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Laurie Spaschak, Pearlington Recovery Center manager, and Bob Putnam, director of the Can-Do organization's Gulf Coast region, are working with several other groups to aid Pearlington residents and help rebuild the community in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Effort to under way to help Pearlington recover, rebuild
BY MICHAEL PRINCE Staff Writer
Since moving to Pearlington from New York shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region, Laurie Spaschak, along with several volunteers, has worked tirelessly to assist in re. • ery efforts
As manner ot the Pearlington Recovery Center and volunteer coordinator, a position she has held since January. Spaschak teams-up ^;th nur:;cr organizations in the area and across the country to aid the community in day-to-du. like icK'C _• -social activities to spirits and long-term efforts to rebuild homes and the economy.
"Through	the
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ever met. I'm honored to be here. I want to see things get much better for them."
The sign on the Pearlington Recovery Center's entrance reads "Pearl-Mart," and the office where Sn - l and her \	-»
to see positive changes for the people here."
Putnam said the Can-Do organization works primarily to have corporate America pay for recovery efforts in devastated are :'	'.r- i ••
Southern Baptist Church on Highwa> *>04’ in Pearlington. The "Town Meeting" will _■:e people an opportunit> to ask
questions and ideas, she said. \i
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"We need about $1.5 million to build 157 homes here," he said. "That's about $20,000 a home, but we can do it. The families here
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Spaschak said the Mobile (Ala.) Food Bank, the Salvation Army and churches from —	across the nation have
sure all of	the	provided the bulk of the	economy	here	from	the
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home. The community's population prior to Katrina was approximately 1,600.
"We need to build the
Pearlington.
"The faith-based groups have been an •’normous help," she ' "We have received c from all over and many, have
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of need.
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"This has always been a bedroom community for people who work in the Bay area, Slidell and Gulfport. There's never been much of an economy. If we can create an ... economic base here, the ?et community will be much
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