Some old neighbors showed up Thursday to do some grunt work and help clean up Pendleton’s Country Market east of Lawrence after Sunday’s storm.

Twenty-one Bishop Seabury Academy seniors and some teachers removed rubble from two destroyed silos and other buildings for farmers John and Janet Pendleton.

“To come out here and see it this destroyed was disturbing for a lot of people,” said Kaylin Carter, a Bishop Seabury senior. “It’s good to see the help, but I know they’ll need a lot more.”

Bishop Seabury opened in 1997 at a brick schoolhouse, formerly known as the Kaw Valley Grade School, which is just south of the Pendleton farm. The academy moved in 2003 to its present location at 4120 Clinton Parkway.

“That’s a school that has meant something to us because they used to be neighbors,” John Pendleton said.

When Pendleton was younger, he attended the Kaw Valley school.

As someone who attended the old school when she was younger, Carter said the academy’s students still felt a strong connection to the Pendleton family.

Bishop Seabury Academy seniors Jordan Noller, left, takes a cement block from Blake Phipps, right, as the two assist with storm clean up at PendletonÃs Country Market. The two were helping stack pieces of cement tiles from what used to be two 60-foot silos Thursday as part of their community service work. The silos were toppled in Sunday's storm.

The family began planting asparagus in 1980. They have been a mainstay at the Lawrence Downtown Farmers Market and have sold asparagus and other plants from the greenhouses on their farm.

The support from many neighbors and community members, like the Bishop Seabury students, has made the work this week around the farm much easier, Pendleton said. Other than the two silos that the wind crashed, they lost a greenhouse. The high winds damaged other greenhouses and blew away another storage building.

“We have been tired at the end of the day, but everyday, we’ve gotten a month’s worth of work done simply with the people that have been here,” Pendleton said.

Twelve Lawrence High School classmates of Pendleton’s daughter, Margaret, and one of her teachers Fran Bartlett also offered their hands Thursday evening at the farm.

Despite the damage, the family has conducted some business this week. The asparagus plants were protected underground.

“We’ll be there,” he said of the April 29 opening date for the Downtown Farmers Market.

Ashley Woolsey, left, a Bishop Seabury Academy senior and Elisabeth Lee, assistant head of school at Seabury, fight to stay upright in a strong wind as the help clean up at Pendleton's Country Market. Bishop Seabury Academy seniors assisted with storm damamge clean up Thursday at PendletonÃs Country Market as part of their community service work.