Sunday, February 22, 2009
H.E.L.P. Receives Funding.
Pikeville, Ky.—On Thursday, Feb. 19, Pike County Judge/Executive Wayne T. Rutherford and state Representative W. Keith Hall presented Helping Ease Life’s Poverty (H.E.L.P.) Director Monk Sanders with checks totaling $30,000.
The funding, which was provided through coal severance taxes, will go to pay for a walk-in freezer to aid H.E.L.P. in distributing more food to those in need. Pike County Magistrate Hilman Dotson and the rest of the Pike County Fiscal Court allocated $5,000 in coal severance to the initiative, while Rep. Hall allocated the remaining $25,000.
Sanders tried for several months to get funding to buy a freezer, because he said he had to turn away donations of frozen food, since he had no place to store it. Upon receiving notification that the organization would receive funding for the project, Monk had the freezer installed in September. The $30,000 will reimburse the organization the money it has already paid towards the freezer’s installation, and will pay off the remainder of the debt.
Since the freezer’s installation, Sanders said he has not had the opportunity to receive many donations of frozen food, because the region has experienced many natural disasters recently.
The funding, which was provided through coal severance taxes, will go to pay for a walk-in freezer to aid H.E.L.P. in distributing more food to those in need. Pike County Magistrate Hilman Dotson and the rest of the Pike County Fiscal Court allocated $5,000 in coal severance to the initiative, while Rep. Hall allocated the remaining $25,000.
Sanders tried for several months to get funding to buy a freezer, because he said he had to turn away donations of frozen food, since he had no place to store it. Upon receiving notification that the organization would receive funding for the project, Monk had the freezer installed in September. The $30,000 will reimburse the organization the money it has already paid towards the freezer’s installation, and will pay off the remainder of the debt.
Since the freezer’s installation, Sanders said he has not had the opportunity to receive many donations of frozen food, because the region has experienced many natural disasters recently.
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