How a skate park became a long-term disaster relief hub

Zionville Ramp Co. filled with supplies as Stateline began to grow on Oct. 9. Photo courtesy of Stateline Resource Station.

What started as a simple act of checking in with each other after Hurricane Helene quickly turned into State Line Resource Station, a grassroots relief effort that has since provided thousands of people with food, supplies and long-term recovery assistance, operating out of Zionville Ramp Co., an indoor skate park in Trade, Tennessee.

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Dozens of organizations call on Congress to return to fund FEMA in wake of Hurricane Helene

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOctober 8, 2024 CONTACTTrey Pollard, trey@pollardcommunications.comDan Radmacher, Media Specialist, dan@appvoices.org  As the Southeast United States works to recover from the catastrophic impacts of Hurricane Helene, the deadliest storm to strike the U.S. mainland since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is warning that it does not have enough funding to…

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