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Berkheimer gives computers to low-income program

The Computer Learning Center, serviced by Better Tomorrows at Shirley Futch Plaza, received five computers from Berkheimer Business Services of Bangor.

Better Tomorrows is dedicated to empowering low-income people and the communities where they reside. It works to ensure that their voices are heard and enable them to create stronger communities, beginning with themselves. It supports and strengthens individuals by creating new mindsets and eliminating the mental chains that keep people suppressed.

Their hands-on innovative programs focus on life-skills, household maintenance, health and wellness, computer literacy, financial education, entrepreneurship and youth enrichment.

Shirley Futch Plaza is an affordable housing apartment complex for senior citizens and the physically handicapped and/or disabled. The newer, faster computers will give the residents of Shirley Futch Plaza better opportunities to do medical and genealogy research, bank online, listen to music and stay in touch with family, friends and others.

Due to the sensitivity of the information Berkheimer supports, all of the computers were reformatted and all of the original software was removed. Lydia Strunk, Berkheimer's director of Accounting Services, and her husband, Dan, purchased and donated five copies of the Windows operating system for each computer.