Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 19, 1995 TAG: 9504190037
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BRIAN KELLEY STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: WILLIS LENGTH: Short
Two members of the Quaker-affiliated service group returned to Floyd County on Tuesday and finished a barn roofing project they began a few weeks ago.
The group completed most of the heavy-duty work - hoisting 64-foot trusses atop the barn with a crane and bracing them - on April1, when more than 50 volunteers from North Carolina and Martinsville came to Little Mountain Farm in Willis, operated by the three Harris brothers.
But the volunteers ran out of daylight before finishing the installation of metal roofing panels on the roof's west side.
Two members of the Trinity Friends Church of Martinsville, Eddie Clary and Harlie Harris (no relation to the farm's owners), returned Tuesday and finished the job with the help of farmers Eddie and Freddie Harris and a friend of theirs. The third Harris brother, Gary, was busy elsewhere on the farm Tuesday.
The North Carolina and eastern Virginia chapters of Friends Disaster Service volunteered their work to the Harris brothers after learning of a Feb. 3 electrical fire that destroyed milking equipment and the holding-lot roof.
The three brothers had insufficient insurance to replace the equipment needed for the dairy business, so they began raising beef cattle. The help in reroofing the holding lot gives the farmers a place to examine and treat cattle when they first arrive at the farm, Eddie Harris said this month.
by CNB