In addition to the community drive, they received countless donations from individuals hoping to help.
“Everytime we get to a place like oh no, what are we going to do? , it is almost like five minutes later someone comes in and is like we have gifts for you, said Orfitelli.
The help came from unexpected places.
“One of the people who has been a significant donor for us is actually out of work, said Orfitelli.
Sue Evarts was laid off in the beginning of the pandemic. It has been a tough year, but she says, “If I didn’t do something for someone else it would have been a lot tougher.”
Norwich Two families are ready to put years of harrowing experiences, two civil wars, hunger, financial struggles, fear and anxiety behind them as they prepare to move into their new homes on Golden Street in the city s Greeneville section.
Volunteers for Habitat for Humanity of Eastern Connecticut are putting the finishing touches this week on a new duplex at 122 and 126 Golden St. that will end the years-long journeys for two refugee families that have escaped wars in Syria and Sudan.
Amna Azrag, her husband, Ezairig Elnemair and their four children received the keys to the four-bedroom home at 122 Golden St. in an online virtual Habitat for Humanity home dedication ceremony Dec. 4. In a nearly identical ceremony, Ahmad Mahlo, his wife, Zainab Hbaish and their four children will occupy the adjacent home at 126 Golden St.
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Mike Stiefel, who owns a snowplowing company in Montville, was so inundated with calls Wednesday, he turned his phone on silent a far cry from 10 months ago, when he estimated the lackluster winter cost him $15,000 in lost earnings. A winter like that put quite a few people out of business, Stiefel, owner of Mike & Sons Snow Plowing LLC, said of last winter s low snowfall.
As of Wednesday evening, over 60 million residents of the East Coast were under winter weather advisories, watches or warnings in anticipation of the major winter storm, stretching nearly 1,000 miles from northern Georgia to New England. The eastern Connecticut shoreline was forecast to get up to 16 inches of snow by Thursday afternoon.
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