
Help save Ricky Loco's Home
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Ricky "Loco" Clinebell is a great guy and a pioneer in the whitewater world. Legend has it he was the original video boater of the New River Gorge. He is definitely a person who has shared his love of whitewater with much of the world. This was his grandfather's camp built in 1962 that he inherited. It is located on the Greenbrier River and was damaged in the recent historic flooding here in WV. He is trying to save this cabin and could use some help. This amount is not all that he needs to clean it up and fix it but it would really help him get going. He is currently living in a friend's house nearby as he begins the cleaning and reclamation of his cabin. Please help out my friend in his time of need. He is one among many people here in WV greatly affected by this natural disaster. My name is John Cornwell, I am not important. I'm not special. I just want to help my friend any way I can. Many people here lost everything, fortunately he has the possibility of rebuilding his grandfather's cabin. The money raised will be used to fix his cabin. Any extra money raised will be donated to local assistance groups to help other flood victims. Let's share the love and help out Ricky Loco. Any amount helps out. Thank you. I do not have a Facebook account but I am a real person trying to help a real friend.
Update-
I have had some questions about me and what this is all about. This is my first time trying to help a friend in this way and I am great fun for all the support that has come out of the wood work because you heard it from a friend of a friend. I have no Facebook account. I have only texted and emailed his story and this Link to people in my personal address book. If you saw something on Facebook or elsewhere it is because a friend of Ricky Loco or John Cornwell spread the word. I love all of you who have participated to make this happen. I could not have done this by myself.
I grew up in Chattanooga Tn, cut my teeth on the Ocoee River and then got hooked on the Gauley River. If you remember Whitewater Information, Weasel, and the Floaters Bar, that is where I first Ricky Loco. Through the fog of history that lies between now and 1991, I believe Tug Chamberlain introduced me to Ricky Loco on a smokey, people packed Two for Tuesday night at Floaters sometime in the early spring of that season. I was a college kid from TN working a summer job and he was a seasoned river veteran. Over the years he and others like him who pioneered not just video boating but international river running, they were inspirational to me and many other young boaters.
So that's kinda why I wanted to help him out.
Thanks again for for all the support and love shown in the comments.
John Cornwell



Update-
I have had some questions about me and what this is all about. This is my first time trying to help a friend in this way and I am great fun for all the support that has come out of the wood work because you heard it from a friend of a friend. I have no Facebook account. I have only texted and emailed his story and this Link to people in my personal address book. If you saw something on Facebook or elsewhere it is because a friend of Ricky Loco or John Cornwell spread the word. I love all of you who have participated to make this happen. I could not have done this by myself.
I grew up in Chattanooga Tn, cut my teeth on the Ocoee River and then got hooked on the Gauley River. If you remember Whitewater Information, Weasel, and the Floaters Bar, that is where I first Ricky Loco. Through the fog of history that lies between now and 1991, I believe Tug Chamberlain introduced me to Ricky Loco on a smokey, people packed Two for Tuesday night at Floaters sometime in the early spring of that season. I was a college kid from TN working a summer job and he was a seasoned river veteran. Over the years he and others like him who pioneered not just video boating but international river running, they were inspirational to me and many other young boaters.
So that's kinda why I wanted to help him out.
Thanks again for for all the support and love shown in the comments.
John Cornwell



Organizer and beneficiary
John Cornwell
Organizer
Fayetteville, WV
Richard Clinebell
Beneficiary