FirstEnergy's Green Team Members Spruce Up Community Gardens in Western Pennsylvania
FirstEnergy's Green Team Members Spruce Up Community Gardens in Western Pennsylvania
Neither April showers nor two creaky wheelbarrows that broke down on the job could deter a dozen FirstEnergy Green Team volunteers in western Pennsylvania from replenishing community gardens in Westmoreland County with five tons of fresh topsoil and compost.
無論是四月的陣雨，還是工作中發生故障的兩輛吱吱作響的獨輪車，都無法阻止賓夕法尼亞州西部的十幾名FirstEnergy Green Team志願者爲威斯特摩蘭縣的社區花園補充五噸新鮮表土和堆肥。
"I can't thank yinz enough," said Lucy Bittner, Vice President of Jeanette Greenspaces, a nonprofit that for the past eight years has rented out garden plots on the corner of South Seventh and Clay streets in Jeanette, Pennsylvania, at a nominal fee to city residents without backyard space to grow fresh vegetables.
“我感激不盡，” Jeanette Greenspaces的副總裁露西·比特納說。Jeanette Greenspaces是一家非營利組織，在過去的八年中，它以象徵性的費用向沒有後院空間種植新鮮蔬菜的城市居民出租了位於賓夕法尼亞州珍妮特市南七街和克萊街拐角處的花園。
"We have elderly people on our board who are not physically able to help us with the work anymore," said Bittner, herself recovering from recent foot surgery. "FirstEnergy always steps up to help us."
比特納本人從最近的足部手術中恢復過來時說：“我們的董事會中有一些老年人，他們已經無法再幫助我們完成工作了。”“FirstEnergy 總是挺身而出幫助我們。”
The company's Green Team is comprised of company employees who volunteer their time and talents to support a wide variety of environmental initiatives, including tree-planting events and park cleanups.
公司的綠色團隊由公司員工組成，他們自願貢獻自己的時間和才能，支持各種環保舉措，包括植樹活動和公園清理。
"Is it raining? I thought I was sweating," said one burly Green Team volunteer, powering a heaping wheelbarrow uphill where other volunteers raked the new dirt into the boxes.
“下雨了嗎？我以爲我在流汗。” 一位身材魁梧的綠隊志願者說，他爲一輛堆滿的獨輪車上坡，其他志願者在那裏把新的泥土倒進箱子裏。
At the foot of the hill, FirstEnergy forester Jakob Radovic handed out 300 free white flowering dogwood saplings to anyone who asked. All trees were gone in two hours.
在山腳下，FirstEnergy林務員雅各布·拉多維奇向任何提出要求的人免費分發了300株白色開花的山茱蒿樹苗。兩小時內所有樹木都消失了。
"It's nice to give back to the community and plant trees that will help our local community flourish for many years to come without becoming an issue for a power company," he said.
他說：“回饋社區並種植樹木真是太好了，這將有助於我們的當地社區在未來許多年內蓬勃發展，而不會成爲電力公司的問題。”
Flowering dogwoods are a low-growing Pennsylvania-native species that do not interfere with the operation of overhead electric lines. The tree giveaway is part of FirstEnergy's continued commitment to the environment and the communities served by its electric companies. FirstEnergy has planted more than 67,000 trees across its service territory since the start of the initiative. The company's 2024 goal is to plant 25,000 more trees, with half earmarked for underserved communities such as Jeanette.
開花的山茱莉亞是賓夕法尼亞州的一種低生長物種，不會干擾架空電線的運行。贈送樹木是FirstEnergy對環境和電力公司所服務的社區的持續承諾的一部分。自該計劃啓動以來，FirstEnergy已在其服務區內種植了超過67,000棵樹。該公司2024年的目標是再種植25,000棵樹，其中一半專門用於珍妮特等服務不足的社區。
The spirit of giving proved contagious. Some people opened their wallets and donated money to Jeanette Greenspaces after picking up a tree. Another promised to stop back by with 30 bags of donated mulch. And a young couple new to town pledged their manual labor to help the vibrant plot.
事實證明，捐贈精神具有感染力。有些人在撿到一棵樹後打開了錢包，向珍妮特·格林斯帕斯捐了錢。另一位答應帶着30袋捐贈的覆蓋物停下來。一對剛來到城裏的年輕夫婦承諾用體力勞動來幫助這個充滿活力的情節。
"I just love participating in this initiative for FirstEnergy to give back to the community," said Taylor Hoffman, a fiberoptic engineer at FirstEnergy. "We all look forward to these events each year!"
FirstEnergy的光纖工程師泰勒·霍夫曼說：“我非常喜歡參與這項讓FirstEnergy回饋社區的計劃。”“我們都期待着每年的這些活動！”
For more information about FirstEnergy's environmental and corporate responsibility efforts to build a brighter and more sustainable future, visit fecorporateresponsibility.com.
有關FirstEnergy爲建設更光明、更可持續的未來所做的環境和企業責任努力的更多信息，請訪問 fecorporateresponbility.com。
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