There's Hope Yet.
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There's Hope Yet.
As I come across them I'm going to post stories of people helping others in this economy.
Please add any stories you find.
This one is a perfect example.
Please read the article at the link.
There is much more to the story.
Boss goes extra step for mother of three | The Morning Sentinel, Waterville, ME
We hear a lot about job creators these days. But Drew Graham, president and founder of Ship-Right Solutions in South Portland, has taken that one big step farther.
He's a life saver.
"She's a terrific investment," Graham said Friday, sitting in his small conference room with receptionist Mary Plummer. "This is not a big company and I'm not a sit-in-the-ivory-tower president. I'm working -- and I know when somebody knows what's going on."
Plummer, who lived in Portland at the time, had no car.
But she somehow managed each morning to feed and dress the three kids and walk them to day care at the East End Children's Workshop at the bottom of Portland's Munjoy Hill. From there it was on to Monument Square, where she would catch a municipal bus for the ride over to her new workplace in the Rumery Industrial Park in South Portland.
It started in October, when Mary Plummer and her children had to move out of an apartment on Washington Avenue in Portland because the owner planned to renovate the building.
Scrambling as usual, Plummer located and leased a three-bedroom unit at 7 Montgomery St., just steps from the day-care
Plummer says upon moving in, she discovered the apartment had a bedbug infestation so bad that she ended up bringing Emma, her baby, to Maine Medical Center for treatment of bites on her legs.
Bottom line, fearful of bedbugs biting her kids and faced with an eviction notice, Plummer found herself once again in a state of crisis. And when she showed up at work on the morning of Nov. 8, it showed.
"She beat me to work that morning -- on the bus," recalled Graham. "And she and some of the gals from the office were talking and she was crying -- and I never hear her complain and she always has a positive outlook. And then I'm hearing about her having spent the night in the emergency room (with Emma)."
Emerging his nearby office, he told Plummer to find a place to land -- she quickly procured a room with two double beds at the Maine Motel on Main Street in South Portland.
Then without batting an eye, Graham told her to put it on the company credit card.
"The economy hasn't been good for this company -- we're not doing that great," Graham said. "But I have three little kids. And I'm blessed -- I have a nice house in Cumberland."
It should be noted that those three little kids in Cumberland, upon hearing about the three little kids at the Maine Motel, selected their six favorite stuffed animals and told Daddy to bring them to work the next morning.
Please add any stories you find.
This one is a perfect example.
Please read the article at the link.
There is much more to the story.
Boss goes extra step for mother of three | The Morning Sentinel, Waterville, ME
We hear a lot about job creators these days. But Drew Graham, president and founder of Ship-Right Solutions in South Portland, has taken that one big step farther.
He's a life saver.
"She's a terrific investment," Graham said Friday, sitting in his small conference room with receptionist Mary Plummer. "This is not a big company and I'm not a sit-in-the-ivory-tower president. I'm working -- and I know when somebody knows what's going on."
Plummer, who lived in Portland at the time, had no car.
But she somehow managed each morning to feed and dress the three kids and walk them to day care at the East End Children's Workshop at the bottom of Portland's Munjoy Hill. From there it was on to Monument Square, where she would catch a municipal bus for the ride over to her new workplace in the Rumery Industrial Park in South Portland.
It started in October, when Mary Plummer and her children had to move out of an apartment on Washington Avenue in Portland because the owner planned to renovate the building.
Scrambling as usual, Plummer located and leased a three-bedroom unit at 7 Montgomery St., just steps from the day-care
Plummer says upon moving in, she discovered the apartment had a bedbug infestation so bad that she ended up bringing Emma, her baby, to Maine Medical Center for treatment of bites on her legs.
Bottom line, fearful of bedbugs biting her kids and faced with an eviction notice, Plummer found herself once again in a state of crisis. And when she showed up at work on the morning of Nov. 8, it showed.
"She beat me to work that morning -- on the bus," recalled Graham. "And she and some of the gals from the office were talking and she was crying -- and I never hear her complain and she always has a positive outlook. And then I'm hearing about her having spent the night in the emergency room (with Emma)."
Emerging his nearby office, he told Plummer to find a place to land -- she quickly procured a room with two double beds at the Maine Motel on Main Street in South Portland.
Then without batting an eye, Graham told her to put it on the company credit card.
"The economy hasn't been good for this company -- we're not doing that great," Graham said. "But I have three little kids. And I'm blessed -- I have a nice house in Cumberland."
It should be noted that those three little kids in Cumberland, upon hearing about the three little kids at the Maine Motel, selected their six favorite stuffed animals and told Daddy to bring them to work the next morning.
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