Beta Club Receives $1,000 Donation for Nationals

Jasper County High School Beta Club received a $1,000 grant from the Central Georgia EMC Foundation. The funds will be used to help send 27 students to compete in the Beta Club National Convention.

“We are very grateful for the support of the CGEMC Foundation,” said Beta Advisor Cheryl Jacobs. “We have never sent so many students to the convention and it’s exciting to be able to raise the funds to watch them compete.”

The convention, which will be June 18-22 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, features a variety of events, including engineering, robotics, technology, marketing and communications, and much more.

Central Georgia Membership Corporation customer-owners who participate in the Operation Round Up program voluntarily elect to have their electric bills rounded up to the next dollar. The donated amount averages about 50 cents per month for each participating customer-owner. The CGEMC Foundation board of directors then distributes the funds to qualifying charities in the CGEMC community.

The Foundation is accepting applications, which are available online at www.cgemc.com or can be picked up in person at the CGEMC office at 923 S. Mulberry St. in Jackson. Any eligible organizations seeking assistance in CGEMC’s 14-county service territory are encouraged to apply.

Central Georgia EMC is a customer-owned cooperative providing electricity and related services to over 56,000 billed accounts in 14 counties.