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Hooper said being on the track is intense: there is constant work, constant movement. He said he talks a lot with the ath- letes as he walks them from the track to the winners’ stand. “It melts your heart,” Hooper said. “You go for three days and you get your heart in the right place.”


One of the electric cooperative principles is “Concern for


Com munity,” which states: “While focusing on member needs, cooperatives work for the sustainable development of their communities through policies accepted by their members.” Hooper said that anytime the co-ops do volunteer work, this principle stands true.


“It’s not just words, Hooper said. “People believe it and they apply it.”


Ranee Bruce, wife of John Bruce, director of Northwestern


Electric Co-op, has been a Special Olympics volunteer off and on for about 17 years. She said she got involved after her 51-year-old brother, Russell Phillips, started competing. “My brother was always so excited,” Ranee said. “He would come home with his medals and want to go to church to show them off.”


Phillips has a collection of medals—so many his sister is not sure of the number; but she said that most years he brought home one or two medals—many of them silver or gold, and many for the long distance walk. “He’s always been a fast walker,” she said.


Although Phillips has not competed for the past two years, Ranee continues to volunteer.


With her duties as the statewide’s volunteer coordinator, Dempsey sees the work of OAEC and other volun teers as well as the “disappointments and victories of the athletes.” She sees retired co-op employees come back and continue volunteering. She sees what she calls an “amazing demonstration of human- ity.”


Dempsey has been with OAEC for 22 years but said she did not volunteer at the Special Olympics before she took on the coordinator position, partly because she was not sure if she could handle it. However, 12 years later she described the event as the most rewarding part of her job. “And I have a great job,” Dempsey said.


For the volunteers, their time at the Special Olympics pro- duces a variety of personal meanings. For the athletes, those watching can only observe and guess the entirety of what it means to them. Dempsey said she heard of one 13-year-old female athlete who said she would rather go to the Special Olympics than have Christmas.


However, for OAEC Special Olympics volunteers, it does not seem to matter if they are new to volunteering or are old pros or if they are cheering on their family members or athletes they have just met on the track. The words they used to describe the Summer Games, while different, express comparable senti- ments. The words also fit into one, unquestionable category: Meaningful. OL


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