I spoke to my librarian friend on the phone yesterday. Her neighbor managed to temporarily fix her electrical problem. He thinks she'll be okay until spring and that to get it fixed properly then will be about $1,000. I would be nervous with a temporary fix.
The refrigerator is definitely dead. Too many power surges, I guess.
A friend from my other forum emailed me yesterday to say that she had sent a package out for me to give to my friend. I have never even personally met this forum friend, so this is really kind of her. Our women's group is going to figure out something to do for her when we meet next Tuesday. My husband has said that he will take the wood he has split and stacked that we aren't going to use this winter so that she has heat and doesn't have to worry about that.
I searched yesterday for grants and loans for my friend to get this problem fixed and found a loan through Rural Development that can be taken out for 20 years at only 1% interest. She definitely qualifies for it because the "very low income" limit was over $22,000 for a family of 3. I'm going to stop on my delivery today to drop that off to her and talk to her. My boss and I are both willing to help her through the process in any way we can. I think now she's just overwhelmed and it all seems too much.
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The address of where I work is:
Potter-Tioga Library System
502 Park Ave.
Coudersport, PA 16915
You can check out our website at www.pottertiogalibrary.org to make sure we are legit. :-) There is a picture of my friend on there if you go to photo gallery and then click on the 2nd picture in the 3rd row down. She's the one in red.
She is actually the librarian at a different library but if anyone wants to do something you could send it to our work address and my boss and I would definitely make sure that she gets it. I don't know what she would think if things started coming in the mail to her and she didn't know why. LOL!
She has 2 Walmarts within an hour's driving distance and I know that she has friends that would take her. There are no Krogers or Menards around that I am aware of.
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