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ANGOLA â The Steuben County Community Foundation has received two, $100,000 grants through the Lilly Endowment through the same initiative, the Foundation announced Thursday.
Steuben County Community Foundation has received a Community Leadership Grant of $100,000 as part of the seventh phase of Lilly Endowment Inc.âs Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow initiative. With the grant, the community foundation will establish a strategy of building a collaborative network of people and organizations who are equipped to solve community issues through collective action.
âSCCF is grateful for the opportunity this grant has given our board to evaluate our role in supporting the people and organizations who make things happen in Steuben County,â said Jennifer Danic, president and CEO of Steuben County Community Foundation.
ANGOLA â Steuben County government bade farewell to two longtime servants on Monday following the end of the final Steuben County Board of Commissioners meeting.
Commissioners Jim Crowl and Ron Smith were honored in speeches and with mementos â and light refreshments â as the two leave behind decades of service to Steuben County.
Crowl will not return to office in January after he was primaried by Councilman Ken Shelton in June. Smith decided not to run again due to health reasons.
In addition, Rep. Denny Zent, R-Angola, presented both men the Distinguished Hoosier award from Gov. Eric Holcomb.
âI look around this room today and there are a lot of wonderful people that Iâve enjoyed working with,â Crowl said in a socially distanced gathering in the Dale Hughes Jr. Memorial Auditorium. âI canât thank all of you, but thank you so much for making Steuben County a wonderful place to live and work.â
ANGOLA â Mark Leu no longer thinks of LaGrange County REMC as just an electric membership cooperative that serves a rural community.
âWe no longer consider ourselves an electric cooperative. We are now an electric and communications cooperative,â said Leu, CEO of LaGrange County REMC.
Thatâs the new reality of two electric cooperatives that had humble beginnings of simply working to string wire to rural LaGrange and Steuben counties so those who lived in the country â mainly farmers â had electricity.
Both REMCs are starting to work on providing fiber optics to their members so broadband connectivity becomes a reality out in areas that, much like electricity during the Great Depression, was dark.
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