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currents Hollywood Honors Linemen


If you've ever been stranded at home without electricity for days, you already know your electric utility linemen are heroes. Now, the rest of the


world knows, thanks to a Hollywood movie starring John Travolta.


"Life on the Line" pits Travolta, as Texas line foreman Beau Ginner, against a powerful mega-storm that threatens to shut down a city while placing Beau's beloved niece in imminent danger. Travolta researched his role by attending lineman training and visiting at length with real world line workers.


Hardly a surprise, it falls to Beau and crew to save the day by heading into the storm, complete with exploding transformers, downed wires and electric poles snapping in pieces. The human drama is underscored with flashbacks to Beau's younger days when his own carelessness caused the death of his brother and fellow lineman.


The movie is available for download on Netflix and Amazon. Watch it —and remember to thank a lineman on National Lineman Appreciation Day on April 10.


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Want to Run For Your Co-op Board? Please read the qualifications before making a decision


serves an equally important purpose— preserving and protecting the affordability of electric service in rural areas. Any co-op member can run for trustee of their district as long as that candidate meets certain qualifications and is willing to devote the time and training required to become an effective leader.


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This year, co-op members will nominate trustees for Districts 1, 3 and 6. Trustee qualifications are found in Section 3 of the ECE bylaws and policies.


SECTION 3. QUALIFICATIONS. No person shall be eligible to become or remain a Trustee of the Cooperative who:


(a) is not a member of the Cooperative or has not been a member continuously for at least one (1) year prior to nomination; or


(b) who ceases to be a member of the Cooperative after election as a Trustee; or


(c) who does not receive electric service from the Cooperative at his/ her primary permanent residential abode in the Trustee District from which he/she was elected as Trustee; or


(d) is in any way employed by or financially interested in a competing enterprise or a business selling electric


erving your electric cooperative as an elected trustee is an important rural leadership position that


energy, services or supplies to the Cooperative or its subsidiary businesses; or


(e) is the incumbent of or candidate for an elected public office in connection with which a salary or compensation in excess of $1,000.00 per annum is paid; or


(f) has been convicted, pled guilty or pled nolo contender to a felony; or


(g) is, becomes, or was an employee of the Cooperative, a subsidiary of the Cooperative or a labor union which represents, or has represented, or has endeavored to represent any employee of the Cooperative during the preceding five (5) years prior to time of filing or being nominated; or


(h) is, and if elected and seated as a trustee will continue to be, a close relative of an incumbent trustee or of an employee of the Cooperative. A "close relative" means a person who is related to the principal person. By consanguinity or affinity. To the third degree or less - that is a person who is either a spouse, child, grandchild, great grandchild, parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, nephew, or niece, by blood or by law of the principal.


For a copy of the East Central Electric Cooperative bylaws, please call your co-op at 918-756-0833, or pick up a copy at ECE headquarters at 2001 S. Wood Drive in Okmulgee.


■ Thursday, June 22 • 6:30 pm


ECE District 1, 3 and 6 Meetings ECE Headquarters 2001 S. Wood Drive, Okmulgee


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2 | APRIL 2017 | country living ■ Friday, July 27 • Registration at 5:00 pm


East Central Electric Annual Meeting Covelle Hall, OSU Institute of Technology 1st Street & Willham Drive, Okmulgee


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