Mayor Greg Fischer announced the $100,000 from David Kueber, Planet Fitness franchisor and Sun Tan City co-founder, will be going toward restoration projects.
When she was told to evacuate her home that May Monday, in 2020, Anna Merillat never anticipated the events that would unfold. Neither did her parents.
Sanford marks first anniversary of flood, ‘one of the worst things I have lived through and also the best’
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Maybe there isn’t one.
“When I look back on it, I see, probably, the worst, one of the worst, things I have lived through and also the best, if that can make any sense at all,” said the Sanford resident and small business owner. “I just feel, I don’t know, like that. Whatever that name of that feeling is that I can’t quantify.”
When floodwaters swept through Merillat’s hometown of Sanford last May, some of the places she cared about most her house, her parents’ house and her new business, Three Diamonds Bridal Boutique were all damaged.