2 years ago
BANGOR (NEWS CENTER)--Agencies that provide heating aid to low income Mainers in eastern and northern Maine had an opportunity to meet with Senator Olympia Snowe Wednesday. Penquis held the meeting at its office in Bangor.
Representatives of community action agencies in Penobscot, Washington, Hancock, Waldo, and Aroostook Counties told Senator Snowe that they were seeing an increased demand for heating assistance. They also urged Senator Snowe to get Congress to increase federal heating assistance this winter.
Tim King of the Washington-Hancock Community Agency said, "I expect she's going to take back the information she has and share it with her colleagues. The information about how desperate things will be in Maine, how concerned people are right now, how afraid the clients are in Maine and she'll be able to convince them of the need to significantly increase heating assistance."
Nearly 50,000 Maine families received federal heating assistance last year.
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