{"id":37066,"date":"2019-05-10T08:53:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.preco.coop\/?p=37066"},"modified":"2019-05-10T08:53:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:53:34","slug":"preco-awards-98000-in-college-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.preco.coop\/preco-awards-98000-in-college-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"PRECO Awards $98,000 in College Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wauchula, Fla. \u2014 Operation Round Up, the charitable arm of Peace River Electric Cooperative, awarded $98,000 in college scholarships to 16 local students. Operation Round Up has granted more than $800,000 in scholarships to 170 individuals since it was first formed in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amount of student loan debt is at a staggering level right now,\u201d says Ellen Hamel, Operation Round Up board chairperson. \u201cOur goal is to reduce the amount of funds which students may have to borrow to attend college. This scholarship may be just what some students need to make a college degree possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Funding for Operation Round Up comes from the donations of PRECO\u2019s member-consumers. Each participating member\u2019s electric bill is \u201crounded up\u201d to the next dollar to provide charitable funds in the areas of food, shelter, clothing, medical, the environment and college scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about PRECO and Operation Round Up, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preco.coop\">www.preco.coop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Hardee High School, Wauchula:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tara Hines &#8211; $4,000<\/li>\n<li>Ashlee Patterson &#8211; $4,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Lakewood Ranch High School:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lance Duch &#8211; $4,000<\/li>\n<li>Calissa Foege &#8211; $8,000<\/li>\n<li>Carli Kasten &#8211; $4,000<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Marschner &#8211; $4,000<\/li>\n<li>Sophia Sahr &#8211; $8,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Out-Of-Door Academy, Sarasota:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jack Malcolm &#8211; $8,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Southeast High School, Bradenton:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeremy Durmaz &#8211; $8,000<\/li>\n<li>Jordan Durmaz &#8211; $8,000<\/li>\n<li>Zachary Morris &#8211; $8,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Post High School Students:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lauryn Dees \u2013 Manatee Co. &#8211; $8,000 \u2013 attends Marshall University<\/li>\n<li>Hunter Gibson \u2013 Hardee Co.\u00a0 &#8211; $4,000 \u2013 attends South Florida State College<\/li>\n<li>Gabriella Gonzalez \u2013 Manatee Co. &#8211; $6,000 \u2013 attends Southeastern University<\/li>\n<li>Garrett Griffin \u2013 Manatee Co. &#8211; $4,000 \u2013 attends State College of Florida<\/li>\n<li>Cheoting Maugens \u2013 Manatee Co. &#8211; $8,000 \u2013 attends University of Florida<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wauchula, Fla. \u2014 Operation Round Up, the charitable arm of Peace River Electric Cooperative, awarded $98,000 in college scholarships to 16 local students. Operation Round Up has granted more than $800,000 in scholarships to 170 individuals since it was first formed in 2005. \u201cThe amount of student loan debt is at a staggering level right [&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-10 16:43:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.preco.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.preco.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.preco.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.preco.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.preco.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.preco.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.preco.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.preco.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.preco.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}