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Local Students Eligible for Leadership Training

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 30, 2006

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

MONROE, Ga. - Four local high school students will earn 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 17. Forms are available by going online or calling 770/266-2307.  The selection process includes a test and short interview.

During the week of June 8-15, winners 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 customer-owners.

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.

“I was blessed…to learn about and admire the gracious country in which we live and make friends that are incomparable and everlasting,” said Anna Bleau of Brookwood High, a 2005 Youth Tour winner.

2006 marks Walton EMC's 41 st 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 1957 speech where he encouraged electric co-ops to begin the program.

Walton EMC is a consumer-owned electric company with 110,000 accounts in ten Northeast Georgia counties between Atlanta and Athens.

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