Lest there be any confusion, this Greece is near Rochester NY-
After 80-year-old John Montstream went up on a 24-foot-tall high-lift to change light bulbs over his church’s altar, he joked that he had drawn the short straw.
But while Montstream went up on the lift, he is not alone in the work he does for his church.
A group of retirees meets every Tuesday morning at Trinity Episcopal Church to discuss the latest problems facing their parish.
They are also responsible for saving their church about $5,000 in energy costs and countless thousands of dollars on grounds maintenance.
The group calls itself the A-Team.
“We weren’t going to call ourselves the B-Team,” joked Montstream.
Montstream, a mechanical engineer retired from Eastman Kodak Co., organized with the other A-Team members to make the building more energy-efficient.
The team put heaters in the church underneath thermometers, so that the building would use less power to heat the building when no one was there. They also had a temperature controller installed on the boiler so that if it was warm outside, the boiler temperature would go down.
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http://rocnow.com/article/our-towns/20107140302
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