Soprano Laura Strickling and her family have been rescued from St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Now in Puerto Rico, she and her husband and one year-old baby Elizabeth are waiting to fly to Chicago. A Facebook community of musical mothers is collecting donations to shower Laura and her family with supplies, including a new stroller to replace the one destroyed by Hurricane Irma.
Strickling won First Prize and the Audience Favorite Award in the 2015 Rochester Oratorio Society's Classical Idol Competition.
