CARROLL WHITE REMC OPERATION ROUND UP TRUSTEES GRANT $10,875 THIS QUARTER

The $2,000 Operation Round Up grant will help finance fees for 22 Frontier High School students qualified to attend the BPA National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, California, from April 26-30.

In the second quarter of 2023, Carroll White REMC’s Operation Round Up Board of Trustees granted $10,875 to 11 nonprofits in the service territory.

Frontier Schools received two major grants in this cycle with $2,750 being earmarked for the Frontier High School Chapter of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) and $2,000 for Frontier High School Business Professionals of America (BPA).

The grant money given to Frontier’s FCCLA Chapter will provide financial assistance to attend the 2023 FCCLA National Leadership Conference (NLC) in Denver, Colorado, from July 2-6. NLC is a student leadership conference for middle and high school students and their family and consumer sciences educators.

This event is the largest annual gathering of family and consumer sciences professionals and students across the country. Twenty-nine Frontier students qualified to attend the FCCLA National Leadership Conference, and 25 students will be attending and competing at Nationals.

At this event, approximately 6,000 delegates from across the country will vie for top honors in business and information technology skills competitions, attend leadership and professional development workshops and receive awards for community service activities.

“BPA is a wonderful organization,” said Frontier’s BPA Advisor Jennifer Newcom. “Our students learn so much from planning, organizing and presenting a project, to honing their craft in an area of design. To have 20 national qualifiers and two alternates qualify for this honor is outstanding for a school of our size!”

Three local nonprofits earned $1,000 in Operation Round Up grants this quarter: Honey Creek Township, Remington Parks Department and West Central Music Boosters.

The Honey Creek Township Trustee will use the $1,000 grant to assist in purchasing a sound system at the former Reynolds Elementary School building, located in Reynolds. The Reynolds Elementary School building was closed in 2012 when the North

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