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Missing woman found

By mark  |  2011/10/08 12:00 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

Project Lifesaver – is one of the major initiatives of the Future of Middleboro Trust. It supplies equipment and training that helps emergency responders to locate someone who has wandered off. Several Middleboro residents have been supplied with the locater bracelets that can be tracked.

We are relieved and gratified that the device has helped find a woman on Friday Oct 7:


Project Life Saver’s GPS system was instrumental in locating an elderly woman who wandered from her home early Friday morning.

Police Chief Bruce D. Gates said the woman was reported missing from her Rocky Meadow Street home at 3 a.m.

Sgt. Joseph M. Perkins scrambled the State Police air wing and called in officer Jerry J. Donahue and his dog, Caro, while officers Mark E. Meaney, Richard Harvey and Nathan J. Ferbert began searching.

Gates said Project Lifesaver activated a tracking device the woman was wearing on a bracelet and within 90 minutes she was found a few houses away, sitting in a neighbor’s van in her nightgown and shivering, Gates said.

Gates said an ambulance took her to Jordan Hospital in Plymouth to be checked.

Project Life Saver was donated to the town by the Future of Middleboro Trust.

Gates said several residents wear the bracelets for emergency situations. Gates said Ed Beaulieu, a trustee, raised the money by selling a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle of the Town Hall.

“It worked great and did what it was designed to do,” Gates said of the bracelet.

Project Lifesaver in the news

By mark  |  2010/06/21 10:25 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

The Brockton Enterprise covered the recent milestones for the Middleboro area implementation of Project Lifesaver.

Project Life Saver, which helps track individuals who are afflicted with an illness that cause them to wander, is close to being implemented in the town.

Ed Beaulieu, a trustee for The Future of Middleboro Trust, which is sponsoring the program, said training was completed last week for police, fire, and health department personnel.

“It will be up and running very shortly,” said Beaulieu.

Due to its size, Middleboro requires four receivers and they currently have two. The trustees are seeking to raise an additional $4,800 for the receivers.

Christmas Parade donation

By mark  |  2009/11/08 22:07 Posted in News  |  Comments (1)

On Saturday November 7, the Trustees of the Future of Middleborough Trust voted unanimously to donate $300 to support the Middleborough Christmas Parade.  Parade organizers were running a $900 deficit.  This was partially offset by a $450 donation from the Law Offices of Adam Bond and by $300 from the Trust.

FOMT purchases handicap swing

By mark  |  2009/06/08 21:27 Posted in News  |  Comments (1)

FOMT Trustees present check to Parks Dept.

FOMT Trustees present check to Parks Dept.

The Future of Middleboro Trust presented a check to the Middleboro Parks Department for purchase of a handicap swing for the Peirce Playground. The existing swing had been destroyed by vandals. The swing fully supports the user and has restraints that secure disabled or young children.

The board of trustees would like to thank the Middleboro citizens who attended our fundraisers or donated money.