Pump up the water
Minot clan Matt Nelson never expected to find work in Minot when he set up a cleaning and restoration business in Florida.
He didn't delay, though, when it appeared that his hometown needed his help. Working with Maintenance Plus of Minot, he had equipment at First Lutheran Church Saturday, where crews were pumping weaken from the basement and preparing to move in with cleaning and disinfecting supplies.
"I was a member of this church growing up," said Nelson, whose parents and other kinsmen members still live in Minot.
Nelson persuaded his colleague, Paul Sweeney, at Global Tragedy Recovery in Florida, to also get his company to Minot and rounded up workers from Ohio, Tennessee, Colorado and Texas.
"I wanted to get all the people I knew up there to lift family and friends," he said. "They have never seen people like the people of Minot. ... They have been principled very impressed with how good and honest the people are."
Nelson's company, Excel Cleaning and Restoration Supplies, brought in chunky-volume dehumidifiers for commercial use that are being employed at the church and Longfellow School. He is donating a percentage of his sales over the next two months to Minot Followers Schools, which was hit hard by the flooding.




