FRS College Scholarship Program

The FRS College Scholarship program provides $2,000 and the sponsoring NTCA member company provides $500 for a total of $2,500. In additional to the FRS general scholarships, FRS has the following named scholarships*

*Submitting one application is sufficient for eligibility of all available scholarships. Scholarships are completed online and must be submitted no later than February 16, 2024.  For applications and guidelines, see your high school guidance counselor or visit https://www.frs.org/programs/youth-programs/scholarships.

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WCTA Scholarship Program

High school seniors whose parents are cooperative members are encouraged to apply for one of eight scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each. The application deadline is March 29, 2024. Our cooperative status allows us to fund our scholarship program in part through unclaimed capital credits.  Click here for scholarship application

2nd Year or Beyond Scholarship

Current college students are urged to apply for a $1,000 scholarship through the 2nd Year or Beyond Scholarship. Students who graduated from high school and are from any one of the five districts of WCTA currently attending 2nd year or beyond higher education are eligible. Past scholarship winners are also eligible. The application deadline is May 31, 2024.  Click here for scholarship application

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Solar Outages May Affect TV

If your TV picture briefly turns snowy or blurry on September 22, the date of the fall equinox, it’s probably from a sun outage. This is a natural phenomenon occurring every spring and fall when the receiving antenna on Earth, the satellite, and the sun are in direct alignment.

Nothing can be done from a technical standpoint to prevent the effects on TV reception. Fortunately, however, the sig-nal degradation caused by a sun outage lasts only about 15 minutes. Contact us if you have questions.

Local Calling Area Expanded

It’s now FREE to call any WCTA landline subscriber, in any community we serve, from any other WCTA landline. This means subscribers can make unlimited calls to any other subscriber within West Central Telephone’s exchanges without incurring a long-distance charge.

The service is included at no extra charge and allows Intra-company calls, or member-to-member calls, for FREE, and you don’t have to change your dialing patterns. For example, a Wolf Lake subscriber calling our Sebeka office previously dialed 1-218-837-5151 which incurred a long-distance charge. Now, with the expanded local calling area, the Wolf Lake subscriber can place that same call by dialing either 1-218-837-5151 or simply 837-5151 without incurring any long-distance charges.*

Please contact us if you have any questions.

*Toll charges will still apply if the number called isn’t a West Central Telephone landline phone subscriber and is a long-distance call.