Five local organizations were recently awarded grants through Operation Round Up Trust.  More than $11,000 was given to help organizations offer programs and services to benefit community residents.    Family and Youth Services Bureau, Valparaiso, received $2,000 to purchase essential baby supplies for The Tot Shop.  The Tot Shop provides incentives for families to engage… Continue reading.

This holiday season you’ll probably see lots of advertising for “smart” home this and “smart” home that. Commercials will highlight gadgets that make your life better because they make your home so dang smart. Rather than make promises about how “smart” these devices are, let’s talk about how they can be more helpful in your… Continue reading.

When you think of October, crisp mornings, the changing color of the leaves, and, if you’re a sports fan, football might naturally come to mind.  But October is notable for another reason. It is National Cooperative Month. During this month, your cooperative, along with others across the country, celebrate who we are and, more importantly,… Continue reading.

Harvest season is just around the corner. Kankakee Valley REMC reminds area farmers of the dangers that power lines pose when you’re moving machinery in and out of the field.  The most common risk of electrocution for farm workers, according to the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, comes from overhead power lines. Tall equipment,… Continue reading.

From September 2019 through January 2020, Kankakee Valley REMC will be conducting a survey of residential co-op member-consumers. This telephone survey is conducted every three years, and helps our power supplier, Wabash Valley Power Alliance, determine how much power will be needed in the near future.  The survey will be conducted by Oppenheim Research, a… Continue reading.

It is becoming more common to see electric vehicles on the roadways. The new advanced technology has people wondering, is this the right car for me?  Kankakee Valley REMC recognized this growing trend and saw an opportunity to be an information resource for our membership. At a recent Electric Vehicle Test Drive Experience event hosted… Continue reading.

October is National Cooperative Month, and you can celebrate by checking out some of the unique opportunities that your local electric co-op offers through its Power Moves® program.  As you may know, we at Wabash Valley Power are a generation and transmission cooperative created by and composed of our member co-ops. We partner with all… Continue reading.

Crews have been inspecting many of our power lines and substations, and their presence has prompted questions from member-consumers. Most have wondered whether this means Kankakee Valley REMC will start offering broadband internet service. The simple answer is “not right now.” The crews are planning for a major project we’ll begin this coming spring. We’ve… Continue reading.

Ball State University senior Zoë Yergler, journalism and telecommunications major, spent the summer at Kankakee Valley REMC as an intern working with Communications/Marketing Director Amanda Steeb. We asked her about her summer with us. What were some of the opportunities you had? I didn’t really expect to do as much as I’ve done. I was… Continue reading.