One thing we deal with in our line of work is the fact that weather conditions have a direct impact on our ability to serve our customers.  At the time of this writing we have received close to 20 inches of snow during three major winter storms beginning with the Christmas Eve blizzard and most recently the snow storm that hit us in the final week of January.  As a result we find ourselves somewhat behind schedule in our field work.  However, this inability to perform our normal duties has provided other opportunities for our organization.  While our trucks and field personnel were necessarily grounded during these weather events we turned our efforts to helping others.  Due to the nature of our work (working outdoors servicing a route while working at a quick pace) a large portion of our staff tends to be young, healthy and in shape.  During our “weather days”, these able bodied employees gladly devoted time to volunteering at local organizations ranging from the Regional Food Bank to Feed the Children to the Salvation Army.  It is my belief that time spent in productive endeavors is much more preferable to remaining idle at home.  Therefore, we were happy to continue paying our work force during the bad weather conditions provided they volunteered at these agencies.  Much of the volunteer work consisted of filling boxes with non-perishable food items to be provided to school children from low income families as well as other needy citizens in our community.  This turned out to be an eye opening and uplifting effort for all who participated.  We were proud to help and were especially proud when informed by one agency that our team broke the single day record in terms of the number of boxes filled and pounds of materials prepared for delivery.  The very next day our group broke its’ own record set just the day before!  I am personally very proud that we were in a position to pay our employees who obviously worked very efficiently and diligently and used their abilities to help out organizations whose mission is to provide assistance for those in need.           

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