This presentation outlines how Digital Image Restoration skills can be taught in the classroom while simultaneously promoting and encouraging community collaboration and support. This topic was selected for presentation after a successful classroom experience in which students restored images damaged by Hurricane Helene for a family that lost their home. In an introductory digital photography class, students need to learn proper image editing techniques. Image restoration skills teach students how to make these edits to any digital image, repair damaged images, and prepare students for practical, real-world employment opportunities. Image restoration may be necessary for several reasons, but specifically in western North Carolina, where the impact of Hurricane Helene increased the need. Many people lost everything in the flooding, but scattered photographs have been recovered, and some have even been reunited with their owners. To both teach students these necessary skills and support the western North Carolina community, students were given access to family photographs recovered after Hurricane Helene. They restored the images for the class and for the family. The restored photographs were returned to the family, fostering a sense of community engagement among students. The students reported feeling more confident in editing imagery, and they expressed that they can now “help loved ones or friends or people in the community restore old memories.”