Care to Ride event raises $72,000+ for Oil Heat Cares

Oil Heat Cares is the National Association of Oil and Energy Service Professionals' charity arm that provides donated or free oil-heating equipment and free labor to homeowners in need.

Plumbing & Mechanical Managing Editor Kelly Faloon (left) hands OHC check to OESP Executive Director Judy Garber (right), with PM columnist and OHC board member Dan Holohan. Photo credit: Plumbing & Mechanical.

At this year’s Oil & Energy Service Professionals’ convention and trade show in Providence, R.I., the annual Care to Ride event (which includes motor bikes, bicycles, walkers and runners) raised more than $72,000 for Oil Heat Cares, the group’s charity arm that provides donated or free oil-heating equipment and free labor to homeowners in need.

Each May, Plumbing & Mechanical writes a feature highlighting several of these projects -click here to read the May 2012 feature. We also give a percentage of the article’s ad proceeds to OHC. You can see me on the left in the accompanying photo handing a check to OESP Executive DirectorJudy Garber, with PM columnist and OHC board member

Dan Holohan.

Stay tuned for more on the convention and trade show in the next enewsletter and online.

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National Association of Oil and Energy Service Professionals

Kelly Faloon was a former editor of Plumbing & Mechanical as well as the BNP Media Plumbing Group’s Integrated Content Development Specialist. She also was a former editor of the Radiant Comfort Guide the Radiant & Hydronics Report — both official publications of the Radiant Professionals Alliance — and twice-monthly Radiant & Hydronics eNews, an enewsletter for anyone interested in the world of heating with hot water.

Her editorial specialties included women in plumbing, recruiting for the trades, green construction techniques, water conservation, water treatment, hydronic heating, radiant heating and cooling, snow melt, solar thermal and geothermal.

After a 3½-year stint at sister publication Supply House Times, Faloon joined the PM staff in December 2001 as senior editor. She was named PM’s managing editor in 2006 and editor in 2013.

Previously, she spent nearly 10 years at CCH, a publishing firm specializing in business and tax law, where she wore many hats — proofreader, writer/editor for a daily tax publication, and Internal Revenue Code editor.

A native of Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula, Faloon is a 1986 journalism graduate of Michigan State University.