MANAWA (WLUK) — Volunteers from the Little Wolf High School football team and surrounding Manawa community helped load dumpsters full of flood-damaged items Saturday morning.
This comes after a declaration of disaster from Gov. Tony Evers on Friday.
Volunteers from the Little Wolf High School football team and surrounding Manawa community helped load dumpsters full of flood-damaged items July 13, 2024. (WLUK video)
Cleanup crews went to six houses in Manawa to collect and dispose of the items with trucks and trailers.
“We are actually overwhelmed with the help from the football team, and of course the Manawa Cowboys and their parents,” Mayor Mike Frazier said. “As you have witnessed already, there is quite a few young people helping. Hopefully they learn community service and to pay it forward once they leave high school here.”
He estimated that within the first hour, they had already unloaded about a dozen trucks.
“We can never say thank you enough to these people,” Frazier added.
Cleanup efforts began last Saturday.
Two dumpsters were full by 9 a.m., and new ones were quickly delivered.
Ryan Larson, an athletics coach at Little Wolf High School told us multiple players volunteered to clean.
“I know it’s over 10 for high school, and I believe there’s two Pop Warners,” he said.
The plan came about after a request from the head coach.
“Brad contacted us, the head coach for football, saying that there were some people in need and help moving all the stuff,” Larson told us. “There’s a lot here to move. We have a very, very good group of kids that love helping out this community. We decided to do it today, and do what we can to help out.”
The players themselves also said as much.
“Feel good, I feel like I’m helping the community,” said James Wuits, who plays center for Little Wolf football.
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