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The News of Orange County, Hillsborough, N.C. Wednesday, April 7, 1993--`- Mo st of monies raised. wised to help tornado t victims have - already y spent on them By Wesley Hyatt agencies following the storm. That trailer and habitat dwelling." j Editor report should be finalized at the • Fairview Baptist Church-- ' committee`s next meeting on April Through March 28, the church Preliminary figures available 20, according to Siler, received $37,400.29. "And they indicate the majority of money But the committee. does have have spent almost all of theirs," raised for victims of the Nov. 23, initial figures of the big agencies Siler said, with the exact figure 1992 tornado already has been spent which solicited donations for being $35,635.99 in expenditures. to assist them, tornado relief. There were three �� ; : About 50 families received some Sharron Siler, management main recipients-=Orange Corjgrega- sort of direct assistance from the . analyst for Orange County, said last lions in Mission, Fairview Ba list P church. Thursday the Unmet Needs Church and the American Red -American Red Cross—Stier had Committee, a group formed last Cross. . A breakdown of these only statewide figures available,last December with representatives of groups' donations and expenditures week for this group, but hoped to public and private agencies, has are as follows: have an exact figure for the county ' worked for months on handling the • Orange Congregations in in the near future. • costs of cleanup efforts and human Mission—Noting that "Their report Siler said the exact figures will be services and "getting people back to goes to the end of February - Siler •" made public when they are compiled normalcy" in the wake of the said OCIM had received by the Unmet Needs Committee. tornado, which caused approximate- $100, 240.57 to that point and spent Plans are for the committee to ly $2 million in damages to the $46,114.88 towards helping disband shortly after that time, but range County northwestern part of Hillsborough. victims. not before devising a plan of how nth at the The group also has attempted to Of the remaining $54,000 or so, agencies in the county can have a encaustic compile a final report on how Siler said, "Most of that money has better response to future n display, tornado victims were helped by the been earmarked for the moving of emergencies. useum.