Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is almost here! While we at Russo Bros. & Co. like to treat our customers like family, we know that you DON’T want us showing up at your house on Thanksgiving day! To keep your holiday as stress free as possible, here are a few tips:

• NEVER pour cooking oil or fats down your drain. Oil can solidify and clog your line. Wipe off greasy pans before putting them in the sink.
• Don’t treat your disposal like a trash can. Turkey bones and skin, potato peels, celery and other fibrous foods can clog and damage your drain and disposal. (Be good to the environment: start a compost pile!). When you do use the disposal, feed waste slowly and gradually to prevent overloading.
• Don’t operate the dishwasher if you think you have a disposal or drain problem.
• Follow the old adage; when it doubt, throw it out!

All of us at Russo Bros. & Co. wish you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving. Remember if you do need us, be it Thanksgiving or any other day, we are here to help

The Gettysburg Address

150 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln gave one of the most well known and brief speeches in American history. The Gettysburg Address is just 10 sentences long, but its words are as relevant today as they were in 1863. When was the last time you read Lincoln's iconic words?

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Veteran's Day

As President Harry S. Truman said: "Our debt to the heroic men and valient women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices." We couldn't agree more. Thank you to all who serve.