Gas News Release

July 24, 2001

Armstrong’s Warm Welcomes Project Wins Dominion Peoples Community Enrichment Award

PITTSBURGH – The Family Resource Network of Armstrong County recently received a Community Enrichment Award from Dominion Peoples for its Warm Welcomes Project. Under the Warm Welcomes Project, the family of every infant born at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital is provided with a laundry basket filled with baby items, educational pamphlets, a smoke detector and an informational video entitled: “I Am Your Child.”

In 1999, a committee of the Family Resource Network identified a gap in services for children from birth to 3 years of age in the Armstrong County area. The Warm Welcomes Project was developed to fill this need. The $8,000 grant that accompanies the Community Enrichment Award will help the program focus on the importance of the first three years of life and the impact of an early start on healthy development through childhood.

The Community Enrichment Award is awarded to nonprofit and community-based organizations outside of Allegheny County. It was initiated in 1997 to recognize and honor collaborative projects that have made a major impact in the area of community development and revitalization. Since its inception, it has honored fourteen nonprofit organizations and provided up to $30,000 for distribution within a fourteen county area.

The grant was made through the Dominion Foundation, which is dedicated to the economic, physical and social health of the communities served by Dominion companies.

Dominion Peoples is a subsidiary of Dominion, one of the nation’s largest producers of energy. Dominion, headquartered in Richmond, Va., serves 3.8 million retail natural gas and electric customers. Dominion Peoples provides natural gas service to more than 351,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in 16 counties in southwestern Pennsylvania. For more information about Dominion, visit the company’s Web site at www.dom.com.