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Local Students Head to Washington D.C.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 19, 2007

Contact Katie Woodall, 770/266-2572

MONROE, Ga. - Studying paid off for four local students. Jimmy Jia and Blake Vander Wood of Lilburn, Brandon Lewis of Loganville and Jonathan Scoggins of Monroe won a spot on Walton Electric Membership Corporation's Washington Youth Tour.

These students placed in the top eight on the written test covering basic electricity, cooperatives, energy and electrical safety. Each candidate proceeded to an interview session where judges selected the top four as delegates for the trip.

Jia, a junior at Parkview; Lewis, a sophomore at South Gwinnett; Scoggins, a home schooled junior; Vander Wood, a junior at Brookwood will join students from EMCs across the state in Atlanta to kickoff the tour this June.

Delegates participate in leadership exercises and tour Roosevelt's Little White House in Warm Springs before traveling to Washington where Georgia's delegation convenes with 1,400 youth from cooperatives across the nation.

Students spend a day on Capitol Hill meeting with Georgia's Congressional Delegation and participating in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Other highlights include a visit to all the Washington monuments, the Smithsonian and the White House.

All high school sophomores and juniors who live or go to school in Walton EMC's service area are eligible to apply for the Washington Youth Tour. Applications for next year's tour will be available at waltonemc.com in January 2008.

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