SLATE VALLEY MUSEUM RECEIVES $1,000 UNSOLICITED DONATION FROM LOCAL SLATE COMPANY THE GIFT TO THE MUSEUM IS DESIGNATED FOR ITS HURRICANE IRENE RESTORATION WORK, by Janice B. Edwards, freelance writer

Evergreen Slate Company, Inc. recently presented an unsolicited gift of $1,000 to the Slate Valley Museum to aid the Museum in its recovery work necessitated from significant damages incurred when Hurricane Irene passed over both Vermont and New York State. Evergreen Slate Company, Inc.s President Fred Whitridge and Corporate Secretary Bob Jenks presented the corporations gift to Kate Weller, Director of Slate Valley Museum. Director Weller expressed gratitude to Evergreen Slate Company on behalf of Slate Valley Museum . Weller further explained that the storm which ravaged the Northeast forced the Museum to close its doors to the public for a month. It only recently reopened, however, not all restoration work to the building, equipment and collections are completed. Weller said that over $50,000 in damages occurred which is far beyond what insurance will cover and that the support by Evergreen Slate Company, Inc. with this generous gift will help the Museum to continue the forward movement in its restoration efforts.Evergreen Slate Company, Inc. is a founding member of the Slate Valley Museum . The company was founded in Granville in 1916 by the Hicks family, a local immigrant family from Great Britain . Evergreen Slate Company, Inc. owns or controls quarries and production mills in New York and Vermont.Production mills in Granville and Middle Granville re not far from the historic defunct railroad lines which transported many hundreds of thousands of squares of slate out of this valley from the 1850s into the 1970s when roadway transportation became the mode of shipment. Evergreens sales and business office is located in Granville village. In addition to its membership with Slate Valley Museum, Evergreen Slate Company, Inc. is also a member of the National Slate Association, the National Roofing Contractors Association, the Granville Chamber of Commerce and Poultney Chamber of Commerce.Slate Valley Museum works to preserve and promote the heritage of the Vermont / New York ( USA ) Slate Valley and its industry which, historically, includes a tremendous amount of data about the immigrants from all of the nations in Great Britain as well as from several European nations including France , Italy , Poland and Czechoslovakia. www.slatevalleymuseum.org .Contacts for more information include: Kate Weller, Director, Slate Valley Museum , 17 Water Street , Granville , NY 12832 , www.slatevalleymuseum.org or Thomas Collard, Sales Manager, Evergreen Slate Company, 68 E. Potter Ave. , Granville , NY 12832 , www.evergreenslate.com .Granville, New York, U.S.A.