The Mayflower Chapter of the Association of Traditional Hooking Artists (ATHA) recently presented a rug to Reading Municipal Light Department's (RMLD) Community Relations Assistant Bobbi Maillett in appreciation of the use of the RMLD facility at 230 Ash Street in Reading, where the group meets.  Standing l-r are Steve DiFranza, designer of the rug pattern, of North Reading, and members who brought his design to life, Jeanne Fallier of Westford; Heidi Lee of Topsfield; Bobbi Maillett (RMLD rep) of Boxford, Marcia Kent of Wilmington; Happy DiFranza of North Reading; Alice Remare of Beverly; Virgina MacMillan of North Reading; Joan Stocker of Kittery Point, Maine; Audrey Kish of South Hamilton and Carla Johnson of North Reading.  Missing from the photo are Diana DeRoche of Hamilton; Jean Jones of Lynnfield; Mary Lacey of Paris, TN (formerly of Westford); Gail Majauckas of West Newbury and Dorothy Woodle of Groton.

Community Relations Assistant Bobbi Maillet (left) and Community Relations Manager Priscilla Gottwald (right) explain electrical safety to students at the Abundant Life Christian School in Wilmington with Hazard Hamlet, a simulated educational display.

Reading Municipal Light Department (RMLD) Community Relations Assistant and Good Neighbor Energy Fund (GNEF) Secretary Bobbi Maillett (sitting-left) and RMLD Community Relations Manager Priscilla Gottwald (sitting-right) joined other GNEF members at Salvation Army (SA) Headquarters in Boston on January 27 to open thousands of donation envelopes from customers from 20 utilities across the state who support the GNEF.  Helping in processing the checks are: (back row, l-r) SA Captain Terry Shaffer; Concord Municipal Light Department’s Barbara Janowsky; GNEF Chairman and Western Mass Electric’s Kate Agin; NSTAR’s Mary Ellen Molloy; SA Major Betty Carter; National Grid’s Julie Wilcox; and North Attleborough Electric’s Melissa Brastow.  GNEF is a cooperative effort between sponsoring Massachusetts energy companies, The Salvation Army and caring neighbors throughout the Commonwealth.  The GNEF has raised over $12.6 million and assisted nearly 62,500 families with a month's energy expense since its inception in 1985.

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