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When the lights went out for two days at Northridge Retirement Center at 100 N.E. 27th Street, staff members went on the facility’s Facebook page to ask residents’ family members to pick them up. It didn’t have anything to do with safety. It was all about residents’ comfort. Without power, there was no air conditioning. For some residents, leaving wasn’t an option. Many have families out-of-town or out-of-state. By the time relatives could have gotten to Lamesa, the need would have already been met. “We really worked hard yesterday trying to do the best we could,” Marissa Sorola, the center’s executive director, said ...

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Lamesa Press-Reporter

P.O. Box 710
Lamesa, TX 79331
806-872-2177