Derwent Fire Department Donates
This past May the Derwent Fire Department planted 21 acres of wheat for its 2nd annual STARS Air Ambulance fundraiser, and their goal was to beat their previous year’s total of $17,500 and they did it by $2,500. “Thirteen thousand seven hundred came from the crop sale, and the rest was from donations totaling $20,000,” said Deputy Chief for the Derwent Fire Department Ed Mailhot. Mailhot said that they chose STARS because a large portion of the cost to operate the STARS air a