South Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation recently held a golf scramble to benefit the Rogers Scholars Program.

The event raised $18,000 for the Rogers Scholars Program, which started in 1998, and provides high school students from 42 counties in southern and eastern Kentucky with an intensive one-week summer session to help spark their entrepreneurial spirit, leadership and commitment to rural Kentucky, and in several cases leads to full scholarships to Kentucky colleges.

South Kentucky RECC President/CEO Allen Anderson said, to date, the golf scramble has earned about $163,000 for the Rogers Scholars Program. He adds that it is always a positive thing when something is done to help the young people of the area.

“We are so pleased to coordinate this effort to help provide scholarships that will allow students from this area attend the program. The Rogers Scholars Program was chosen as the beneficiary of the annual golf scramble, because it is such a good fit with what we try to do at South Kentucky RECC,” Anderson said. “Our mission includes a strong commitment to our communities, and the Rogers Scholars Program is attempting to give back to the community through the students who participate.”

Anderson added that the Rogers Scholars Program has become one of the greatest opportunities for students in our area to receive full or partial scholarships to colleges in both Kentucky and Tennessee.

Anderson said South Kentucky RECC appreciates partnering with the following sponsors for this year’s scramble: Altec, Anthem Insurance, Bank of McCreary County, BB&T; Insurance Services, Parts City of Whitley City, Bluegrass Cellular, Cumberland Security Bank, Cumberland Valley Electric, D.W. Wilburn, Davis H. Elliot Construction, Delta Dental, Kentucky’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives, First National Bank of Russell Springs, John Carman and Associates, L & L Bushhogging, Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, McCreary County Water District, Modern Distributors, Monticello Banking, Phillips Tree Experts, Southern Petroleum, Tate-Hill-Jacobs Architects, Terex Utilities South, Van Meter Insurance, Tru-Check Meter Services and W.A. Kendall and Co.

This event and this level of support for the Rogers Scholars Program would not be possible without the assistance of these partners listed, and South Kentucky RECC appreciates all their help.