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Each year, Garden Valley Technologies considers sponsoring up to two youth delegates to attend the NTCA Foundation for Rural Services (FRS) Youth Tour in Washington, D.C. High school juniors, under the age of 18, and residing within GVT’s exchanges, are encouraged to write an essay-style letter of application explaining why they’re interested in attending and why they should be chosen to represent Garden Valley Technologies at the youth tour. Watch for additional information in our December “Voice of the Valley” newsletter.

The Minnesota Telecom Alliance, of which Garden Valley Technologies is a member, has established a Foundation and awards seven scholarships to be awarded to 2022 Minnesota graduating high school seniors. Each scholarship with be a one-time amount of $2,000. For additional information, please visit www.MNTA.org

Foundation for Rural Services (FRS), along with the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) and its members, strongly promotes the continuing education of rural youth. As your local telecommunications service provider, we are happy to offer this national scholarship program to the students in school districts located within GVT’s service area. For additional information, please visit the FRS website at www.frs.org.

GVT offers free public Wi-Fi at 11 area locations in the cities of Bagley, Clearbrook, Erskine, Fertile, Fosston, Goodridge, Grygla, Mentor, Oklee, Red Lake Falls, and Winger to any member who needs them.

GVT believes in helping the communities we serve, and providing free public Wi-Fi is just one more way to keep friends and neighbors connected. A Garden Valley Technologies banner will be displayed at each location where free Wi-Fi is available. When logging in, the user will see a splash page promoting GVT, along with terms and conditions of use.

While attending a public event at one of these locations, enjoy GVT’s free public Wi-Fi service!

Garden Valley Education Foundation (GVEF) promotes a technology grant program by offering funds to school districts located within our service area. These grants are to be used to aid in the purchase of technology-related services or products.

Donations, given in the form of cash or merchandise, are one of our ways of giving back to area communities. The cooperative’s donation policy allows for an annual amount, based on the number of access lines in an exchange, that’s designated to be used on a first-come, first-served basis to non-political, non-religious organizations located within GVT’s service area. GVT also helps sponsor many community events put on by various organizations throughout our service area. Some of these events include holiday parties, health fairs, benefits, youth associations, and local fairs and parades.