BASTROP – Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative will award $1,000 grants to 64 fire departments and 26 food pantries serving communities across the cooperative’s 14-county service area.
“The service that these fire departments and food pantries provide Bluebonnet’s members and communities is vitally important and providing these grants is one of the proudest things we do at Bluebonnet,” said Ben Flencher, chairman of Bluebonnet’s board of directors. “The work they do helps people and families at the time when they need it the most.”
The grants will support the firefighters and first re sponders who devote their time, skill and courage to keeping communities safe. The money will help cover costs such as fuel, equipment, repairs and other critical needs. The grants will help food pantries provide holiday meals during Thanksgiving and Christmas that many families would not have otherwise.
