The City of Farmer City, in partnership with the Illinois Municipal Utilities Association (IMUA), is again offering a scholarship competition program for eligible high school seniors. Each eligible applicant is asked to submit an application and an essay of 500 words or less addressing their choice of one of three utility-related questions (see website).
Applicants must be high school seniors whose parents or legal guardians are residential customers of the City of Farmer City Municipal Utility.
According to Wally Miller, superintendent for the City of Farmer City, the program has a dual purpose: 1) to promote and recognize scholastic achievement; and 2) to create greater awareness among young adults of the many issues facing consumers and public power municipalities today.
“Today’s energy providers, including municipally-owned and operated utilities, face a myriad of economic, environmental and other challenges which warrant creative and innovative solutions,” Miller said, “Crating a great awareness of these issues among tomorrow’s leaders can be the first step in helping to determine effective, long-term solutions, both now and into the future,” he added.
“Since its inception in 2000, IMUA’s scholarship program has proven to be a very popular and successful program from IMUA, its members and the communities it serves,” said Kevin M. Gaden, President and CEO of the IMUA. “Public power communities offer their communities a number of cost, service and other advantages compared to those served by other energy providers. IMUA’s scholarship program is another example of how municipally-owned and operated utility systems can help return value to their communities while at the same time, provide a measure of financial assistance and support to those students who wish to pursue a college education”
The deadline for submitting applications and essays is Friday, March 10, 2017. A committee of municipal utility officials will select a total of four (4) finalists, each of whom will receive a certificate and $500 scholarship award. Winners will be announced sometime in April.
Organized in 1948, IMUA is a statewide trade association which represents the unified interests of, and provides services to, 52 municipalities which operate their own electric, natural gas, telecommunications, water and wastewater treatment systems. Applicants may contact DeeDee Bunch at IMUA for more information at (217) 789-4632 or visit their website: http://www.imea.org/IMUA_Scholarship.aspx.
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