When you give to the needy,” the Lord told his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount, “do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret.”

That admonition seems to have been followed very well 30 years ago when two groups of volunteers from Pickens independently journeyed to the tiny Sumter County town of Dalzell to provide much-needed food and supplies to the previously overlooked victims of Hurricane Hugo living there.

There were no news stories at the time trumpeting the mission of mercy the people of one small Upstate town undertook to help the people from one small Midlands town in the fall of 1989. There was too much horrible news in the aftermath of the biggest natural disaster to strike South Carolina in a generation to give public praise to all those who sacrificed their time, efforts and material blessings to help the thousands left destitute in the wake of the storm.

But the residents of Dalzell never forgot the kindness that was shown to them — even though the

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