UMaine students paint veteran’s house, WABI, WLBZ report
Cameras from WABI (Channel 5) and WLBZ (Channel 2) were rolling on Veterans Day, when a group of University of Maine students volunteered their time to paint the home of a disabled U.S. Navy veteran in Milford. Rachel Putnam, who served in the Navy for 20 years, has multiple sclerosis and can’t take on large, home-improvement projects by herself. So Putnam got in touch with the Alternative Breaks program at UMaine’s Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism, which arranged for a team of students to come out and give her a hand. “I’m retired Navy and this is a very special day to me and to my fellow veteran friends,” Putnam told WABI. “They are doing an awesome job and I appreciate it so much.”