Over the years the neighborhood has become more diverse, not only in terms of ethnicity but in the jobs the people have. Everybody gets along. We can always do better, I guess, but it's a place where people get along. Some came to a community counseling program at the Nanticoke Indian Center to grieve and try to cope with the uneasy feeling that they should have helped Shelton and her family. They also spoke of their anger in the face of the hordes of television and radio reporters who descended on their neighborhood after the fire.
People here are private.
They aren't used to this kind of attention and they resent it. Let these people be for a while,' we said. But it doesn't happen that way I guess. Sally Stuber, a disaster mental health counselor with the Central Maryland Red Cross, was part of the group staffing the center set up by the American Red Cross. The Indian River School District continues to provide in-school counseling for staff and students.