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Volume 22, Number 29
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Eversource asking for customers’ help
FARMERS TO FAMILIES PROGRAM
As Eversource continues to remove stormed-damaged trees and branches following last month’s powerful storms, the energy company urges customers to inspect trees on their own property that could pose a risk to the electric system and to support the energy company’s tree-trimming and hazard tree removal program.
Local groups dispense food boxes On Saturday, Sept. 5, the Berlin Lions Club participated in the USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program. Assisted by local Boy Scouts and members of the Berlin High School Upbeat program, the goal for the day was to distribute more than 1,500 boxes of produce – each weighing approximately 20 pounds.
“Trees are the number one cause of power outages and removing these trees is critical, especially with fierce storms happening more frequently. Roughly 60 percent of ConnectiSee Eversource, A12
New program manager The Community Foundation of Greater New Britain has promoted Candice Tabone to program manager. Tabone graduated from Central Connecticut State University, where she majored in psychology and minored in community engagement. Farmers to Families purchases and distributes produce, dairy and meat products that would normally have been bought by restau-
rants, hotels and other food service businesses, but weren’t, due to COVID-19. — Photos by Lee Roski
Before joining the foundation, she worked in the dean’s office for the Carol A. Ammon College of Lib-
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eral Arts and Social Sciences and interned with the Prudence Crandall Center.
Tabone has been with the foundation since January 2019 and excelled in her role as office manager, overseeing See CFGNB, A12 R233461
The first hour of the event, held at the Berlin Lions Fairgrounds, was for shelters and food banks, while the remainder of the day was open to the general public. Each family left with at least one box.
More than 10,000 trees toppled during Tropical Storm Isaias and the late-
August microburst in Branford and surrounding communities. Since those violent storms, Eversource has identified and removed hundreds of additional storm-damaged trees that threatened electric reliability.