Operation Round Up® Awards $21,989 to Local Programs

Bemidji, Minn. -The Beltrami Electric Cooperative Trust Board for Operation Round Up® met recently and awarded grants to twenty one area nonprofit and community organizations totaling $21,989.  

Operation Round Up® is a charitable program unique to electric cooperatives and provides financial assistance to nonprofit and community based organizations in our area.  Applications may be submitted year around, and the next application deadline is September 30, 2018.          

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Seated:  Julia Simons, Solway Elementary School; Joann Gardner, St. Vincent de Paul; Kristine Cannon, Bemidji Community Theater; Annie Butler Ricks, Headwaters Science Center; Michelle Crow, Bemidji Senior Center

Standing:   Nancy Haugen, Bemidji Symphony Orchestra; Sharon Lembke, ORU board member; Michelle Sand, ORU board member; Jessica Westlund, Headwaters School of Music & Arts; Eva Jourdan, City of Kelliher; Jim Haskell, Ralph Gracie American Legion Post #14; Steve Inkel, Boy Scouts of America; Lonnie Wernberg, Deeper Life Bible Camp; Steph Rockensock, Blackduck Backwoods Bash; Michelle Walton, Northwest Indian Community Development Center; David Lindmark, Birchmound Community Center; Jim Dahedl, Blackduck Elementary School, Nokomis Paiz, Red Lake Nation College