This year CTEC offered twenty-five $1,000 college scholarships, bringing the combined amount of financial help awarded to area students over the program’s 20-year history to $534,000. In 1997, a bill was passed by the Texas Legislature that allowed nonprofit electric cooperatives to put unclaimed capital credit funds, previously collected by the Comptroller Office for the State General Fund, to use for student scholarships. CTEC would like to congratulate this year’s local recipients ...