Neighbors helping neighbors during water crisis

  • Melissa Velasquez with Cooking for a Cause out of Stamford brought in a truckload of pizzas for residents on Saturday. Aspermont City Manager Lorenzo Calamaco picked up a few slices to deliver to remote crews who were still working to repair the city’s water line. (Photo by Everleigh Hurt -1st Grader Rotan ISD)
    Melissa Velasquez with Cooking for a Cause out of Stamford brought in a truckload of pizzas for residents on Saturday. Aspermont City Manager Lorenzo Calamaco picked up a few slices to deliver to remote crews who were still working to repair the city’s water line. (Photo by Everleigh Hurt -1st Grader Rotan ISD)
  • Aspermont citizens filling up jugs with donated water from Wes Smith of Stamford, Texas.
    Aspermont citizens filling up jugs with donated water from Wes Smith of Stamford, Texas.
  • Aspermont City Administrator, Lorenzo Calamaco, Aspermont Mayor Steven Ellis and Melissa Velasquez from Cooking for a Cause
    Aspermont City Administrator, Lorenzo Calamaco, Aspermont Mayor Steven Ellis and Melissa Velasquez from Cooking for a Cause
  • Stonewall County Tax-Assessor-Collector, Lacy English delivers donated buckets from Lonestar True Value for citizens to fill up with water.
    Stonewall County Tax-Assessor-Collector, Lacy English delivers donated buckets from Lonestar True Value for citizens to fill up with water.
The City of Aspermont and much of Stonewall County continue to receive aid from neighbors far and wide as locals have been rationing water since the city’s main-line ruptured only hours before a week of sub-zero temperatures hit the region. Food and water were donated from surrounding communities and the Texas National Guard delivered pallets of drinking water over the weekend. It had been more…

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