MTE Customers Care donates $10K to Honor Flight Volunteers in Williamson County
Customers Care Board members Joan Wherley, front left, and Bill Brown, front right, present a replica check for $10,000 to Honor Flight Volunteer Chairman Paul Fleenor, center. In the back row, from left, are Veterans of Foreign Wars members Bill Lehenbauer, Henry Pellican and Troy Price, Honor Flight Volunteer Co-Chair Connie Turvy and board member Earl Hensel.
Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation’s Customers Care has donated $10,000 of Operation
Round Up funds to Honor Flight Volunteers in Williamson County.
“This donation will help us purchase 105 tickets for a US Airways charter to Washington, D.C., and the veterans can fly to the memorial for free,” Honor Flight Volunteers Chairman of the Board Paul Fleenor said.
The nonprofit organization pays the airfare for World War II veterans to go see the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Operation Round Up began in November 2003 and since that time has distributed more than $2.8 million
into the communities Middle Tennessee Electric serves.
The initiative “rounds up” members’ bills to the next highest dollar, with that extra change set aside for worthy causes. It is the responsibility of the Customers Care Board, which is composed of seven MTEMC members, to evaluate grant requests and send the money back to qualifying organizations.
Incoming contributions are tracked by county so that the Customers Care Board can do its best to ensure money contributed by members in a certain county goes to that county. Any balances will be carried over each month.
For more information about Customers Care and Operation Round Up, log on to www.mtemc.com or call 890-9762.
Posted on August 12, 2008.
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