East River coordinates donation to Lake County 4-H

Employees from East River and Sioux Valley Energy present the check to Lake County 4-H in front of the barn. Back row, L to R: Jeff May, Nick Reiff, Erica Fitzhugh, Lori George, Anne Hall and Greg Benda. Front row, L to R: Paul Letsche, Carrie Schiernbeck, and Jen Hayford. /East River Electric Power Cooperative

The Lake County 4-H program recently received donations to replace overhead doors on the livestock barns at the Lake County 4-H grounds.

East River Electric Power Cooperative and its Employees Committee, along with the Sioux Valley Energy Operation Round Up program, CoBank’s Sharing Success program and Basin Electric Power Cooperative’s Charitable Giving program together recently donated 14-thousand-500 dollars to the Lake County 4-H program. East River donated five-thousand dollars of the total and coordinated another nine-thousand-500-dollars in matching donations from Sioux Valley, CoBank and Basin Electric.

More than 200 youth are currently enrolled in the Lake County 4-H Program. The local office operates outreach programs with all students in the region, not just program participants, in the towns of Oldham, Ramona, Rutland, Chester and Madison.