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Walton EMC Sends 40th Student Group to Washington DC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 24, 2004

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

Monroe, GA -- Jennifer Garrison of Bishop, Julia Schuchard of Lawrenceville, Nick Vaca of Stone Mountain and Karen Ward of Grayson are the 40 th group of students to win a spot on Walton Electric Membership Corporation's Washington Youth Tour.

The 2004 tour takes place this June and makes stops in Atlanta and Washington.   Dozens of local high school students applied to go through the test and interview process used to determine the winners.

Garrison, Schuchard, Vaca and Ward will be part of a larger delegation of winners from EMCs across Georgia that will spend time in Atlanta and Washington.   Once in Washington, the Georgia group will meet with other Youth Tour delegates sent by electric cooperatives from several states.

Besides leadership development sessions, students will lunch with Georgia's congressional delegation, see famous landmarks and historically significant institutions and experience government in action.   Social activities include a riverboat dance on the Potomac and a stop at the ESPN Zone.

Both high school sophomore and juniors who live or attend school in Walton EMC's service area are eligible for the trip.   The announcement for the 41st Youth Tour competition will appear in Walton's January 2005 newsletter and on waltonemc.com.

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

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