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River Heights Chamber Member Tributes Huebsch Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, personal protective equipment has been a needed resource that is in short supply. Huebsch Services recognized this need early on and made a commitment to use the company’s connections throughout the world to source N95 masks. This week, Huebsch Services donated 8,000 N95 face masks to the communities Huebsch calls home – Eau Claire and Chippewa Counties in Wisconsin and Dakota County in Minnesota. The emergency management teams in these counties can identify the areas of greatest need for this personal protective equipment and distribute the N95 face masks to medical personnel and first responders throughout the local communities. “Helping others is at the core of what we do at Huebsch,” says Fourth Generation President and CEO Jim Vaudreuil. “Thank you to all the first responders and medical personnel in our communities. We hope this donation helps you to be protected as you continue to care for our communities.” In addition to the donation of 8,000 N95 face masks, Huebsch has also been producing fabric face masks for its employees and continues to support the Mask Beez community face mask initiative in the Eau Claire area. As of beginning of June, Huebsch has picked up, laundered, and then delivered 17,115 new fabric face masks back to the medical community through the Mask Beez program. Town Square Television One very unique project this summer has been producing virtual video graduation ceremonies to allow friends and family of the Class of 2020 to recognize their achievements as the end of their senior year was taken away. Each school had unique ideas for creating safe and socially distanced virtual celebrations. As one Valedictorian said in her speech, “We didn’t get a proper send-off, and we didn’t get a proper good-bye…” Town Square Television was thrilled to help produce fun and meaningful graduation videos, and with the support of Volkswagen of Inver Grove, to provide a free keepsake digital download to every family. Town Square Television’s high definition production truck captures Henry Sibley H.S. Class of 2020 select student speaker Emily as she records her speech on Warrior Field for virtual graduation ceremony Thousands of graduates, relatives, and friends tuned in live and on-demand to view the programs on Comcast and CenturyLink cable, Facebook, townsquare.tv, Vimeo, and YouTube. The first event captured 4,500 Facebook Live views and another 1,000 in the following two days. TST Catering Over the past couple months, we have tried to do our part to “Pay It Forward” in our community. To date, we have donated over 2,400 meals and discounted another 3,000 meals to those in need, including hospital staff, first responders and struggling families. As an average, that is more than 350 meals for each one of our employees that we have provided to those in need. In addition, we have continued our operations to senior homes, childcare centers and a few of our corporate customers. www.riverheights.com | River Heights Chamber of Commerce 19