For Immediate Release
Laurens Electric Cooperative
names Washington Youth Tour winners
Lashawnda Harkness and Wesley Adam Owings are the winners
of an expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. sponsored
by Laurens Electric Cooperative. They will travel with
other South Carolina students to the nation's capital
where they will join more than 1,400 students from across
the country. The nation's electric cooperatives sponsor
the one-week event each June.
"We sponsor this tour as part of our commitment
to the young people in our service area," said Jim
Donahoo, Director of Marketing of the cooperative. "We
do this to educate high school juniors about American
history and government and about the history and business
principles of electric cooperatives."
The
students attending this year’s Washington
Youth Tour to represent Laurens Electric Cooperative
are Lashawnda Harkness of Taylors, a junior at Riverside
High School, daughter of Josephine Harkness, and Wesley
Adam Owings of Mountville, a junior at Clinton High School
and the son of Wanda and Henry Pitts.
These
students were selected from a group of high school
students who completed an application and were interviewed
by a panel of judges. They will be among 43 other
young people from all over the state participating in
the tour to the nation's capital city, June 10 - 15.
During their stay in Washington, the students will visit
with their representatives and senators and tour sites
of historical significance.
Youth Tour participants from 39 states will meet in
Washington, D.C. for the tour, which has been conducted
for more than 40 years.
Laurens
Electric Cooperative serves 49,000 member-owners in
Laurens, Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Newberry,
Union, and Abbeville counties. Since 1939, the co-op
has been dedicated to being the provider of choice
for energy and related services in the Upstate.
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