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• Tornado recovery efforts- continue in Orange County By BLAKE DICKINSONII? Center workers have helped those vic- The Chapel Hill Herald. I tims apply for low-interest Small Busi- i HILLSBOROUGH — More than two ness Administration loans and referred weeks have passed since a tornado them to the American Red Cross,"of property damage through Health Department, Orange Congre- swath rough Or- Coun- killed two people and cut a $1.9 million ty gations in Mission and other relief agen- r-, cies, he said. ange County, but recovery efforts .con- "We've been real pleased with the tinue. work of all those human service organi- 'The county's downtown Tornado Di- zations," Kittrell said. saster Service Center has been doing Commissioner Stephen Halkiotis brisk business since it opened last agreed. "There have been a lot of posi- Thursday, Assistant-County-Manager-A1--tive things-that-have come out of this bert Kittrell said this week. tragedy," he said. In just its first two days of operation, Most of the requests have been for 88 people from 35 households had vis- housing assistance, repairs or clean-up, ited the 109 Court St. center for one- said Marti Pryor-Cook, county Depart- ment of Social Services director. Some stop access to a' wide range of human v services, Kittrell told the Oran County victims still need replacement beds, bed- ge Coun Board'of Commissioners Monday night!'" ' please see RECOVERY/12 _ ■ I •