Preferred Mutual Insurance Company President and CEO Chris Taft (right) presents Friends of the Park representative Eric Larsen and BID Executive Director Pegi LoPresti with a $20,000 contribution for the renovations currently taking place in East and West Park. Construction is now in full swing on the restoration project and Taft said Preferred Mutual is “grateful to be part of such an exciting project, one that will benefit so many individuals within the greater Norwich area.” The project is expected to be finished in the early summer of 2011.