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2010 Partner of the Year |
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EOC Helps Young Family Get Established Getting established as a young family can be challenging, as Sharon of Littleton well knows. The 26-year-old was laid off from her banking job six months after her fiancé lost his job as a night manager for a grocery chain. They survived for a year – and cared for her fiance’s five-year-old son -- on their savings and whatever temporary work they could find. Fortunately, Sharon got a new job as a pricing administrator for an agricultural company. She’s paying off bills and hoping her fiancé can find employment soon so they can proceed with wedding plans. One bill they no longer need to worry about is their heating bill. After suffering through two long periods when the natural gas service at their rental home was shut off, Sharon contacted Energy Outreach Colorado for help. Within a week, her utility account was credited to cover the past due amount and she was set up on an average payment plan. “Without Energy Outreach we would still be without heat and just waiting for summer to come,” she said, noting that they resorted to heating water on the stove for baths and plugging in electric space heaters to try to stay warm. “I was so surprised and ecstatic to find out we were being helped. We’d been dealing with this for so long. Now I finally have a stable job with benefits and things are looking up.” |
