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Speaker 1: All right, as we approach the holidays. A good little

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Speaker 1: story here. I am in Bridged in Maine with William's

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Speaker 1: Shuttleworth formerly of New Report. You may remember he walked

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Speaker 1: across the country for veterans' rights back in the day.

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Speaker 1: Is a good friend, William. How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm fine? Thank you.

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Speaker 1: This great operation here, the Lake Region's Wood Bank is

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Speaker 1: your creation. You guys are busy here, chainsaws. Is a

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Speaker 1: lot going on, tell me about it today.

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Speaker 2: We have about fourteen different volunteers and I created this

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Speaker 2: opportunity with Loon Echo, which is a trust fund for

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Speaker 2: economy and also the church. And what we do is

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Speaker 2: to collect wood and provide it for those people who

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Speaker 2: have no fuel oil or diesel fuel or heating oil

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Speaker 2: so that they don't get cold.

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Speaker 1: This wine. That's unbelievable. The volunteers thing is, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it seems like people are eager to help.

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Speaker 2: We have a website and people are here. Today's a

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Speaker 2: lovely day. We have delivered fifty truckloads of woods so

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Speaker 2: far to different people. We have about forty cords of

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Speaker 2: wood on stock here for people to come to get

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Speaker 2: or I can deliver, so nobody should go cold in this.

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Speaker 1: Area, and it does get cold up here. I mean

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Speaker 1: when you do give that delivery, I mean, have you

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Speaker 1: seen some people that are just they must just be

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Speaker 1: so thankful and getting out of a tough spot.

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Speaker 2: As you know, they canceled SNAP for a while, and

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Speaker 2: they canceled the Light Heat program, which is a low

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Speaker 2: income heating program. So people are desperate right now to

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Speaker 2: make ends meet. And when I deliver the wood, you

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Speaker 2: just can't believe the gratitude that people have about what

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Speaker 2: they are receiving.

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Speaker 1: And I mean it's hard work back here. You guys

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Speaker 1: are getting after it.

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Speaker 2: It is hard work. I put about forty to forty

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Speaker 2: five hours into it every week. It's worth it. It's

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Speaker 2: my mission for the community. It's more than delivering wood though.

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Speaker 2: It's a healing opportunity not only for the people that

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Speaker 2: get the wood, but this builds community for people to

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Speaker 2: want to give, and they always try to find a

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Speaker 2: way of how to do that.

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Speaker 1: You guys have real camaraderie happening right here.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing. We have lunch and patience and coffee and

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Speaker 2: cider and people come together all walks of life. I

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Speaker 2: have a dentist here today, I have a biochemist is

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Speaker 2: here today. It's pretty wonderful, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It really is.

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Speaker 2: Williams.

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Speaker 1: Shuttle with great job. I'll let you get back to

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Speaker 1: it all

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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, thanks so much from bridgeton Maine, Drew mholland WBZ,

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Speaker 2: Boston's news radio