UPDATE TO ARTICLE BELOW--MORE THAN $17,000 WAS RAISED AND SELESTER ROWE TO RETURN TO HIS HOMETOWN OF COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MAY 9, 2013!  SEE MEDIA ADVISORY WITH DETAILS:http://www.prlog.org/12132042

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It's amazing that there can be reports that impact you and yet you don't know about it until months and sometimes years later.  So it is with the story of a fellow Columbusite, who was struck by an SUV in a hit and drive accident.   Here are links to the original story.

http://sfappeal.com/2012/11/family-of-north-beach-hit-and-run-victim-seeking-ways-to-get-him-home/

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/05/neighbors-trying-aid-north-beach-transient-hurt-hit-and-run

http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/north-beach-community-rallies-homeless-man-critica/nN9qM/

VIDEO:

http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/san-francisco-homeless-hit-and-run-victim-remains/vHNNz/

A year later family, friends and fellow graduates of Spencer High School in Columbus, Georgia continue to rally with the "Bring Les, Home" campaign to help Selester Rowe, who was trained as an engineer at Tuskegee Institute and also a talented musician.  Rowe who came on hard times in the San Francisco Bay Area became homeless.  As he is healing at Laguna Honda Hospital, fund raising is underway to return him to Columbus, Georgia.  Columbus, Georgia is where my mother Ouida McLendon Wright settled our family, after my father,  Sp5 Wyley Wright's death in Viet Nam.  I had no idea that a fellow Columbusite was experiencing such trouble so close to what is now a place where I have lived longer than I did while growing up in Columbus.  It's ironic that Selester Rowe was struck at a Stockton and COLUMBUS street in San Francisco.  The praise report is that he survived the near fatal accident.  Praise God!  He can return home again!

If there is any way you can assist, please do so.  See the information on the poster below.

Sincerely,

Jackie Wright
President
Wright Enterprises