Your help will be appreciated
There will be an event of importance Saturday evening at the elementary school and we all should turn out for it. In fact, we should do more than just turn out for it. We should plan to eat a lot, bid on several items in the silent auction, and buy raffle tickets and baked goods like they are going out of style. We should write a good-sized check before we leave.
It could be a matter of life and death.
Some local folks have taken it upon themselves to raise funds for a thermal imaging camera for our volunteer fire department. Technology has made this amazing advancement in firefighting possible. A thermal imaging camera can detect people or pets trapped in a burning structure, detect areas that are unsafe for firemen to enter, or signal that a fire isn't really out even though it may look that way to the naked eye.
Being a member of a small volunteer fire department should not mean that our firefighters don't have what they need to save lives and be safer as they do so.
The benefit dinner, silent auction, bake sale, and raffle Saturday evening will give everyone a chance to contribute to a tool that could one day be instrumental in saving a life. This is a project everyone in Peabody should be willing to support.
Elsewhere in this edition of the Peabody Gazette-Bulletin is a report about the class of 1946 holding a 60-year reunion Memorial Day weekend. Collectively they made a generous contribution to the camera fund. They gave back to their hometown. What a nice thing for them to do!
I would urge you all to get behind the group that organized this event, make a contribution, and show up to eat, bid, and buy Saturday night. This project is a no-brainer. You can bet your life on it.
— SUSAN MARSHALL
