Bank employees help animals
CORRECTION 1/23/15: An earlier version of this story misstated the recipient of Chelsea Groton Bank's donation. The bank donated $160 to the Groton Animal Foundation.
In March 2014, Chelsea Groton Bank announced a community gift initiative 160 Acts of Kindness to celebrate the bank's 160th anniversary. Throughout the rest of the year, the bank donated $160 to over 200 causes selected by employees.
Head Teller Jo-Ann Lewis chose a donation to be made to the Groton Animal Foundation
in honor of Gizmo, a maltese rescued from a 2011 cruelty case and later adopted by a Mystic couple.
Lewis said she was motivated to donate in honor of the rescue Gizmo because of her own dog, a Shih Tzu also named Gizmo, who died in 2009 after being with Lewis for 12 years.
"I thought this organization would benefit by paying it forward in Gizzy's honor. I'm pleased to know there is help for so many animals in need," Lewis said.
On January 5, Gizmo's owners, Carol and Paul Shinn, brought him to the Niantic Branch of Chelsea Groton Bank to meet Lewis and thank her.
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