A $25,000 contribution from the American Electric Power Foundation will help ensure that clients of Sunshine House continue to receive a hot nutritious meal Monday through Friday, 52 weeks a year with frozen meals provided for holidays.
Julio Reyes, AEP Texas vice president of External Affairs, presented an enlarged version of the check to the Sunshine House Executive Director Judy Ford during a recognition event held Tuesday at the facility. The contribution will be used to help provide 38,847 meals to the senior population in Alpine.
Reyes noted that American Electric Power, parent company of AEP Texas, created the AEP Foundation in 2005 to continue the tradition of corporate philanthropy of AEP and its regional utilities and to support and play an active, positive role in the communities where AEP employees live and work.
“The Sunshine House clearly meets those criteria,” Reyes said. “Sunshine House provides meals to about 175 senior citizens each week, either in the facility’s dining room or by home delivery. Seniors receive a hot lunch every weekday and one sack lunch for a weekend meal. These daily interactions provide a sense of community for these seniors, as well as a wellness check on the homebound.”
Ford emphasized that the AEP Foundation contribution will allow Sunshine House to continue its level of service to area citizens. “This contribution is crucial to maintaining our current operations and meeting anticipated future needs,” she said.
AEP Texas is part of the American Electric Power (AEP) system. AEP maintains the nation’s largest electricity transmission system and more than 219,000 miles of distribution lines to efficiently deliver safe, reliable power to nearly 5.4 million regulated customers in 11 states.
AEP Texas serves nearly one million electric meters in the deregulated Texas marketplace. As an energy delivery (wires) company, AEP Texas delivers electricity safely and reliably to homes, businesses and industry across its nearly 100,000 square mile service territory in south and west Texas. AEP Texas also builds new power lines, restores service following outages and records electric usage using advanced meters for retail electric providers (REPs) throughout its service territory. The company also connects or disconnects service upon the orders of the REPs.
Larry Jones
AEP Texas Corporate Communications
lajones@aep.com
(512) 203-4916