O&R Donates $7,500, Helps Place Holiday Wreaths on West Point Graves
Approximately 30 Con Edison and O&R volunteers, their families and their friends braved last Saturday’s pouring rain to pay tribute to the heroic sacrifice of U.S soldiers interred at West Point by laying wreaths at more than 7,000 graves in the cemetery at the United States Military Academy there.
Through its Community Investment Committee (CIC), O&R also donated $7,500 to the annual Wreaths at West Point observance, a local project affiliated with the Wreaths Across America program. West Point’s cemetery is one of nearly 13,400 locations across the nation that place wreaths, including 248,000 wreaths on the graves at Arlington National Cemetery.
Pictured here last Saturday at West Point are, from left: O&R’s Mike Durling, his wife Cheryl (partially visible), Ryan Sweeney (in white Jets wool hat), Con Edison’s Jeannine Pietrobuono (speaking with Mike Durling), Diane Galvin and O&R’s Elizabeth Breunig.
About Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc., one of the nation’s largest investor-owned energy companies. O&R is a regulated utility that provides electric service to approximately 300,000 customers in southeastern New York State (where its franchise name is Orange & Rockland) and northern New Jersey (where it’s Rockland Electric Company), and natural gas service to approximately 130,000 customers in New York.