More financial help is on the way for people staggering under the weight of high utility bills.
The donations were announced at a news conference yesterday, where Robert Ukrop, chief executive officer of Ukrop's Super Markets, issued a challenge. We as a community should join together to help. The fund distributes money from Dominion Virginia Power's EnergyShare program and from Richmond's Metro Care program. While 331 people have received aid since December, about 2,000 people have been turned away since January. She and her two daughters have been using electric heaters to supplement the heat from the furnace.