Barron Heating AC Electrical & Plumbing gives heat pumps, furnaces to Skagit residents
Barron Heating AC Electrical & Plumbing recently announced five recipients from its annual Christmas in July and Furnace Fund giving events, helping families and individuals in need in Skagit, Whatcom, Island, San Juan, and Snohomish counties. Due to pandemic-related supply chain challenges Barron selected this year’s Furnace Fund recipients earlier than usual. While recommendations are typically taken through November, the timeline was moved up to source and provide families with heat this winter.
Depending on their situation, recipients received either a single-zone Daikin Ductless Heat Pump or a new Lennox furnace. The value of the heat pumps and furnace with installation is estimated at more than $25,000.
“We are grateful to receive so many nominations from our customers about good families in our communities who are facing difficult challenges,” said John Barron, owner of Barron Heating AC Electrical & Plumbing. “It’s an honor to provide these five recipients with energy efficient heating and cooling, especially while faced with continued labor and supply shortages. We’re really committed to fulfilling our mission of improving lives in Northwest Washington.”
The recipients are:
* Edna Peacher of Burlington – Known to always put others first, Edna Peacher is a loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother who has fallen on hard times. She has battled breast cancer since 2017, working hard throughout her treatments to try and make ends meet. A true fighter, she is now proud to say she is a cancer survivor. Without adequate heat, Edna has used space heaters in her home to try and make do. But this season is looking a little brighter for Edna as Barron installed a new single-head Daikin ductless system.
* Don and Diana Jackson of Sedro-Woolley – The Jacksons received many Christmas in July recommendations, each citing what loving and giving people they are. The couple shares a home with their adult special needs son; all three are on disability and having fallen on very hard times. Don is battling progressed cancer. With a failed furnace and no cooling in their mobile home, the summer heat was unbearable — and soon the cold will be, too. With limited finances and relying on space heaters alone, the Jacksons deservingly received the gift of a Daikin ductless system — one that will make their home more comfortable year-round.
* Kim Eagle of Bellingham – A longtime gardener and two-time cancer survivor, Kim recently was involved in a devastating accident. While shoveling bark roadside at a customer’s home, a driver hit her from behind, pinning Kim to her work trailer. On top of a broken pelvis and abdominal injuries, both of Kim’s legs had to be amputated, leaving her with a long road of recovery. She already had a furnace with problems, so Barron installed a new Daikin ductless heat pump system, while her family and friends have been remodeling Kim’s space to accommodate her wheelchair — a well-deserved outpouring of support to make her life comfortable for the season ahead.
* Stacy and Darell Smith of Bellingham – Stacy is director at the Firs After School Program and Forest School in Bellingham, and the couple has been very influential in the lives of numerous children over the years — many in the foster care system. Darell suffers from Multiple Sclerosis, a disease close to the hearts of the Barron family, which has left him wheelchair-bound for many years. Relying on his disability and Stacy’s single income, a new system was out of reach on their own. Barron was honored to provide the couple with a two-head Daikin ductless system.
* Michelle Moulds of Bellingham – Michelle is a true example of selflessness and care for others. An occupational therapist working at a hospital, she looks after her 95-year-old father and opened her home to foster a little boy who she later adopted. Michelle began reducing her hours at work to accommodate the needs of her father and son. And with childcare costs increasing, their failing furnace was pushed to the bottom of their list of needs. The Barron team installed an efficient Lennox furnace, providing them with the gift of comfort and warmth in their home.
Committed to improving lives through its Air Solutions team and Certified Home Performance Experts, Barron provides a wide range of heating, cooling, solar, electrical, plumbing, and indoor air quality products and services, as well as a large selection of stoves and fireplaces in its Firelight by Barron showrooms.
Barron Heating AC Electrical & Plumbing has become one of Northwest Washington’s largest and most respected home performance experts with showroom locations in Burlington and Ferndale and an office location in Marysville. Approximately 160 employees serve customers in Skagit, Whatcom, Island, San Juan and Snohomish counties.
The Burlington showroom is at 560 S. Burlington Blvd., just north of Rio Vista Avenue. For more information, call (360) 424-4962 or visit www.barronheating.com.