Sharing the wealth via Clearwater-Polk Electric Operation Round-Up

Clearwater-Polk Electric Cooperative’s Operation Round-Up donated $8,750 to 17 local area organizations on Wednesday, Dec. 14. According to Operation Round-Up Trustee Glenn Rettmann, this latest round of donations brings the total distributed since Operation Round-Up began to approximately $355,000. All this raised by simply rounding co-op members’ monthly electric bill up to the nearest dollar, an average donation of $6 per year per member. 

On hand to receive checks were (from left, front) Lloyd Engen, Clearbrook-Gonvick Sr. Center; Jenny Bakke, Clearbrook-Gonvick After-Prom; Corrie Uhlir, Bagley Early Childhood Initiative; Lorraine Brustad, Bagley Sr. Center; Gladys Luecken, Project Linus; Jane Merschman, Clearwater Christmas Project; (back row) Patti Schrader, Civil Air Patrol; Jay Jones, Clear Waters Life Center after school program; David Lindmark, Birchmound Community Center north of Leonard; Becky Colebank, Clearwater County Food Shelf; Tamara Edevold, Clearwater County Historical Society and Northern Exposure to Lifelong Learning; Lori Buell, SWCD Envirothon; JaNelle Melbo, Bagley Elementary third grade trip to live play performance. Other donations went to (not pictured) Bagley After-Prom, Clearbrook-Gonvick School, Northwoods Caregivers.