Walton EMC donates to Lawrenceville Co-op
By Staff Reports

MONROE, Ga. (Feb. 21, 2014) - The latest grants from Walton Electric Membership Corporation's (EMC) Operation Round Up are being put to good use all over the cooperative's 10-county Northeast Georgia service area. To be exact, $104,187.17 went to 13 worthy organizations and 13 needy families in the latest round of disbursements.

The money is collected a few cents at a time when customer-owners allow their monthly bill to be rounded up to the next dollar. The resulting change goes into a fund administered by a volunteer board. None of this money can be used to pay electric bills. Here are the latest good works being funded by generous Walton EMC customer-owners:

Clarke County Mentor Program - $5,000, community mentor recruitment

Tiny Stitches (Gwinnett) - $5,000, supplies to make infant burial ensembles for disadvantaged newborns

Creative Enterprises (Barrow, DeKalb, Gwinnett) - $5,000, disabled clients fees to attend therapeutic horse riding program

Atlanta Community Food Bank (entire WEMC service area) - $10,000, low-income family food distribution

Loganville Police DARE - $3,000, drug and gang resistance education

Place of Seven Springs (Gwinnett) - $5,000, food, prescription drug and education assistance for families

Food Bank of Northeast Georgia (Barrow, Clarke, Oconee) - $10,000, mobile food pantry

Project Safe (entire WEMC Service area) - $2,000, emergency shelter improvements

Step by Step Recovery (Barrow, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Newton, Rockdale, Walton) - $5,000, addiction recovery program

Walton County 4-H - $9,935, club member participation expenses to attend events

Oconee County Wee Read - $1,200, encouragement of parental reading to young children

Gwinnett County Senior Golden Games (DeKalb, Gwinnett, Walton) - $500, senior adult Olympics

Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry (Gwinnett) - $15,000, emergency assistance to clients

13 families - $27,552.17, various emergency needs

Walton EMC is a customer-owned power company that serves 121,000 accounts in a 10-county area between Atlanta and Athens.