GLEN SPEY, NY — Electric linesmen working on Thanksgiving got an unexpected invitation for dinner, and Lumberland has received thanks for it.
Last month, volunteers announced Lumberland’s …
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GLEN SPEY, NY — Electric linesmen working on Thanksgiving got an unexpected invitation for dinner, and Lumberland has received thanks for it.
Last month, volunteers announced Lumberland’s first community Thanksgiving dinner, for those who either could not afford dinner, could not get home, or didn’t want to eat alone.
Then came the Thanksgiving storm.
Power outages brought Orange & Rockland Utilities and Con Edison repair crews and their work continued into the night, and they hadn’t eaten all day, wrote Francis W. Peverly, the utility’s vice-president for operations.
Peverly wrote that at about 6 p.m. “some nice people stopped” and invited them all to the town’s first community Thanksgiving dinner. And so they had dinner.
Word got around the company about the volunteers’ unexpected hospitality and public affairs manager Aileen Sullivan appeared at Monday’s town board meeting (postponed due to last Wednesday’s storm) with Peverly’s thank-you letter and an O&R check for $500 in support of next year’s community dinner.
As luck would have it, regular monthly communications received also included notice of the utility’s proposed rate increase.
In other business, the board approved $10,000 for landscaping at the new extension of the town cemetery, to be done next spring by Lawnsmith.
The board re-appointed Charlie Fallon to the county fire advisory board; received a $500 donation for constables from David Riley; approved the $2,350 purchase of a fire-proof cabinet for the assessor’s office, which was partially funded by a grant provided by Sen. John Bonacic; appointed Heather Worzel as a full-time clerk for payroll and bill processing; and approved $1,000 for the purchase of three floor mats to cover the town hall’s newly refinished floors.
A request for two part-time employees from highway superintendent Don “Bosco” Hunt was tabled until he could be present, and a proposed settlement of a property assessment appeal was tabled until later in the month, when refund amounts could be included in the resolution.
The board will meet again at a year-end meeting on December 29 (December 30 snow date).
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