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ECE Offers Plugged In Presentations To Groups
Your electric cooperative provides more than electricity for its members. Are you "plugged in" to these additional services?
Thanks to a new public awareness
campaign known as Plugged In, local communities are learning more about East Central Electric's residential energy saving programs, youth activities, safety education presentations, college scholarships, community solar program, and more.
Billy Moore, ECE director of member services, said co-op employees are presenting Plugged In programs five times per month to groups such as rural fire departments, rural water districts, senior citizen's centers, and others.
The presentations aim to reach a broad audience who may or may not be co-op members. "We have programs that are available beyond our membership, and this is a good way to reach them," Moore stressed.
If you'd like to schedule a Plugged In presentation, please call ECE at 918-756-0833.
Jason Childress
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ECE Lineman Chosen To Electrify Guatemalan Village
E
ast Central Electric lineman Jason Childress will serve on a special cooperative mission to electrify a
remote village in northwestern Guatemala in October. Childress will work alongside other Oklahoma electric co-op linemen selected by the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives(OAEC) to bring lights to the village.
“We are proud to send an ambassador from our home co-op to help bring electricity to those who have not been as fortunate as we have,” said East Central Electric Cooperative’s General Manager Tim Smith. “It speaks to the value of the cooperative
difference that transcends borders.”
The announcement comes after a successful electrification project that took place in the country of Bolivia in 2016, when volunteers from Oklahoma and Missouri’s electric cooperatives brought electricity to two Amazonian villages.
“Bringing electricity to remote areas in developing countries takes electric cooperatives back to their roots,” says OAEC General Manager Chris Meyers. “It reinforces our commitment to
improve the quality of life for local communities in our home and abroad.”
The OAEC International Committee, comprised of trustees from the statewide association, selected the team of 13 volunteers and three alternates for the upcoming trip.
“We are grateful for the overwhelming response of Oklahoma co-op linemen who are willing to leave their homes to empower far-away communities,” says International Committee Chairman Jimmy Taylor. “Access to electricity will bring economic empowerment, better access to health care and enhanced safety for these villagers. It’s a life-changing gift.”
The electrification project is coordinated through the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s (NRECA) philanthropic arm, NRECA International Foundation. The name of the isolated village is Chiis, which is located in the Guatemalan state of Alta Verapaz. The linemen will provide electricity to nearly 45 homes over three miles of line. The village mainly produces beans and corn for self-consumption.
Oklahoma’s electric cooperatives established a 501(c)3 not-for- profit, The Oklahoma Energy Trails Foundation, to support this cause. All contributions are tax-deductible.
To learn more about Oklahoma Energy Trails, please visit
http://tinyurl.com/energytrails.
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2 | MAY 2017 | country living
“Bringing electricity to remote areas in developing
countries...reinforces our commitment to improve the quality of life for local communities in our home and abroad.”
OKLAHOMA ASSOCIATION OF ELETRIC COOPERATIVES —CHRIS MEYERS, CEO
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