A Veterans Day story by my friend and former co-worker Pam McLoughlin, New Haven Register reporter, touched me this morning and I had to share.
It's about honoring our veterans and paying it forward.
I urge you to click here to read this heartwarming story about a Trumbull resident, a Milford bakery, and a Vietnam veteran who lives in New Haven.
Please check out this heartwarming, first-person holiday story written by my journalist friend Pam McLoughlin of Orange, a reporter for the New Haven Register.
It highlights acts of kindness performed for a family of seven in need. Pam said she was telling her personal story in an effort to inspire others to perform random acts of kindness.
I'm sharing it since the heating and plumbing supplies company that helped her family - Shelton Winnelson Co.- is located at 740 River Road, Shelton. Pam said she had never met the owner, Prisco Panza, who gave her a new boiler.
The other company that greatly assisted the family is Tamaro Oil Corp., based in Orange. Pam said she has been a customer for 20 years.
The companies donated a new furnace and installation to the family.
These two area businesses deserve plaudits for paying it forward!
And plaudits go to Diane Downey, an Orange schools social worker, who contacted Panza about the family's situation.
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