Georgia Magazine - December 2022 - 15

SHORTTakes
In focus: The Wrens Fire Department used
a grant of $8,990 from Jefferson Energy
Cooperative in Wrens to purchase thermalimaging
cameras that will help firefighters
locate humans and animals in need of
rescue from burning buildings. The funds
came from Jefferson Energy's Operation
Round Up program, in which members opt
to round their monthly bills to the nearest
dollar and the difference goes into a fund
that supports charitable causes in the
community.
Members of the Callaway High School marching band in Hogansville perform in their
new uniforms. The uniforms, which replaced worn-out hand-me-downs from another
high school, were bought with donations that included $10,000 from the LaGrange-based
Diverse Power Foundation.
Diverse Power Foundation
helps high school band suit up
W
hen Lisa Booth, executive assistant
at LaGrange-based Diverse Power,
read a news story about the need for
new uniforms for a local high school's marching
band, it touched her heart.
" Callaway High School [in Hogansville] was
given the old band uniforms from LaGrange
High School about nine years ago. They
literally took off the LHS patches and sewed
on CHS patches, " she says. " The uniforms were
already old and about to be discarded. After 20
years of use, the uniforms had become threadbare
and unusable. "
Booth, who had fond memories of her own
The foundation's board
agreed to donate $10,000,
which was presented at a
pep rally in November 2021.
Thanks to the donation,
along with money raised
by band members and a
matching grant from the
Callaway Foundation, the
band achieved the
necessary total of $34,000.
time in the marching band at Troup County High School in LaGrange, began
looking for ways to support the CHS band and reached out to the Diverse Power
Foundation for a possible donation using Operation Round Up funds.
The foundation's board agreed to donate $10,000, which was presented at a
pep rally in November 2021. Thanks to the donation, along with money raised by
band members and a matching grant from the Callaway Foundation, the band
achieved the necessary total of $34,000.
The band performed in the new uniforms for the first time at a game against
Redan High School from Stone Mountain on Sept. 23.
" Not saying the uniforms had anything to do with it, but ... Callaway won the
game, 44 to 12. Go Cavaliers! " Booth says.
Donations like this are made possible by electric membership cooperative
members who opt to round their monthly bills to the nearest dollar, with the
difference going toward charitable causes in the community.
Victory formation: Walton Gas, a
division of Monroe-based Walton EMC,
makes a charitable donation of $1,000 for
every regular-season win by the University
of Georgia (UGA) football team and
$5,000 for every bowl win through its
Champions for Charity program. Thanks
to UGA's national championship last year,
Walton Gas divided $37,000 among three
organizations: Children's Healthcare of
Atlanta, Camp Twin Lakes and the
Salvation Army. To vote for which charity
should get the largest slice of the total
donation, go to waltongas.com/uga.
Home renovation: The Central Georgia
EMC Foundation in Jackson donated
$2,000 in Operation Round Up funds to
the Griffin Area Habitat for Humanity. The
organization will use the money to make
necessary repairs to the home of a disabled
veteran.
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Scholarships awarded: North Georgia
Electric Membership Corp. (EMC) in Dalton
presented nine local students with the
cooperative's $2,500 Chairman's
Memorial Scholarship in July. The
scholarship is named for former board
members Howard Baker and Gerald Lowery.
COURTESY CALLAWAY HIGH SCHOOL
COURTESY WALTON EMC
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