Livingston business owner returns from N.C. after delivering Helene assistance

LIVINGSTON, Texas (KTRE) – Last week, the front of Kenzi’s Kloset T-shirt shop showed just what it meant to love thy neighbor as thyself, even if that neighbor lives 15 hours away.

“It’s different when you see it on tv and then when you see it in real life; it’s a lot more real,” said Owner KaSaundra Rivers Leggett.

Leggett and her family drove that distance to deliver two trailer loads of donations gathered by the community of Livingston.

“It was very emotional, but we’re glad that we did it,” said Leggett.

After overcoming some challenges on the way Leggett says they were able to make it to the small town of Swannanoa, 13 minutes from Asheville, where they dropped off donations at God’s Way Church.

“Then we opened the back door and they saw all this stuff and they just couldn’t believe it,” said Leggett.

Leggett says she and her family helped the church organize their donations, both from Livingston and elsewhere.

After also helping in Burnsville, the scenery that surrounded both cities broke her heart.

“When you get there and you see the beauty of just their country and everything, but then you hear the stories and you see the destruction, it literally is like out of a movie. You wouldn’t believe some of the things that you were seeing,” said Leggett.

After three days of sorting and delivering donations, Leggett says she now has a new idea of what it means to love thy neighbor as thyself.

“Why do we have to wait for a huge tragedy to help our neighbors? If we could just do this, be like this every day, I think it would be a better world and a more blessed world,” said Leggett.

Leggett says she wants to thank God and the community of Livingston for making the trip possible.

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