Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Pike County Senior Citizens' Center Wins Grant
- {Kentucky}...Toyota will aid the Pike County Senior Citizens Program in regard to its meal services, but the support has nothing to do with a car. Pike County Community Services Director and senior citizens program supervisor Carol Napier submitted a grant application to Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK) in May requesting funds to help with the direct costs of the program’s meal services. “For fiscal year 2012 we have a projected operating budget of $268,279 for eight centers,” Napier wrote in the grant application. “We plan to serve 88,000 meals to 1,335 eligible senior citizens.” According to the application, direct operating cost include, but are not limited to, raw food and paper products such as meal trays, utensils and napkins. Napier wrote in the application that although utilities and wages are part of the meal services’ costs, the donation will not be used to cover these costs. Nila Wells, TMMK Contributions Program Administrator, notified Napier on June 23 the contributions committee had approved the application and was donating $5,000 to the senior citizens program for meal services. “I am pleased with this large Kentucky manufacturing corporation,” Pike County Judge-Executive Wayne T. Rutherford said. “I drive a hybrid Toyota built in Georgetown, Ky. This is a very community-minded corporation.”
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