LG&E and KU employees complete nearly 800 volunteer hours during Day of Caring

Workers assisted non-profit agencies across Kentucky

(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) - Today, more than 300 employees of Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company volunteered with 25 local non-profit organizations to help serve communities across the company's service area in an enterprise-wide Day of Caring. The work includes painting, building, landscaping, cleaning and packing meals.

"Our employees have shown time and again how deeply they care about the communities we serve," said Mary Kate Gray, manager of Corporate Responsibility and Community Affairs. "Day of Caring provides us not only the opportunity to help these organizations achieve their missions, but to also see firsthand the important work they're doing and the impact they have in our communities each and every day."

Day of Caring is part of LG&E and KU's annual employee-giving campaign called Power of One, which brings together monetary giving and volunteerism in the communities where employees live and work. For the last six years, the company's Power of One Campaign has raised nearly $2 million through employee donations and additional support from the LG&E and KU Foundation.

While employee giving and volunteerism have been part of the company's culture for decades, the Power of One campaign began in 2005 and has raised over $35 million. In total, LG&E and KU employees report volunteering over 15,000 hours of service in their communities each year.

For today's Day of Caring, LG&E and KU employees volunteered at the following locations:

Bedford
Trimble County Public Library

Elizabethtown
Helping Hands of Hope
Goodwill Opportunity Center

Lexington
UK Arboretum
The Nest
Lexington Rescue Mission
God's Pantry Food Bank

Louisville
Earth and Spirit Center
St. Vincent De Paul
SOS Health and Hope
Southwest Community Ministries
Maryhurst
Dreams with Wings
The Prisoner's Hope
Goodwill Opportunity Center
Goodwill store takeover - 909 E. Broadway
Goodwill store takeover - 4425 Shelbyville Rd.
Goodwill store takeover - 100 Huntington Ridge Dr.
Neighborhood House
Lifeline Chirstian Mission
Metro United Way
The Healing Place
I Would Rather Be Reading

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Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company, part of the PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) family of companies, are regulated utilities that serve more than 1.3 million customers and have consistently ranked among the best companies for customer service in the United States. LG&E serves 335,000 natural gas and 436,000 electric customers in Louisville and 16 surrounding counties. KU serves 545,000 customers in 77 Kentucky counties and 28,000 in five counties in Virginia. More information is available at https://www.lge-ku.com and https://www.pplweb.com.