Sedalia Community Helping Hands, Devon’s Beat featured on Townsquare Talk

On the April 27 edition of Townsquare Talk, I interviewed Traves Williams, Paul Beard & Robin Balke, all with Sedalia Community Helping Hands.

Sedalia Community Helping Hands is grass roots organization, an NGO if you will, that addresses problems with people who have code violations with the City of Sedalia, or meet age or financial requirements (or they are disabled) to help them get their house into shape to pass inspection.

SCHH is going into their third year and has completed well over 50 projects to date.

Code Enforcement is aware of SCHH and recommends them from time to time if it is appropriate.

Other than holidays, SCHH works on projects every weekend, with between four and 25 volunteers who show up to help.

Also, various individuals, organizations and companies contact SCHH with offers of material donations that the group, a 501-3c organization, can use in their projects.

Williams is the co-founder of SCHH, along with Paul Beard.

Both men worked with Paul Klover Soccer. Williams works for the City of Sedalia, while Beard is a retired judge who just recently returned to private practice.

I also interviewed Angela Parrott and Ty Payne this past week,

Angela Parrott and Ty Payne co-authored a book that just got published by Cedar Hill Publishing called Devon’s Beat and it details the case of Devon, who at the age of 10, collapsed one day at school while just simply walking down the hallway.

He survived the incident, but was later diagnosed with Long QT Type 3 Syndrome, a type of Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome (SADS). Devon was later implanted with an ICD and is now doing well.

Closely related to that is a fund-raiser, now in its 13th year in Lincoln.

On Saturday, May 3, youth heart screenings will take place from 9 a.m., to 3 p.m. at Lincoln R-II High School. You must pre-register at myheartcheck.org.

Registration for a 5K begins at 5 p.m., at First Baptist Church’s Foster Hall, and the 5K begins at 5:30 p.m.

Then at 6:30 p.m., doors open at VFW Post 5925 on Lincoln, and the Borderline Band will be playing live for a freewill donation at the door. Again, a portion of  the proceeds will go for youth heart screenings.

For more information, go to Devon’s Beat on facebook go to www.devonsbeat.com or call (660) 287-2888.