Not tonight. Kind of like home to us. I mean reporter now see it like this. It stinks. Reporter instead of coaching parent volunteers spent this time cleaning and nasty afternoon storm brought heavy winds that ripped a huge layer of rubber roofing right from the building. The wind made such a noise ive never heard before. Like such a swoosh noise and we saw trash cans fly. Reporter from sky fox you could see how winds peeled away the roofing from the club on 7700 block of ditman street. Rain came pouring in flooding the hockey floor and shutting down the club until further notice. Your heart just stops. Its devastating all the time and people put in here volunteer work. Nobody gets paid here. Reporter the roof was bear alyearold. But took years to raise the money to buy it. What tomb am i going to do with all the kids have i in here. All my volunteers that help me out to do what i got to do here its like starting all over again. Reporter the damage couldnt come at a worse time. Club is
Fundraising to put up. The damage is more than 15,000. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Now the vase on to fix it. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live outside that building in holmesburg tonight. A lot of disappointed familiar tolls night, chris. Reporter there sure are, queen. What youre seeing behind me basically results in tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage here at the holmesburg boys club. This peace of roofing behind me it is so big its literally have the size of a football field. Ripped from the building this afternoon leaving kids without a club and volunteers scrambling to make repairs. On most nights youd find kids playing hockey at the holmesburg boys club. Not tonight. Kind of like home to us. I mean reporter now see it like this. It stinks. Reporter instead of coaching parent volunteers spent this time cleaning and nasty afternoon storm brought heavy winds that ripped a huge layer of rubber roofing right from the building. The wind made such a noise ive neve
Thank you for coming tonight. It is up pleasure i see friends in the audience. Even members of my riding durbin of an amazing author the lives year in and to is and she year . We are friends on the facebook. There is a memoir called a nomans war that came almost at the same time and hers is a memoir of all the deployments as a soldier officer deployed many, many times so im here you are here also. This is my first chance to do a reading and i am excited. I have done a couple talks but this is my inaugural reading. I want to read a couple different packages provide of a paragraph about each of the three main characters. It is new material i have not read from before. Banana wanted to read about time afghanistan and iraq. Then i do questions. The first veteran i would read about this Michelle Fisher that is the main character of this book i met her 2010 she told me a lot about herself introduce me to the other two people that we began an amazing multiyear process of lengthy interviews an
Thank you for coming tonight. It is up pleasure i see friends in the audience. Even members of my riding durbin of an amazing author the lives year in and to is and she year . We are friends on the facebook. There is a memoir called a nomans war that came almost at the same time and hers is a memoir of all the deployments as a soldier officer deployed many, many times so im here you are here also. This is my first chance to do a reading and i am excited. I have done a couple talks but this is my inaugural reading. I want to read a couple different packages provide of a paragraph about each of the three main characters. It is new material i have not read from before. Banana wanted to read about time afghanistan and iraq. Then i do questions. The first veteran i would read about this Michelle Fisher that is the main character of this book i met her 2010 she told me a lot about herself introduce me to the other two people that we began an amazing multiyear process of lengthy interviews an
And introduced me to the other two people in the boat and then we begin an amazing multiyear process of lengthy interviews and they gave me a lot of other kinds of material to rely on. Letters and diaries and photographs and medical records of military records in Therapy Notes, facebook posed and all kinds of things like that. So this book is an attempt to reconstruct the last decade in their lives that they were serving in the National Guard. So the three women are really different in age and really different in political is then that is one of the great joys of spending time with them. They are very Close Friends that they dont agree about the essential enterprise they are involved in together. So they have many conversations about what it all means. Michelle, the youngest of the three went in was 18 years old when she enlisted in the spring of 2001. Im going to read a passage from the previous fall. He had just voted for ralph nader. Shes very leftleaning. Im actually going to switc