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Bottles of Hope: Connecticut Operator Sends Water to Flint

It only takes one person, filled with compassion and ambition, to make a difference. Here's how one operator is helping the people of Flint, Michigan.
  • By Sharon Verbeten
  • May 04, 2016

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Bottles of Hope: Connecticut Operator Sends Water to Flint
Ken Hinson, a utility operator for The Metropolitan District-Hartford, Connecticut (MDC), started a grass-roots effort to collect cases of bottled water for the people of Flint, Michigan.

“I saw it on the news, and I just needed to do something.”

That’s what New Englander Ken Hinson said when he watched recent news coverage of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. And even though the Midwest city is about 700 miles from Hinson’s home in Torrington, Connecticut,...

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