Columbia Gas employees present grant to Lexington Hearing & Speech Center
Members of Columbia Gas of Kentucky's Inclusion & Diversity Council stepped out to visit the Lexington Hearing and Speech Center just a day before the well-respected organization moved into its new location in the former Julia R. Ewan Elementary School building on Henry Clay Boulevard. With them, the group brought a grant from the NiSource Charitable Foundation for $20,000 to assist with the purchase and remodeling of LHSC's new home.
A tour of the LHSC's cramped former facility by Executive Director Marcey Ansley clearly showed how the organization and its clients will benefit from a larger space. According to Ansley, the new facility will enable LHSC to expand the educational and audiology services they provide to clients from 66 Kentucky counties.
Following the tour, the Columbia Gas employees, who represent each Columbia Gas office throughout the company's service territory in Kentucky and Ironton, Ohio, received a lesson in how to more effectively communicate with customers who have hearing disabilities from one of LHSC's audiologists.