Thornell wins Ohio s Electric Co-op scholarship Tuesday, April 27, 2021 4:09 PM
ANTWERP Eric Thornell (Antwerp) is one of three winners of a $1,400
scholarships in the Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives scholarship
competition held April 13. The three winners took top honors in their
individual co-op’s scholarship competition before moving to the
statewide level.
Eric, the son of Garrett and Amy Thornell, was
sponsored by Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative, Inc. He is a senior
at Antwerp Local High School.
Twenty-four students representing 24 electric cooperatives in Ohio competed for $41,800 in scholarship awards.
The
state’s electric cooperatives, all Touchstone Energy® Cooperatives,
provide electricity to more than 380,000 homes and businesses in 77 of
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North Side High School junior Sofi Vasquez participates in a group with a simple goal – give hope to the community.
“We want to inspire anyone who can give back, to do it,” Vasquez said in an email last month. “It is really an eye opener and is a humbling experience.”
Project Empower formed last August when a few friends talked about wanting to help the community, and interest grew among students around the city, Vasquez said.
“When I first joined the group, I was truly astonished by the amount of love that I had received,” she said. “I was welcomed with open arms, and we automatically felt like a family.”