PRESS PHOTO BY JIM MARSH

Firefighter Ralph Uff, who recently turned 80-years-old, and a volunteer with Western Salisbury Fire Department for 30 years, helps stuff envelopes with a second appeal for contributions from residents living in the WSFD fire district. "Only 35 percent of the residences in our fire district have sent in donations since our first appeal in early April," Fire Chief Joshua Wells said. "Please reconsider our request," Wells said in the second appeal which went into the mail last week. "Your contributions provide us the revenue to operate the fire company's two stations, purchase and maintain firefighting equipment and provide training for our firefighters."