Circle of Page couldn't operate without such donations.
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Last Wednesday the Navajo Generating Station donated several checks, totaling around $11,000, to the Circle of Page, which maintains and operates a soup kitchen, food bank and other emergency services. In addition to the money NGS employees also donated 787 cans of canned goods.
This is the most money that NGS has donated to the Circle of Page in the many years they’ve been doing the program, said George Hardeen, NGS Communication Consultant.
Three thousand of the $11,000 will go toward the Page Unified School District’s backpack program, which sends food home with students whose families don’t provide them with sufficient meals or nutrition over the weekend, or longer periods, such as holidays.
The different NGS departments – Maintenance, Operations, Railroad and Administration -- competed against each other to see which could raise the most money. The railroad department topped them all collecting $5,000, an honor they’ve held for several years now.
“Salt River Project has a tradition of giving back to the community,” said Regina Haycock, one of NGS’s Foodbank volunteers. “This is one of the corporate programs that we get heavily involved in, giving back to the community food bank. The NGS has been supporting the local food bank since it first came into existence.
“We do this every single year,” said Haycock. “It’s been going on for the 18 years I’ve been part of SRP.”
Most of the money will go toward the food bank and the backpack program, said Connie Tkalcevic, treasurer for the Circle of Page.
“We’re all about feeding people, whether it’s the kids at school or people in the community, the soup kitchen, that’s a lot of what the Circle of Page does,” Tkalcevic said. “Emergency Services helps with whatever emergencies people might have as well. We pretty much run on donations. What we do wouldn’t be possible without them.
The NGS and Faith Bible Church are the Circle of Page’s two largest funders. St. David’s Church contributes the space for the food bank, soup kitchen, office supplies. They also pay the utilities and provide office supplies for facility.
With NGS being one of Circle of Page’s largest funders, they can’t help but consider the future when NGS closes and that crucial funding source dries up.
