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Good News

Ethan Song, through the work of Song Strong, the foundation his parents established after his tragic loss, has done a very beautiful thing for a group of homeless children on the Connecticut shoreline.

The story starts like this: New London's Covenant House, currently overfilled with homeless families, had to stop taking my food rescue deliveries (from Connecticut College through Haven's Harvest) because their industrial refrigerator broke beyond repair. I mentioned this when I emailed Covenant's thanks to 20 shoreline poets for their beautiful (anonymous, of course) holiday gifts to the many Covenant children. One of those poets, Julie Fitzpatrick, posted a request on Facebook that friends honor her birthday with donations to Covenant toward the replacement of their refrigerator.

The treasurer of Song Strong, Laurie Fasano, is a Facebook friend of Julie's; she and the foundation's president, Kristin Song, offered immediately to dedicate all necessary foundation funds to acquiring and installing that desperately needed refrigerator, regardless of cost and logistical difficulties. Julie and her husband, Pete Palumbo, did the measuring, located the appropriate appliances at Art's TV & Appliance, and notified Song Strong of the cost. The foundation responded joyfully within minutes, and the deed will be done as soon as possible. Covenant's director was moved to tears when I first told her of this offer, and the friends to whom I relate this story tear up, too.

I thought that in this fraught time, good news like this should be shared: Guilford is home to so many good people.

Nan Meneely

Guilford