Georgia Magazine - January 2020 - 14

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News from Georgia's electric co-ops * Compiled by Amy Schneider

Georgia EMC honors co-ops,
lifesavers

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ach year, Tucker-based Georgia Electric Membership Corp. (EMC) recognizes EMCs for outstanding safety records the previous year and presents
its Community Service and Volunteerism Awards to EMCs and employees
for their efforts to improve and strengthen their communities through corporate
citizenship; leadership in economic development, tourism, education and school
and youth programs; and charitable giving and community support. Below are the
2019 award recipients and honorees.

GreyStone Power Corp., Douglasville

CASEY JONES

EMC of the Year

CASEY JONES

Sydney Lawson, a 2019 Washington Youth
Tour delegate sponsored by Middle Georgia
EMC in Vienna, was chosen by her peers to
be the Georgia delegation's representative
to the National Rural Electric Cooperative
Association Youth Leadership Council (YLC).
Every year, the YLC representative addresses
Georgia EMC's Annual Meeting.

Wendy Sellers (left), president and CEO of Sandersville-based Washington EMC, and Harry
Reeves (right), vice president of training, education and safety at Tucker-based Georgia EMC,
present the EMC of the Year award to GreyStone Power Corp., represented by Gary Miller
(center left), president and CEO, and Maribeth Wansley, a member of the board of directors.

No lost-time accidents
(number of consecutive years)
Upson EMC, Thomaston (11)
Carroll EMC, Carrollton (nine)
Coastal Electric Cooperative, Midway (six)
Georgia Transmission Corp., Tucker (six)
Georgia System Operations Corp., Tucker
(four)
Tri-County EMC, Gray (three)
Excelsior EMC, Metter (two)
Oconee EMC, Dudley (two)
Oglethorpe Power Corp., Tucker (two)
Flint Energies, Reynolds (one)
Habersham EMC, Clarkesville (one)
Satilla Rural EMC, Alma (one)
Washington EMC, Sandersville (one)

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Safety accreditation
programs completed
National Rural Electric Cooperative
Association's (NRECA) Rural Electric
Safety Accreditation Program
Carroll EMC
Cobb EMC, Marietta
Mitchell EMC, Camilla
Oglethorpe Power Corp.
Electric Cooperative Safety
Accreditation Program of Georgia
Altamaha EMC, Lyons
Blue Ridge Mountain EMC, Young Harris
Carroll EMC
Central Georgia EMC, Jackson
Cobb EMC
Colquitt EMC, Moultrie

Georgia Transmission Corp.
Hart EMC, Hartwell
Irwin EMC, Ocilla
Little Ocmulgee EMC, Alamo
Mitchell EMC
North Georgia EMC, Dalton
Okefenoke Rural EMC, Nahunta
Planters EMC, Millen
Satilla Rural EMC
Upson EMC
Life Saving Award
(for rescuing someone from
grave and immediate danger)
Dustin Arrington, Coweta-Fayette EMC,
Palmetto
Jacob Brumbelow, Brian Carden, Nabil
Chabayta, Brett Corley, Austin
Frazier, Matt Ingram and Taylor
Shadrix, GreyStone Power Corp.
Chuck Wood, Mark Cleveland and Derrick
Lawrence, Hart EMC
Greg Mathis, Jackson EMC, Jefferson
Jerrod Berresford and Dustin Haley,
Oglethorpe Power Corp.
-Beth McMillan
Georgia Magazine - January 2020

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