Volunteers help check tasks off the flood cleanup list

WAITSBURG-Waitsburg community members were slinging sandbags again over the weekend, but this time, there was no threat of flooding. Volunteers were busy removing the last bit of flood devastation from Waitsburg's Preston Park on Saturday.

Matthew and Krystal Wyatt were walking through Preston Park last week and had to climb over a sagging wall of sandbags and weeds to get to the river to go fishing.

"We have this motto that we've lived by for a long time, 'if you see a need, fill a need.' We went fishing and had to climb over the bags. Other people were also enjoying the river, so we thought-...