M&R Service Donates Furnace for Charity Raffle

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  Here at M&R, we’ve been in business since 1954. It’s been a family business since then. We’ve grown a lot in the last few years. We used to be just plumbing, but now we offer HVAC, electric, and restoration. We still like to call ourself a small family business, even though we’ve grown a lot, and we still stand on those small company values, which are faith, family, health, service, and consistency. Our name is M&R Service, and so not only do we provide service to households in the trades that we provide, we also just really like to provide services to our community. In 2022, we began our charity, which is called the Treston Project. How that works is every review that we receive through Google, if you call our office, through Yelp, any review we receive, five star or one star, we donate $20 of our own revenue into a fund. And when that reaches $10,000, we donate that to a family in the community. Belin, she was going through a really rough time in life. Her daughter was suffering with brain cancer and she had also been diagnosed with breast cancer. So she was our very first Trust and Project recipient. Four years later, Belin is still going through breast cancer and she is on hospice. The Basin Good Neighbor Foundation provides hospice care to families who are in need of it.

  Our annual fundraiser for the Basin Good Neighbor Foundation was October 10th. It’s called Neighbor Fest. For that event, we have items donated for the raffle, and M&R came to us with an idea to donate a furnace and the professional installation. They want the proceeds to go to a local hospice family.

  We are donating a furnace, including installation, to a family that needs it. The raffle tickets are $20 a piece, and all of the proceeds of that will go to Belin to help pay for her hospice care. It’s going until December 14th, and we’re just trying to get them as, as much funds as we can just to help for this hard time in their life right now.

  The Basin Good Neighbor Foundation is a hospice foundation here in San Juan County. It was founded in 2018 by the owner of Basin Health Companies. We’ve been taking care of hospice patients in San Juan County since then who cannot afford their care. In order to understand how we can impact the community, you kind of have to understand hospice in general. It’s a hard subject. People don’t like to talk about it for good reason. But, you know, when someone decides to stop curative treatment and go on hospice, we don’t feel that the financial barrier should be the reason they don’t receive that compassionate care at the end of their life. So you can go to our Facebook page, you can go to our website, basingoodneighbor.org. You can always call and talk to me about the foundation. Our number’s 505-325-8231 and just ask for me, Nicole. We are primarily community funded. So I always say this, we have a very generous community. So there’s always businesses who are willing to step up like M&R and partner with us. We love that. We love partnering with the community to bring more money in so that we can take care of, of more people.

  The best way to purchase is we had the link posted on our social medias accounts. So you could go to the M&R Service account or the Basin Good Neighbor Foundation account, and those links are on there to purchase that. Your name will go straight into the, the raffle drawing. That’s the easiest way to do it. If you want to, you can contact me, Rachel at M&R Service or Nicole Clark at Basin.

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