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Colbert Employees Raise Money for Local Schools

July 2, 2004

CHEROKEE, Ala. – Colbert Fossil Plant employees raised more than $27,000 for Cherokee High, Middle and Elementary schools during its second annual Partners in Education Golf Tournament held at the Cypress Lakes Golf and Country Club in Muscle Shoals.

Participants included 44 business partners who donated items for a tournament raffle and amounts ranging from $50 to $2,000.

“Thanks to all of the volunteers and participants who helped make our second tournament such a success,” said Joel Love, Partners in Education coordinator for Colbert Fossil Plant. “We are absolutely amazed at the response from our business partners and local community, who helped us raise a total of $41,000 in the first two years of our event.”

Local participants included Quad Cities Electric Motor, Listerhill Total Maintenance, Lewis Electric, Parkes Mechanical, Pettus Mechanical, Dick's Sporting Goods, Sheffield Utility and Piggly Wiggly in Iuka, Miss. National and international contributors included General Electric, Westinghouse, Siemens, STAPLES, Tool Smith, LOCTITE and Master Lock.

TVA’s Partners in Education program assists schools in the Tennessee Valley in providing a quality education to ensure that the future workforce has the knowledge and skills necessary to meet challenges of the future. The program involves more than 80 schools in the Tennessee Valley region.

TVA is the nation’s largest public power provider and is completely selffinanced. TVA provides power to large industries and 158 power distributors that serve approximately 8.5 million consumers in seven southeastern states.

Media Contact:

Michelle Chang Sherrard, Knoxville, (202) 898-2945
TVA News Bureau, Knoxville, (865) 632-6000

TVA Newsroom

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