Janet Atwell, J. Pechauer Custom Cues and Olhausen Billiards continue hurricane relief efforts
Article Excerpt from AZBillilards.com When Hurricane Helene entered the western North Carolina/Virginia/West Virginia phase of its destructive path during the last weekend in September, WPBA veteran Janet Atwell was in Colorado, competing in the WPBA’s Olhausen Classic. In communication, during the tournament, with staff at her Brunswick Borderline Billiards facility in Bristol, TN, she learned that the storm had not had any significant effect on the building, beyond some minor leaks in the roof from the relentless rain, which, by Saturday morning of that weekend, had stopped.
Upon returning to Bristol, however, Atwell learned that the storm had wreaked significant, catastrophic damage in surrounding communities, only 30 or 40 miles away, in multiple states and directions, which affected close friends and acquaintances in the areas which defined her pool room’s name. Atwell, with cooperation and assistance from J. Pechauer Custom Cues, Olhausen Billiards, and Brunswick, immediately set to work, launching fund-raising efforts that continue to this day.