residents can call Pellicci Ace Hardware in Farmington to donate on the phone, make a donation at the store or at a local church. Other paper products can be dropped off at City Hall and Farmington police headquarters off Pilot Knob Road.</p><p>"We all are putting in a lot of work because it is good cause," Larson said. "I can't image going through what these people are going through because in Minnesota if we get a bad snowstorm, we shovel ourselves out in a day or two."</p><p>The timeline for the Drop in the Bucket truck to leave Farmington is around Nov. 15.</p><p>"It depends on how fast we can fill the truck," Larson said.</p><p>Herzberg has been impressed by the community effort.</p><p>"I think one of the kind of neat things we have seen is how the mayor, the churches, and the businesses are all doing what they do best to keep this project going," he said.</p><p>Describing the mercy arms of the churches, Herzberg added: "This is what it looks like to be a Christian — we reach out with mercy and we are getting the word out there."</p><p></p><p><strong>Port Aransas devastated by Hurricane Harvey</strong></p><p>Piles of storm debris from Hurricane Harvey left Port Aransas resembling a war zone.</p><p>Damaged buildings, toppled cars and pieces of homes line streets that are hardly even recognizable to the southern Texas island town.  </p><p>Farmington is adopting Port Aransas in its community Drop in the Bucket campaign. The island tourist destination has a population of 3,800 residents. The largest nearby city is near Corpus Christi and the town is 18 miles long and a couple miles wide. </p><p>After Hurricane Harvey hit a few weeks back with fierce winds and heavy rain, the aftermath left the city in what mayor calls complete devastation. </p><p>Mayor Charles Bujan, 73, said 85 percent of the town’s residential and business community is either destroyed or substantially damaged in some way.</p><p>“My family has lived on the island since 1885, so we have seen numerous hurricanes, and this is the worst we have ever seen,” he said.</p><p>The town lost most homes, churches, businesses and all the schools and most residents who make a livelihood from working off shore or in a tourist industry are no longer employed.</p><p>Now living in Corpus Christi, Bujan lost his home, but his focus in now on his fellow residents and making sure they get all the support they need to rebuild their lives. </p><p>“But we are not rebuilding now — we are still in recovery,” Bujan said. “We have so much rubble, 188,000 cubic yards of debris that needs to be removed and we have neighborhoods with a quarter of a million cubic yards of debris to be disposed of.”</p><p>The tourist town has almost come to a halt because of the storm’s devastation.</p><p>“One any given year, we have more than 5 million visitors a year with tourists,” Bujan said. Most days there are thousands on the island living in a vacation rental type of home. But not after the storm and most likely not in the near future.</p><p>“We have upwards of $30 million in losses,” Bujan said.</p><p>Even though electricity returned to the buildings that survived the storm, schools are not usable and not open. </p><p>“We have moved trailers in for classrooms and we have three campuses and one of our schools is not usable at all and the other two are damaged,” the mayor said.</p><p>Plans are to hopefully open schools later this month.</p><p>The town has one grocery store open with limited items. Few other businesses are open.</p><p>Representatives from FEMA, the SBA (Small Business Association) and Texas Windstorm and Insurance Association are on site to help residents with insurance and recovery fund paperwork.</p><p>“Most of our homes cannot be lived in, the churches are damaged and the governor has given us help from the Army of Texas Highway Patrolmen,” Bujan said.</p><p>Resident LeAnna Morgan is leading the recovery mission. She has been in talks with Farmington Mayor Todd Larson to navigate the recovery items that will be delivered to Port Aransas from Farmington in the next month. </p><p>Volunteering her time, Morgan receives strength from giving back to others, she said. </p><p>“We are trying to show love to others because we need love, and we are trying to express to the world what is going on,” Morgan said.</p><p>The town is connecting to the world via daily updates and photos posted on Facebook with 25,000 followers. Morgan maintains the social media feed to keep in good communication with locals and let others know there is an ongoing need in Port Aransas. </p><p>Morgan, who works on a boat as a first mate, takes tourists out to see dolphins and works for a commercial bait dealer. </p><p>Many residents are living with family or FEMA housing in hotels outside the community.</p><p>“Some people are living on the ground, on tables, in cars or in trailers and some are sleeping like the homeless and they do not deserve to be sleeping on the ground,” Morgan said. “We are the only town on the island — Mustang Island — and the whole island was flooded and underwater. The storm’s pressure took off the roofs and the sides of trailers, and we had a nine foot surge of waves that came and even hurt the homes on stilts.”</p><p>Morgan said the storm and its aftermath has been life altering for her and for all who live on the island. 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