Feeding Flood-Ravaged Wilmington

WILMINGTON, VT (September 9, 2011)—Residents continue to pull together to help with clean up and repairs in the aftermath of the floods that ravaged this small town on the western edge of Windham County. Reinhart Burlington Food Service Co., which supplies a lot of food to Deerfield Valley area schools, institutions and eating establishments, had deliveries made by personal car where roads were still impassible to delivery trucks.

"(Last Thursday) was the first day we were able to get one of our trucks over here," said Katie McCarthy, who lives in Brattleboro but works for Reinhart. "For four days, people weren't really able to get in here for anything."

 

Read the full story on the Brattleboro Reformer website: http://www.reformer.com/ci_18809910

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