Operation Fuel Executive Director Patricia Wrice

L-R: Patricia Wrice, Robert Poole, Edith Karsky, Sen. Martin Looney, Jeff Butler and Dr. James Gatlin

On Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011, Operation Fuel and the Connecticut Association for Community Action (CAFCA) asked Congress not to cut $2.5 billion from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) but instead to keep next year’s funding at the 2011 level of $5.1 billion.

Operation Fuel and CAFCA held a joint news conference as part of the National Fuel Funds Network’s second annual Summer LIHEAP Action Day, which is today. They were joined by Rep. Vickie Orsini Nardello of the 89^th District and Sen. Martin Looney, Majority Leader of the Senate.
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For all the latest, up-to-date information about what’s going on at Operation Fuel, check out the Summer 2011 edition of our newsletter, Inside The Operation!

The Fairfield County Community Foundation has awarded a $15,000 grant to Operation Fuel to help support the non-profit’s emergency energy assistance program for lower-income families and elderly residents in Fairfield County.
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(L-R) George Coling, Executive Director, National Fuel Funds Network; Pat Wrice, Executive Director, Operation Fuel; Tom Stovall, Chairman of the Board, National Fuel Funds Network

The National Fuel Funds Network recently awarded Operation Fuel’s executive director, Patricia Wrice with the Sister Pat Kelly Achievement Award.  The award, National Fuel Funds highest honor, recognizes exemplary personal achievement in furthering an organization’s goals, increasing public awareness of low-income energy problems, advancing energy assistance policy and promoting charitable energy assistance.

Ms. Wrice has been the driving force at Operation Fuel for the past fourteen years.