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Kentucky Power is postponing Power Up the Pantry in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The community event scheduled for April 3 will take place later this year. A new date has not been scheduled.

Kentucky Power is partnering with WYMT and local businesses to Power Up Pantry and replenish depleted area food pantries for the second year. The inaugural event collected a one-day near record 7.5 tons of food and more than $17,000 in monetary donations, enough for about 152,000 meals.The second daylong event is planned for April 3.

The Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky is the latest community organization to receive a grant from the American Electric Power (AEP) Foundation. Kentucky Power President Brett Mattison and others have presented The Challenger Center with $62,500.

Since 2010, Kentucky Power’s aggressive tree trimming efforts have reduced outages inside the right of way by 70 percent. But trees outside of the right of way remain an issue. Trees outside the right of way cause about 51 percent of customer outages. Only 2 percent of outages are caused by trees within the right of way.

Kentucky Power on Thursday was named one of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky for 2020. Kentucky Power, based in Ashland, is among 31 businesses in the large category to receive the honor in the 16th annual list.