Read Article
Volunteers Bev Gallant, Bill Gallant, Peter Cox, Arthur Rouleau and Thelma Giberson prepared and delivered 37 home-cooked meals to Rumford area seniors on Jan. 5.
Submitted photo
Eight volunteers prepared the food and delivered it Jan. 5.
Allie Burke, executive director of the River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition, said the coalition partnered with the church to make this effort possible, along with money and support from other organizations.
“We received a donation of cans of food and we asked the Holy Savior Church if they could help create some warm meals from this for seniors,” Burke said.
Supporting organizations include:
• Poland Spring Community Benefit Fund, whose mission is to accept and invest donations from Nestle Waters, the parent company of Poland Spring Water Co. per a written agreement with the town. The interest from investments fund community projects that benefit Rumford, such as but not limited to source water protection, health a
Another bottled water company wants to put a straw in North Central Florida’s aquifer and is encountering opposition.
Niagara, a California-based bottler, has proposed pumping up to nearly 2.9 million gallons a day from the aquifer. It would be bottled at a Columbia County industrial park in a three-party project with the city and county to get permitting and build the plant.
However, Lake City has indicated it will not approve the deal and the county’s economic development advisory board has recommended that the County Commission also pass.
“Given the proposed requirements of the County, the City’s indication that it would not enter into a three-way contract, and the tight deadlines set by (Niagara), the advice of the (advisory board) was not to move forward with this economic development agreement,” wrote Commissioner Tim Murphy, the advisory board’s chairman.
Plan for port proceeding despite pending Pan Am sale mycitizensnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mycitizensnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Andreas Yilma, Staff Writer
An aerial view of the land owned by Lanxess, the borough is eyeing for an intermodal transportation hub. âCONTRIBUTED
NAUGATUCK â Whether the pending sale of Pan Am Railways, Inc., ultimately impacts the boroughâs plan to develop an intermodal transportation hub remains to be seen, but for now officials are proceeding as planned.
âWeâve been aware of the sale for a long time and weâre working with several entities to get the best outcome for the borough of Naugatuck,â Mayor N. Warren âPeteâ Hess said.
The project, dubbed the âPort of Naugatuck,â is a proposed inland port and intermodal transportation hub on the mostly-vacant 86.5 acre parcel of land along Elm Street that is owned by Lanxess, the successor of Chemtura Corp. The hub would be used to transport goods to and from trucks and trains for warehousing and distribution. It would also allow international goods to go through customs in the b
Increasing Purchasing Power Poised to Expand Bottled Water Market Types comunicati.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from comunicati.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.