Downeast Energy’s Hallowell office traditionally gets into the holiday spirit by holding a Yankee swap with employees. This year they decided to extend their generosity to a community family.
Santa Claus visited the Hallowell office with gifts for the Burk family of Jefferson. April and Rob Burk have had a tough year. April is a nurse and has been battling cancer and Rob is a volunteer firefighter, but he recently lost his job due to a disability. They have three children, Sean, 12, Samantha, 11, and Jonathan, 8.
The employees at Downeast, along with help from an elf, – the captain of the Whitefield Fire Dept. – put together a wish list of toys that the children wanted for Christmas.
Gift tags, each listing a toy, hung on the office Christmas tree so employees could pick a tag and get a gift for the Burk children.
“Everyone feels blessed that they have a good job with a good company. There are people out there that are hurting this year and we wanted to share the holiday spirit of giving with a family in the community that needs a little help,” said Jim Pietkiewicz, Hallowell manager.
The children received close to 100 gifts from the company and Downeast employees also gave the family a $100 gift certificate to Hannaford to help with their Christmas dinner.
About Downeast Energy & Building Supply
Downeast Energy and Building Supply has 13 offices in southern and central Maine and Dover, NH, and a building supply store and lumber yard in Brunswick. For more information, please visit www.downeastenergy.com.
