GEC Community Foundation Awards Grants to Area Schools

The Trustees of the GEC Community Foundation, Inc. met Friday, April 14 and awarded seven grants totaling $3,768. All grants are funded by member donations through the Operation Round-Up Program, in which members voluntarily round up their utility bills each month to fund grants to eligible entities.

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The Trenton Rotary Club donated 93 pair of shoes to the Rotary District 6040 Shoes for Orphan Souls project, with the shoes being picked up during a stop of the shoes caravan in Trenton on April 28. The club also collected $605 to be donated to the Bright Futures Trenton shoes project. Pictured are, from left, front row, local shoe chairman Diane Lowrey, Jackie Soptic, Kim Washburn, District 6040 shoe chairman Larry Lunsford, Dan Wilford and Cathy McKay; back row, Tom Witten, Jim Goedert and Cole Soptic.