Housing Authority gets some free help cleaning up Ballard Green

Volunteers helped the Housing Authority, the agency that runs the towns subsidized housing and has had financial trouble for some time, with some free clean-up work at Ballard green. Erica Grant photo

Cleaning gutters, weeding gardens, power-washing buildings, a group of about 30 volunteers from the international insurance firm SwissRe spruced up the Ridgefield Housing Authoritys Ballard Green apartments, as a Habitat for Humanity project.

It was a boon to the agency that runs the towns subsidized housing that has had trouble making ends meet.

I know the Housing Authority faces big challenges, said Kent Rohrer, a Ridgefielder who volunteers for Housatonic Habitat for Humanity.

Mr. Rohrer and fellow Ridgefield Habitat volunteer Dave Choplinski organized the effort, which brought SwissRe volunteers to Ridgefield on Thursday, June 19.

Volunteers Heather Pergola and Aly Long from New Jersey helped with weeding at Ballard Green. Erica Grant photo

SwissRe used to be in Stamford but now their headquarters is in Armonk, Mr. Rohrer said. They have many volunteers in Fairfield-Westchester area.

The volunteers came from far and wide.

They came from all over the place New Jersey, Long Island, New York City. There were some Ridgefielders, some people from Trumbull, Easton and Greenwich, said Housing Authority Chairman Bob Hebert,

They tackled all the stuff that volunteers could do weeding, power-washing, cleaning gutters, that kind of thing.

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Housing Authority gets some free help cleaning up Ballard Green