MACHINISTS SUPPORT LOCAL CHARITIES

Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge 743 located in Windsor Locks recently donated money in an effort help those less fortunate in the Greater Springfield and Hartford areas. Two checks, each for $2,842.50, were presented to the Open Pantry in Springfield and the Connecticut United Labor Agency. The United Labor Agency provides a variety of human service and employment training programs and the Open Pantry provides life-sustaining services to our neighbors in need. Pictured are, from left, Tony Walter, Lodge 743 vice president; Tony Fruster, Lodge 743 human rights chair; Allison Maynard, director of Open Pantry Community Services; Mark Hebert, Lodge 743 president; Kimberly Keane and Denise Patterson, United Labor Agency representatives; Paul Duff, Lodge 743 trustee; and Roger Nadeau, Lodge 743 secretary-treasurer and union coordinator of cooperative programs.