Perimeter Park Executive Center Joins with Local Church Community to Help Nashville Flood Victims

July 26, 2010 - PRLog -- As Nashville continues to come together and rebuild in the wake of May’s damaging flood, Perimeter Park Executive Center’s own Lynn Durham spearheaded an effort to help flood victims Ron and Gidget, a couple with whom she had previously attended church.  Ron had been the church custodian and also managed and maintained the trailer park where he and Gidget lived.  Gidget works at a local Cracker Barrel.

Like the vast majority of flood victims, they had no flood insurance.  The flood was doubly painful to them, however, because it claimed not only Ron and Gidget’s home, car, and all of the woodworking and power tools he used in his job as manager/maintenance man, but also destroyed the entire trailer park.  So not only did they lose their home and most of their possessions, Ron also lost his job as well.

Lynn contacted other church members and friends of Ron and Gidget, and also clients and staff of Perimeter Park, in an effort to help Ron and Gidget get back on their feet by collecting tools to help replace the ones he lost so that he can start doing handy-man work again.

Sherry Cheatham, General Manager of Perimeter Park, allowed our office to be the designated drop-off point for those wanting to donate tools, gift cards, or even money to help them get back on their feet.  We hoped to be able to gather enough donations of items or gift cards to get at least a basic tool kit started for Ron, and were optimistically hoping for around $100 or so in gift card donations to help him add tools that weren’t donated.  What we actually ended up with went well beyond our wildest expectations.

On Tuesday, July 20, PPEC staff and clients gathered in our business center to present donated items to Ron and Gidget.  Ron received a very large tool box filled with new and slightly used tools, and almost $800 in gift cards from Home Depot.  Ron was all smiles as he announced, “Now I can get a tablesaw!”  

Lynn then told them that there was one more surprise and handed Gidget an envelope that simply said: “From your friends who love you and strangers who care.”  She opened it up to find a cashier’s check in the amount of $10,000 donated by their church family to go toward the purchase of a new home.

Afterward, Ron told Lynn, “I always knew that God loved me, but after the flood I felt like He had forgotten about me.  I can’t say that anymore!”   Perimeter Park Executive Center is proud to have played a small part in helping them, because we are Nashville.

Perimeter Park Executive Center (PPEC) provides executive suite office space that is easily accessible and centrally located in Nashville, Tennessee. We have been providing Nashville office space, administrative support, and meeting space since 1984.  Visit http://www.perimeterpark.net for more information.

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Perimeter Park Executive Center (PPEC) provides executive suite office space that is easily accessible and centrally located in Nashville, Tennessee. We have been providing Nashville office space, administrative support, and meeting space since 1984.