Georgia Magazine - January 2021 - 14

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

COURTESY CAES NEWS

EMCs, Georgia Farm Bureau
team up for literacy

Gale Cutler, honored with the Georgia 4-H
Green Jacket Award, gives an acceptance
speech at the 2020 Stars Across Georgia
virtual awards ceremony on Nov. 24.

JULIANNE BARTLETT

Cutler earns
4-H Green
Jacket Award
From left, Angie Burton of the Dooly County chapter of the Georgia Farm Bureau, Rhonda
Bartlett of Elizabeth Harris Library in Unadilla and Sylandi Brown of Middle Georgia EMC in
Vienna pose for a photo at the presentation of a copy of " Full of Beans: Henry Ford Grows a
Car " by Peggy Thomas.

COURTESY COASTAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE

lectric membership cooperative (EMC) employees statewide joined local
county Farm Bureau representatives to present public libraries with copies
of the children's book " Full of Beans: Henry Ford Grows a Car " by Peggy
Thomas. The presentations took place Oct. 19-23, which is National Friends of
Libraries Week as well as Careers in Energy Week.
The annual donation of the American Farm Bureau's book of the year is an
effort by the Georgia Farm Bureau (GFB) to encourage agricultural literacy.
Tucker-based Georgia EMC makes an annual donation to the GFB's Georgia
Foundation for Agriculture, which is used in part to sponsor the program.
Each donated book
includes a bookplate with
Flag-raising honors 9/11 first responders
logos of both organizations. This year, nine EMCs
On Nov. 17, members of the
joined their local Farm
East Liberty County AmeriBureau county representacan Legion Post 321 raised a
tives to make presentations
20-foot-by-30-foot U.S. flag at
in their service territories
the Midway headquarters of
and share photos of the
Coastal Electric Cooperative.
events on social media.
The flag will be flown in all 12
Participating EMCs were
American Legion districts in
Altamaha (based in Lyons),
Georgia and then presented
on Sept. 11 this year to New
Amicalola (Jasper), Central
York City firefighters who
Georgia (Jackson), Colquitt
survived the fall of the World
(Moultrie), Flint Energies
Trade Center towers in 2001.
(Reynolds), Hart (Hartwell),
From left are Dwight Biechler,
Jackson (Jefferson), Middle
Jeff Bowen, Dennis Fitzgerald
Georgia (Vienna) and
and Bill Walter.
Upson (Thomaston).

Georgia Magazine

January 2021

ale Cutler, senior public relations coordinator at Georgia
Electric Membership Corp.
(EMC) in Tucker, was the 2020
recipient of the prestigious Georgia
4-H Green Jacket Award. In addition
to Cutler's role at Georgia EMC, she
is an integral member of the Georgia
4-H Advisory Committee.
Awarded each year since 2008,
the Green Jacket Award recognizes
an outstanding public servant who
continuously exhibits tremendous
support for and commitment to the
4-H program and its initiatives.
" The success of the Georgia
4-H program is made possible by
excellent Extension staff, volunteers
and donors who support our efforts
to help 4-H members achieve their
goals and dreams, " Georgia 4-H
Leader Arch Smith said. " The Stars
Across Georgia program recognizes
outstanding 4-H adults who exemplify the best of Georgia 4-H. "
For more information about
the awards and the Georgia 4-H
program, visit georgia4h.org.
-Sean Montgomery, CAES
(University of Georgia College
of Agricultural & Environmental
Sciences) News

http://www.georgia4h.org

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