“Hearing about Ukraine’s needs, I wanted to help any way I could,” said Matthew Rorick, Napa-based owner of Forlorn Hope Wines and Queen of the Sierra, a 75-acre vineyard in Calaveras County. Until hostilities cease, the goal is to find ways to fund and implement a project involving the mass production of a low-cost, shatterproof temporary alternative to glass that can be installed quickly with the help of locally trained - and paid - workers to start the repair process and improve local economies. ![]() This critical need formed the foundation for a U.S.-Ukraine friendship between a vineyard owner in Napa and a British engineer working to solve the nationwide replacement challenge estimated to involve 10 million destroyed windows. ![]() With subzero winter temperatures less than three months away, Ukraine residents returning home following Russian withdrawals face the daunting task of replacing thousands of blown-out glass windows in otherwise habitable dwellings to block cold air and keep them warm.
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