Making a difference

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Posted on Jul 22 2016 in Kankakee Valley REMC
Kankakee Valley REMC’s Amanda Steeb presents an Operation Round Up check to Chief Joshua Noel from the Hebron Police Department.

Kankakee Valley REMC’s Amanda Steeb presents an Operation Round Up check to Chief Joshua Noel from the Hebron Police Department.

Kankakee Valley REMC members are making a difference in the community. This quarter, the Operation Round Up Trust awarded over $7,000 to non-profit organizations in the community.

  • North Judson-San Pierre Middle School/High School bands received a $3,000 grant to purchase band instruments for students to use. With the help of the grant, students who might not have been able to join band, due to the cost of an instrument, can now participate and use a school-purchased instrument.
  • Hebron Police Department was awarded $1,305 to refurbish the department’s three automated external defibrillators (AEDs). This grant will help to replace expired electrode pads and drained batteries. The Hebron Police Department serves the Town of Hebron, assists the Porter County Sheriff’s Department in calls of mutual aid and responds to many Boone Township emergency calls.
  • Executive Director Steven Bernth of Youth Services Bureau Big Brothers/Big Sisters of LaPorte receives an Operation Round Up grant check from KVREMC’s Amanda Steeb.

    Executive Director Steven Bernth of Youth Services Bureau Big Brothers/Big Sisters of LaPorte receives an Operation Round Up grant check from KVREMC’s Amanda Steeb.

    Yellowstone Trail Fest Inc. received a $300 grant to purchase drama outfits to be used during the festival. The Yellowstone Trail Fest was formed in 2008 by a group of town residents wishing to raise awareness of the history in the town of Hamlet. One aspect of the event is the drama presentation which allows six youth from Oregon-Davis School Corporation to portray famous people during a specific active year of the Yellowstone Trail. Yellowstone Trail Fest takes place Aug. 20-21.

  • Starke County Extension Homemakers Association received a grant for $1,000 to purchase books and activity supplies to be given to 110 children in the St. Thomas Head Start program located in Starke County. Volunteers from the organization read to each class four times during the school year and each child gets a copy of the book to take home.
  • Youth Services Bureau Big Brothers/Big Sisters of LaPorte received a $1,500 grant to support the “Kids on the Block” program. This program is a child abuse prevention program offered to second graders in every public school in LaPorte County. The program is designed to teach students what child abuse is, what it isn’t and what to do if it happens.