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Valero will donate $45,000 to local groups over next three years

From left, Shane Uetz, Kim Wilson and Dennis Sonberg representing the Valero Energy Foundation, present a check of $25,000 that will go toward the cost of building Charles City High School's new baseball and softball complex. Receiving the check on behalf of the school district is Charles City student and softball player Heather Grimm and Charles City Activities Director Todd Forsyth. Press photo by John Burbridge
From left, Shane Uetz, Kim Wilson and Dennis Sonberg representing the Valero Energy Foundation, present a check of $25,000 that will go toward the cost of building Charles City High School’s new baseball and softball complex. Receiving the check on behalf of the school district is Charles City student and softball player Heather Grimm and Charles City Activities Director Todd Forsyth. Press photo by John Burbridge
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Three local projects including the Charles City school district’s new sports complex will benefit from Valero Energy Foundation grants totaling $45,000 over the next three years, presented by Valero Renewables of Charles City.

The foundation will donate $10,000 this year and next year to the school district to go toward the cost of building a new baseball and softball complex on land the district owns north of the city, and will donate $5,000 in 2020 for a total gift of $25,000.

The sports complex gift, which had been announced earlier, was presented during the halftime of the varsity football game Friday night as part of the homecoming festivities.

The Valero Energy Foundation will give $10,000 — $5,000 this year and $5,000 next year — to the Floyd County Fair to assist in costs of completing the kitchen at the Youth Enrichment Center at the fairgrounds.

And the foundation will also give $5,000 this year and $5,000 next year — $10,000 total — to Comprehensive Systems, to help with the cost of modernizing an existing hydraulic elevator.

Valero Energy Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Valero Energy Corp., and provides funding to improve the quality of life in the communities where the company has major operations, according to information from the foundation.

Annually, Valero, its employees and the foundation collectively generate more than $54 million in charitable support for charities through direct donations or fundraising. Valero employees log more than 153,000 volunteer hours each year for hundreds of projects in these same communities.

For a fifth consecutive time, Valero was named to the Civic 50 list by Points of Light as one of America’s most community-minded companies – the top energy company on the list.

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