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New Port Richey community picking up the pieces after Hurricane Helene

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  • Residents of New Port Richey are left picking up the pieces after floodwaters destroyed homes and businesses.
  • The Rotary Club of Holiday and dozens of volunteers are teaming up to help rebuild all they've lost by collecting donations at the Collaboratory in downtown New Port Richey.
  • Volunteers served more than 600 meals to people in need on Sunday alone.
  • If you're interested in helping, contact the Collaboratory across from the Chamber of Commerce as organizers said there are about 40 homes they still haven't been able to get to.

A state report says hundreds of frail elderly nursing home residents were stacked side by side, head to toe in a small church with no working air conditioning or refrigerator during Hurricane Helene.

Florida nursing home patients were 'side by side, head to toe' with no air conditioning, food