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Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative sponsors student competition for trip to
Washington, D.C.
TALLADEGA, AL - Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative's eleventh annual Youth Tour
competition is in full swing, attracting participation from 11th graders at
11 schools in the CVEC service area.
Students at area schools were invited to write essays on electric cooperatives.
Teachers selected winners from each participating school and a panel of outside
judges has judged those essays.
School-level winners will be hosted in a luncheon at CVEC headquarters in Talladega
on Thursday, March 14, where they will participate in the other two phases of
the contest: Taking a written test on their knowledge of cooperatives and participating
in a panel interview with members of the CVEC Board of Trustees.
Each of the school-level winners will receive a $50 savings bond.
In the Youth Tour competition, points are awarded for the essay portion, the
test portion and the interview portion.
The two students with the highest totals will receive two all-expenses-paid
trips: one to Montgomery for three days in April; and a six-day trip to Washington,
D.C., in June.
It's a good learning experience for students to actually get go to Washington,
D.C., and see first hand how everything works.
Cooperatives throughout the United States participate in the event, and the
local winners will join their counterparts from coast-to-coast in Washington,
D.C., in June.
Coosa Valley Electric, which serves more than 15,000 customers in Talladega,
St. Clair, Shelby, Clay, Etowah and Calhoun counties, is a Touchstone Energy7
cooperative. Nationwide, some 1,000 cooperatives provide power to rural America,
and 570 of those operate under the Touchstone Energy umbrella.
For more information, contact:
Jon Cullimore 362-4180 or 1-800-273-7210, ext. 225, Fax: 256-761-2615, Cell: 256-299-0551
Barbara Edmondson 1-800-273-7210, ext. 224
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