WINNERS
Helping with College Expense$ Four Area Students Win Youth Tour Scholarships
Oologah High School teacher Rebekah Askew (center) congratu- lates her students Summer Shaffer (left) and Jessi Dunbar.
Clara Guerrera (center) and Larissa Dutton, Catoosa High School, share their good news with teacher Diane Dodd.
Four outstanding area students are winners of scholarships awarded through VVEC’s annual Youth Tour com-
petition. Jessi Dunbar, Oologah High School, and Larissa Dutton, Catoosa High School, both won $750 scholar- ships, while Summer Shaffer, Oologah High School, and Clara Guerrera, Catoosa High School, won $500 scholar- ships.
Dunbar is the daughter of Lori Escalanta, Oologah; Dutton is the daughter of Janeice Dutton, Catoosa; Shaffer is the daughter of Wende Shaffer, Talala, and Guerrera is the daughter of Christy Guerrera, Catoosa. “Changes to this year’s Youth Tour program are allowing us to offer more scholarships,” explains Kay Rabbitt-
Brower, VVEC youth programs coordinator. “In the past, we have awarded just two $500 scholarships, but this year we are excited to be awarding two $750 scholarships also.” The scholarships are awarded to the runners-up in the Washington Youth Tour program, which is open to ju- niors attending a school in VVEC’s service territory or who are home-schooled in the co-op’s service territory.
Reminder
Monthly Customer Charges Increase June 1 Beginning June 1, the customer
charge on members’ monthly electric bills is increasing by about $5 for residential and small com- mercial consumers. Large power consumers will see an increase of less than $10 a month. Currently, the customer
charge for residential consumers is $20.20. June 1 it will increase to $25.
Customer charge for small
commercial class members will increase from $25.25 to $30. Large power consumers will see an increase from $50.50 to $60. VVEC Director of Finance
Clyde Willard says when customer charges are set too low, it causes a portion of the fixed cost to be recovered in energy charges. “Rate designs such as this tend to result in members who use large amounts of electricity paying a
greater portion of the fixed costs when compared to the fixed costs being recovered from the smaller electric users.
“Our intent is for there to be equality through each rate class,” says Willard.
He adds this change will result in an increase in the co-op’s an- nual revenues of about 3 percent.
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