Golden Spread Electric Cooperative Gives Back to Volunteer Fire Departments
BRONTE, TEXAS — The Community Involvement Committee (CIC) of Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, Inc. and Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. are giving back to local communities with a cumulative donation of $7,200 to sixteen volunteer fire departments (VFD), including the Bronte Volunteer Fire Department.
A check presentation took place on Monday, April 25, 2022, at the Bronte Volunteer Fire Department firehouse. Emory Allen, Concho Valley EC Lineman presented the donation to Cody Pritchard, VFD volunteer, and Colby Lee, Bronte VFD fire chief.
Concho Valley EC is a Member of Golden Spread, a generation and transmission organization with a total of sixteen Member cooperatives. Golden Spread purchases and supplies power to Concho Valley EC for its Member-Consumers and follows one of the Seven Cooperative Principles, Concern for Community.
“Golden Spread Electric Cooperative takes great pride in supporting our local volunteer fire departments,” said Jennifer Bobbitt, chairperson of the CIC. “We support a VFD in each of our sixteen Member service territories each year as an appreciation of the exemplary efforts of those men and women who keep our communities safe. I’m happy to be a part of a cooperative that prioritizes community investment in places doing such good work.”
The Golden Spread Board of Directors entrusts to the CIC an annual budget, which is used to benefit the territories served by its sixteen Members. Activities and organizations are selected by the CIC and supported by Golden Spread employees. Approximately $15,000 in employee donations annually support volunteer fire departments and senior nutrition programs in its Members’ service territories.
The sixteen volunteer fire departments receiving donations in early 2022 are: Borden County, Bronte, Cottonwood, Floydada, Fort McKavett, Glen Cove, Hereford, Hooker, Muleshoe, Olton, Perryton, Shamrock, Stamford, Sunray, Tulia, and West Carlisle.
For more information about Golden Spread Electric Cooperative and its community efforts, visit www.gsec.coop/Member/Community.
Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, Inc., is a consumer-owned public utility organized in 1984 to provide electric service for rural distribution cooperative Members located in the Panhandle, South Plains and Edwards Plateau regions of Texas, the Panhandle of Oklahoma, Southwest Kansas and Southeast Colorado. Golden Spread is headquartered in Amarillo and delivers competitive energy solutions to its 16 Member Cooperatives through wind and solar resources and state-of-the-art power plants in Texas near Abernathy and Denver City.
