Golden Spread Electric Cooperative Gives Back to Volunteer Fire Departments
CHRISTOVAL, TEXAS — The Community Involvement Committee (CIC) of Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, Inc. and Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. (CVEC) are giving back to local communities with a cumulative donation of $4,800 to sixteen volunteer fire departments (VFD), including the Christoval Volunteer Fire Department.
A check presentation took place Friday, April 16, 2021 at the Christoval Volunteer Fire Department firehouse. Krysha Burleson and Newt Kitchens, CVEC employees, presented the donation to Phillip Montalvo, VFD fire chief, and Jimmy Barton, VFD Board President.
“We enjoy supporting the volunteer fire departments,” said Jennifer Bobbitt, vice chairperson of the CIC committee. “It typifies one of Golden Spread’s operating principles, caring and giving. Our goal is to support a VFD in each of our Member territories each year. I am thankful to be a part of an organization that prioritizes community investment.”
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 2021 are: Abernathy, Christoval, Clarendon, Dawn, Earth, Hamby, Miami Roberts, Morton, Petersburg, Rotan, Rowena, Sheffield, Texline, Turpin, Wayside Emergency Team, and Wilson.
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.