Volume LX SEPTEMBER 2016 No. 9 A Future With Hope Races to Rebuild By Josh Kinney Unley had felt forgotten for sev-
[email protected] eral years, having lived in eight different places including an RV and on family The buzz of power tools reverberated member’s couches. off fresh planks beneath Nan Unley’s “My daughter is living with friends in Tuckerton home. Voices shouted direc- Burlington County, and her daughter is tions over clinking nails and grinding drills living with me at my mom’s in Tuckerton as volunteers from A Future With Hope so she can continue attending Pineland’s and Race2Rebuild worked together school district which is familiar with her through the sweltering heat of Saturday, special learning needs,” Unley said. August 13. In 2002, Unley bought her home in “Four years later and we’re still here,” Tuckerton and moved from Cinnamin- Unley said, wiping sweat from her brow son out of a love for the Jersey Shore. and resting against a new piling hold- Friends and family told her she would ing up her house. In 2012, Superstorm never be able to afford the venture but Sandy left Tuckerton devastated, and the with perseverance and determination she work continues. worked hard to make it happen. Later that “My boss took a ride here two weeks year, she lost her son to a seizure. His ago and said, ‘Nan, I can’t believe it. So two young daughters “lived for coming many homes still not fi xed!’” Unley said. to Nannies to crab and fi sh.” Unley’s son But now that has changed, at least for asked his mother never to move because Unley, who in February garnered sup- of how much he and the family loved the port from A Future With Hope.