IBEW’s Jim MacMichael and his niece Annie.

August 25, 2008 - Every year on the first Saturday in June, Darrell Buzzell and his wife Carole help lead people down the Kennebec River while raising money for disabled children and adults to attend summer camp here in Maine. “Twelve years ago, Carole and I started kayaking the Kennebec with a handful of friends to raise money for Pine Tree Society,” said Darrell. “Little did we know that twelve years later we would have over 200 boaters including people with disabilities.”

Since 1945, Pine Tree Camp on North Pond in Rome, Maine has offered children and adults with disabilities an incredible summer camp experience. The camp includes everything you could dream of in a summer camp including swimming, fishing, boating, music and arts & crafts — all on a 280-acre facility specially adapted to meet their needs. For many of these special campers, their annual visit to Pine Tree Camp or the Camp Pine Cone day camp is something that they look forward to all year long.

Rob Lang

August 8, 2008 - IBEW 1837 member Rob Lang was enjoying a summer Sunday afternoon in mid-July when two young children who lived next door came running up to his New Durham home. They told him their dad was hurt. Hurt bad. They needed his help.

The first class lineworker in the New Hampshire Co-op’s Alton District went racing down to find his neighbor bleeding profusely and in a desperate situation. While cutting down some trees behind his home with a chain saw, he had cut some tendons and severed an artery in his leg. He had driven his tractor out of the woods, told his children to see if Rob was home, and then fell off the tractor and collapsed on the ground.