Amber Cash came all the way from Maryland to assist Fond du Lac area residents in battling the mold that ravaged their homes after floodwater receded. Jill Grosso had driven up from Mobile, Ala., to work at her side. Dressed from head to toe in white plastic jumpsuits, both Americorps volunteers joined a group of 14 others Saturday as they scrubbed and bleached two homes on North Military Road. Throughout the community, 50 volunteers trained in mold remediation were hard at work Saturday as part of Community Cleanup Day. Led by the Rev. Ellen Rasmussen, disaster response coordinator for the Winnebago District of the Wisconsin Conference of the United Methodist Church UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief), young and old provided elbow grease to clean out basements, remove molded items and disinfect the interior and exterior of homes, some of them gutted. I came here to help today because people are coming here from all over to help us, said Mary Gorske, a member of Holy Family Parish in Fond du Lac. I feel strongly that we should also be helping ourselves. As the two-month anniversary of the June 12-13 flood approaches, many residences remain in disrepair and some people still cannot return to their homes, Rasmussen said. Her church, Community United Methodist in North Fond du Lac, has been heading up the coordination of volunteers, including a Methodist team from Michigan. Some of the houses initially cleaned up have experie ...
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