Groundbreaking held for tornado victims' new home

By Clare Huddleston

It?s a new beginning for a Pleasant Grove family that survived the April 27 tornado.?

On Friday, the Myrick family, with the help of others, broke ground on a new home in the McDonald Chapel community.? The Myrick family has been through a lot the past year.?

?We had a baby, a little girl, that lived three months and died last year.? Recently we were involved in the tornado on April 27th.? We had several family members pass away," explained Chris Myrick.

By turning some dirt, the Myricks hope their luck may be turning around too.?

?We're being given a pretty awesome gift that's going to change our life.? A house of our own and I don't know what else to say," Myrick said.

The Myricks have never owned a home before.? The home they were living in that was destroyed by the April 27 tornado was a home they were renting.? When they got the deed to the property at 420 Roanoke Avenue, they were elated.?

?I'm excited we'll be able to have something of our own and being able to raise a family in it and share good times,? said Hannah Myrick, who is pregnant again with a baby girl they?ve named Rider Brooke.?

?I think it's been a long hard road and I hope the starting of building this house will turn things around and make things brighter for us," she said.

Volunteers of America is helping build the Myrick?s new home.?

?Volunteers of America live with this mantra:? there's no limits to caring,? said Rick Ousley, ?We're gonna build them a house and before Easter we'll have them a home to live in and they'll celebrate the resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of hope for their family.??

Volunteers for America say the house will cost about $75,000. ?It will be built with volunteers and lots of donated materials.

Source: http://westjefferson.myfoxal.com/news/families/103012-groundbreaking-held-tornado-victims-new-home

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