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16 Students Vying for Trip to Washington D.C.
TALLADEGA, AL - Sixteen students are competing this year for the Coosa Valley
Electric Cooperative Youth Tour, the winners of which go on a six-day trip to
our nation's capital. The event is intended for 11th graders and attracts participation
from 11 schools in the CVEC service area.
Students at area schools were invited to write essays on electric cooperatives.
Teachers from each participating school selected winners and a panel of outside
judges graded the essays and awarded points.
School-level winners will be hosted at a luncheon at CVEC headquarters in Talladega
on Thursday, March 6. They will participate in two more phases of the contest:
a written exam testing their knowledge of cooperatives; and 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, students receive points for the essay, the written
exam and the interview.
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.
"Both trips are an excellent opportunity for students to not only learn
about our government and our country, but they learn about electric cooperatives
as well," said Frank Kujawski, CVEC general manager.
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 Energy®
cooperative. Nationwide, some 1,000 cooperatives provide power to rural America,
and 570 of those operate under the Touchstone Energy umbrella.
PHOTO ID: Joleanne Gingles, Childersburg High School; Amy Gravlee and Annah
Hodges, Pell City H.S.; Tiffany Acker and Shannon Brasher, Vincent H.S.; Demetria
Kelly and Howard Maddox, Talladega County Central H.S.; Christina Hubbard and
Corvious, Munford H.S.; Davis Varner and Megan Laney, Westbrook Christian School;
Monique McGinnis, B.B. Comer H.S.; Sarah Woodin and Sabrina Thomas, Talladega
H.S.; Eric McGowan and Jonathan Harris, Lincoln H.S.
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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