Churches fix up home for ailing woman

Churches fix up home for ailing woman

YOUNGSTOWN — Members of a Virginia and a Cornersburg church spent the week helping improve the house of a city woman who is physically unable to do the work herself.

Ten parishioners of the Cornersburg Baptist Church and 10 from the Amissville Baptist Church in Amissville, Va., painted the house and garage on Stratmore Avenue on the city’s southwest side. They also did mulching, planting and landscaping.

Mayor Charles Sammarone gave proclamations Friday to pastors of both churches thanking them for their efforts, which concluded today.

“What you did is what we’re trying to get the community to do,” Sammarone said.

The woman, who owns the Stratmore house, lives alone and has cancer, said Maureen O’Neil, the city’s neighborhood improvement coordinator.

Other groups that want to help city residents in need of making improvements to their homes can call O’Neil at 330-742-9762.

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