On Saturday January 31st in the early morning hours, a blazing fire took out a townhome on Winton Terrace where April Rogers has lived for 18 years. As firefighters are still investigating what led to the blaze which began in the apartment above hers, April has not been able to return to the apartment (which is uninhabitable) and is facing homelessness.

She has no family to stay with and has recently had to spend the night at Waffle House. While a church is helping partially pay for a hotel, the remaining cost has used up the small fund amount of funds that existed.

This is the type of situation that can lead to homelessness and possibly no coming back from.

Only with the help of the community can we hope to raise enough funds to get Miss April into a new place with deposit and 1st months rent paid as well as furnishings, kitchenware and CLOTHING. She will be starting from scratch with no belongings.

ANYTHING and EVERYTHING helps.

(I along with a rotation of many friends over many years had lived next to April Rogers —or “Miss April” as she has us call her. She was kind and neighborly, always down with our late night shenanigans of being 20 something year-olds with our parties and house shows. She stood up for us —whenever other neighbors called the cops—and told them “these babies ain’t hurting nobody.” You don’t meet sweet neighbors like Miss April very often.)