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Walton EMC Contest Offers Once-in-a-Lifetime

Washington Experience

For Immediate Release

January 28, 2004

Contact Greg Brooks, 770/266-2307 or Katie Woodall, 770/266-2572

MONROE, Ga.-Four local high school students will have a unique leadership experience this summer through Walton Electric Membership Corporation's Washington Youth Tour.

Tenth and eleventh graders are eligible to win a spot on the tour and participate in its leadership development activities.  Entrants must either live or attend a school in Walton EMC's service area.

Interested students should first complete an entry form and return it to Walton EMC by February 20.   Forms are available by sending e-mail to gbrooks@waltonemc.com or calling 770/267-6253, ext. 1307.  The selection process includes a written test and short interview.

During the week of June 10-17, students will first see state government in action at Georgia's Capitol and learn how Georgia's EMCs work together through their state trade association to deliver power to their consumers.

Then in Washington, participants will visit cornerstones of United States government and history.   Leadership development activities include a luncheon with Georgia's congressional delegation, one of the trip's many highlights.

"These spectacular sights and memories are ones that will be engraved in my mind forever," says Christopher Dolvin of Oconee County High, a 2003 Youth Tour winner.

2004 marks Walton EMC's 40 th year of sending young people to the nation's capital "where they can actually see what the flag stands for," in the words of then-Senator Lyndon Johnson in a speech where he encouraged electric co-ops to begin the program.

Walton EMC is a consumer-owned electric company with 105,000 accounts in ten Northeast Georgia counties between Atlanta and Athens.