19/05/2025
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Kimball Elementary is a small West Virginia school located around 90 minutes away from our plant. The school had plans for a year-end field trip to take every student and faculty to Asheboro Zoo in Asheboro, NC. After thinking they had raised the necessary funds to book the trip, some confusion became apparent with regards to donors and the school learned they were going to be woefully short of funds to make the trip happen. They were left scrambling to try and find help. An employee at Kimball Elementary happens to have a son who works at Utility and recalled us donating some money to their school a few years back, so she reached out to us.
When our employees learned of the need, plantwide votes were quickly conducted to see if employees wanted to give up our next company paid meal and donate the collective value to Kimball. 99% of our employees voted a resounding yes and the next day we delivered a check to Kimball Elementary in the amount of $12,168.00. When you have 950 employees giving up a meal, the numbers can add up fast!
Kimball Elementary will now head to Asheboro Zoo and we are incredibly happy to know that 160 students will get to experience a wonderful day of making memories that could last a lifetime.
What can one mom do who works at a school and cares deeply for the students? Well, the answer is when you connect her to 950 employees who also care about children, great things can happen fast! We may be in another state, but people born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains take care of each other. Children had a need. We could feel the need. Simple as that!
Why do we share this now at the risk of looking like we are applauding ourselves?
We share it because bad news always travels fast and shouts with an obnoxiously loud voice. Bad news is everywhere. We are inundated with it and sometimes there seems no escape from it. We figure maybe it’s time to be bold enough to share some good news.
