KVREMC Operation Roundup Grants $5000 to Starke County Organizations

 
 

The Kankakee Valley REMC Operation Roundup Trust grant program has awarded $7,050 to area nonprofit organizations, showing their support for such organizations as they have for the past 14 years.

Amanda Steeb, communications director for KVREMC, said they’ve been able to give more than $850,000 since their start in 2000 because of their members and generous contributions by those who round up their electric bills each month.

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Drive Sober This Super Bowl Sunday

 
 
Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday, pitting the Seattle Seahawks against the Denver Broncos at 5:30 p.m. CT, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving are urging football fans not to drive drunk and to assign a designated driver.

Super Bowl Sunday continually ranks as one of the most dangerous times of the year for drunk driving deaths. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 43 percent of all traffic fatalities on Super Bowl Sunday and the early hours of the following morning in 2012 were caused by drunk driving, compared to an average of 31 percent for the year as a whole.

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