Choosing a winner for the free Trane Furnace Comfort System this year was a more arduous task than ever before. We found ourselves overwhelmed by the great needs in our community and felt very insignificant in our ability to really make a difference. However, we chose a beautiful family in the area with a baby who has suffered from breathing issues ever since he was born. The parents both are working to make ends meet and have faced significant financial stress due to their son’s breathing conditions. Their furnace was “Red Tagged” last fall as it was unsafe to continue using the 30-year-old rusted relic. Our candidates work hard, not only to pay their own bills, but to also volunteer for local community services such as Toys for Tots. Once again, through their courage to continue on, although faced with adversity, we feel truly honored to have met them and to have chosen this very special family. The love of their friends and family was evident by their show of support in the morning that we arrived to surprise them with the new system. We are grateful to Trane for assisting with this endeavor to help out our community by not only supplying a 95% high efficiency furnace but due to the child’s breathing conditions, they once again included a Trane CleanEffects whole-house air filtration system. We look forward to following the family over the next few weeks to watch the expected improvement in their son’s breathing condition. Again, we are so thankful to all who nominated loved ones for this makeover. The nomination letters we read moved us to tears and made us feel like we live in the most caring part of the world. We thank all those who took the time to put into writing your care for your neighbors, friends, and family. We also want those of you who were not chosen to know that we deliberated long and hard over this decision as you are each a pillar of strength and stamina to our community.
