Coastal Electric members fund $30,000 in scholarships to local students

Coastal Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive mem­bers are help­ing local stu­dents pur­sue their dreams by way of more than $30,000 in schol­ar­ships.

Lib­er­ty Coun­ty High School grad­u­ate Kordell Lewis won a Coastal Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive Foun­da­tion Tech­ni­cal School Schol­ar­ship for $1,350. The schol­ar­ship is renew­able as he pur­sues his planned pro­gram of study—welding and join­ing technology—at Savan­nah Tech­ni­cal Col­lege.

In addi­tion, recent grad­u­ates Skye Key (Brad­well Insti­tute), Ira Tim­mons (McIn­tosh Coun­ty Acad­e­my), Rebec­ca Clark (Lib­er­ty Coun­ty High School), Gun­ner Kesner (Lib­er­ty Coun­ty High School), Gretchen Gray (Rich­mond Hill High School) and Rachel Gre­go­ry (Rich­mond Hill High School) each earned a $5,000 Coastal Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive Foun­da­tion Aca­d­e­m­ic Schol­ar­ship for their first semes­ter of col­lege. Each schol­ar­ship is renew­able for up to four years for a total of $20,000.

Pri­ma­ry fund­ing for Coastal Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive Foun­da­tion schol­ar­ships comes from Oper­a­tion Round Up, a vol­un­tary pro­gram through which Coastal Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive mem­bers allow their elec­tric bills to be round­ed up to the next whole dol­lar each month. That spare change is invest­ed back into the com­mu­ni­ty through the foun­da­tion to meet the food, health, safe­ty, edu­ca­tion, and shel­ter needs of cit­i­zens in Bryan, Lib­er­ty, Long, and McIn­tosh coun­ties.