Worldwide Paper Vicksburg Mill donates $67,500 to native organizations – The Vicksburg Submit

Worldwide Paper just lately made a donation of $67,500 to fifteen completely different native charities and organizations.

The corporate held a reception and dinner for members of the teams receiving donations Tuesday on the Vicksburg Warren County Chamber of Commerce. Representatives from 13 charities in Vicksburg, one from Yazoo County and one from Jackson had been in attendance.

Oren Ruth, Jr., Mill Supervisor for Worldwide Paper’s Vicksburg operation, introduced the donations to the representatives on the occasion.

“Tonight is an instance of how we need to companion with you,” Ruth stated to attendees. “Not simply with our funds, but in addition to develop and proceed to create these partnerships, to the place we serve and work locally with you all to assist develop the organizations and the individuals that you simply signify.”

Attendees had been known as one after the other as Ruth spoke about every group and why Worldwide Paper determined to contribute to their trigger.

Main Janna Torgerson was in attendance to obtain a donation to the Salvation Military of Vicksburg.

“Nationwide, the Salvation Military is thought for serving to communities, and our native division is busy day-after-day feeding our neighbors and caring for their wants,” Ruth stated. “That’s why we’re proud to acknowledge our native Salvation Military of Vicksburg with a donation of $10,250. This grant will assist this crew do what it does greatest — assist fight starvation right here within the River Metropolis.”

Different organizations and the donations they obtained are as follows:

• The United Method of West Central Mississippi: $5,000
• Vicksburg Household Improvement Service: $3,000
• Redwood Elementary: $5,000
• The Junior Auxiliary of Vicksburg: $2,000
• Form Up Mississippi: $2,000
• The 456 Robotics Staff: $5,000
• Warren Yazoo Behavioral Well being: $2,000
• Cover Youngsters’s Options: $5,000
• Lifting Lives Ministries: $5,000
• Grace Christian Counseling Heart: $9,250
• Central Mississippi Prevention Companies: $2,000
• The Mississippi Youngsters’s Museum: $3,000
• The Mississippi Meals Community: $6,000
• River Metropolis Rescue Mission: $3,000

In 2023, Worldwide Paper will have a good time its one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary as a company. That very same yr, the Vicksburg mill run by the corporate will have a good time its 56th yr of operation.

“My complete aim in life is simply to proceed so as to add worth and elevate others. So once I’m surrounded by organizations akin to you all, it actually makes my coronary heart really feel good,” Ruth stated to the viewers. “It makes my coronary heart complete, it makes me and my crew really feel like we’re doing the fitting factor.”