In 1993 the

Coweta-Fayette EMC Board of Directors initiated Operation Round-Up, a

program that allows people to touch people in the community.

Participating

EMC members contribute just a little change each month. A bill of $48.45,

for instance, will be rounded up to $49. The average contribution per

household is $6 a year.

Of its 56,000

members, 35,000 are participating in the plan and since its inception

Operation Round-Up has raised about $1.26 million. Of that, $919,000 has

been put back into the communities of the EMC's seven-county service area.

Expenses total 4.1 percent a year, with 2 percent going toward a state-mandated

yearly audit.

Among those

benefiting in Fayette County through the years are the Peachtree City

Fire Department, Fayette County Fire and Emergency, The Early Years, Special

People of Fayette County, Fayette Senior Services, Fayette Alzheimer's

Care Center, Fayette Council on Domestic Violence, Fayette Youth Protection

Homes, Fayette Family YMCA, Fayette Samaritans, Tyrone Recreation Department,

Joseph Sams School, McIntosh Theatre Guild, Whitewater Middle School,

the Brooks, Tyrone and Fayette County libraries and the Peachtree City

parks and community theater.

Nine directors

serve on the Coweta-Fayette Trust Board, all serving voluntarily. They

investigate all applications before an award is made.

Among those

on the board from Fayette County are Earnest A. Hardy, Robert K. Neff,

Lisa Price and Ruby Jo Sanders.

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