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Award

The Putnam Fire Department recently made a donation to the Putnam Elks. Left to right: Norm Perron, Asst Chief I PFD; Mike Paquin, Putnam Elks; Rick DiVincenzo, Asst Chief I PFD; Bob Campbell, Chief I PFD; Jim Gardner, Asst Chief I PFD; Dick Boulet, Putnam Elks; Kerry Farrell, Capt I PFD; Ben Wohler, PFD I EMS; Khon Thoumany, PFD I EMS. Courtesy photo.

 

 

Softball

games

turn into

donations

By Linda Lemmon

Town Crier Editor

PUTNAM --- The members of the Putnam Fire Department are very serious. Very serious about fighting fires and keeping Putnam safe. Very serious softball players and very very serious about helping their community.

Each year in the 11 years that the departments benefit softball games have been conducted, there has always been extra money to be donated to a good cause.

This year Fire Chief Bob Campbell said the department again had extra money from its benefit softball games and donated $500 of that to the Putnam Elks to help the Elks offer more free meals for those in need on Thanksgiving.

Campbell said originally the softball games were fund-raisers for two men who suffered from ALS and from MS. And right from the beginning there has been extra money.

In addition to a particular need that pops up in a given year, the department donates to the Deary race and has also given $500 to Day Kimball Hospital's ER department to provide toys like stuffed animals for kids coming into the department who need some comfort. The department also contributes to the CNB, a division of bank ESB, annual program to provide pajamas, slippers and more to kids near Christmastime.

"Every year we use extra for whatever is needed," Campbell said. "And there's always something."

Campbell is proud of the department. "The guys are pretty strong on making donations," he said.

There are 35 volunteer members on the department. There are three assistant chiefs and Campbell. Campbell has been in the department for 35 years.