St. Henry residents help clean a science lab at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Middle School in Ottawa on Wednesday. The group of about three dozen volunteers spent the day helping remove soaked drywall, flooring and other supplies from several church-owned buildings that were heavily damaged by floodwaters last week.

OTTAWA - First came a ghastly stench of things rotting and then the sight of debris piled throughout the town. As a St. Henry school bus slowly snakes around police cars and dump trucks in downtown Ottawa on Wednesday morning, . . .