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AVANGRID Volunteers Share Joy of Reading in New Haven & Ansonia
19 volunteers from AVANGRID and its CT subsidiaries dropped by New Haven and Ansonia elementary schools to share their love of r
ORANGE, Connecticut — Nov. 2, 2017 — Nineteen volunteers from AVANGRID, Inc. and its subsidiaries in Connecticut dropped by New Haven and Ansonia elementary schools recently to share their love of literacy with local schoolchildren.
Ten employee volunteers spent the morning of Oct. 27 with kids in kindergarten through third grade at Wexler-Grant Elementary School in New Haven. Another group of nine visited classrooms at John C. Mead School in Ansonia.
The Read Aloud Day event was organized by AVANGRID’s Employee Volunteer Council in Connecticut. AVANGRID, a diversified U.S. energy company, is the parent company of Orange-based United Illuminating and Southern Connecticut Gas, and East Hartford-based Connecticut Natural Gas.
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From left: Boris Yuditskiy, Lucia Palmieri, Colleen Morrison, Phil Surato, Mary Lou Palmieri, Bridgette Hoskie, Ed Crowder, Cynthia Hines and Marietta King at Wexler-Grant Community School in New Haven.
AVANGRID’s Bridgette Hoskie captivates an audience of first-graders at Wexler-Grant Community School, reading “Plenty of Love to Go Around” by Emma Chichester Clark.
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From left: Anna Antonucci, Uyen Thy Ho, Lori DeStefano, Deborah Dellavolpe, Iliana Maturino, Lee Feder and Eileen Lopez-Cordone at John C. Mead School in Ansonia (not shown: Cliff Cronan and Tracy Maus).
AVANGRID’s Deborah Dellavolpe enthralls second-graders with her reading of Daniel Kirk’s “Rhino in the House” at Ansonia’s John C. Mead School.
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About AVANGRID: AVANGRID, Inc. (NYSE: AGR) is a diversified energy and utility company with more than $31 billion in assets and operations in 27 states. The company owns regulated utilities and electricity generation assets through two primary lines of business, Avangrid Networks and Avangrid Renewables. Avangrid Networks is comprised of eight electric and natural gas utilities, serving approximately 3.2 million customers in New York and New England. Avangrid Renewables operates more than 6 gigawatts of owned and controlled renewable generation capacity, primarily through wind and solar, in 22 states across the United States. AVANGRID employs approximately 6,800 people. For more information, visit www.avangrid.com.
