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CENTRAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GIVES $24,000 TO AREA FOOD BANKS Food banks across the state have been helping record numbers of residents as the COVID-19 pandemic left people without jobs or working fewer hours. The Central Community Foundation board approved $24,000 in assistance to area food banks. Programs receiving funds include: § Helping Hands Community Foundation, Chandler § Our Daily Bread, Stillwater § 4 Kids and Community, Perkins § Mehan Union Church Food Program § Perry Community Cares § Perry Food Pantry § Stroud Food Pantry § Langston Community Food Pantry
§ Luther Community Service Center § God’s Food Bank, Guthrie § Hilltop Country Church Food Pantry, Morrison § Orlando First Baptist Church The Central Community Foundation is a charitable organization established by Central Electric Cooperative to administer a program called Operation Round Up®. The foundation makes grants available to individuals and organizations throughout Central’s service area from the money donated by Central members who choose to round up their electric bill to the nearest dollar each month.
Helping Hands in Chandler benefited from the Central Community Foundation donation.
YOUTH TOUR WINNERS TO RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIPS Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Electric Cooperative Youth Tour to Washington, D.C. was canceled by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Central is saddened this year’s winners were not able to go on the trip that was slated for June 19-25.
However, the co-op will provide the winners with scholarships equivalent to the Youth Tour trip cost. Scholarships will be presented to Ethan McBride and Leah Brown at Central’s 81st Annual Meeting on Oct. 8, 2020.
Central Youth Tour winners Ethan McBride and Leah Brown will receive scholarships at the 81st Annual Meeting in lieu of the Youth Tour trip.