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Peyton Crowder of Laurens has been selected as the South Carolina Youth Leadership Council delegate during the Washington Youth Tour. The son of Eddie and Angie Crowder, Peyton is representing Laurens Electric Cooperative on the annual educational trip. He is one of 69 students sponsored by South Carolina’s electric co-ops who visiting the nation’s capital…
LAURENS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE was pleased to welcome 2,855 members and many guests to our 2018 Annual Meeting June 2. If you couldn’t make it, please allow me to recap the highlights: Stable rates: Your co-op is one of the fastest growing in the state, I noted in my report. Our finances remain sound. Thanks in…
May’s recipient of the employee Pay it Forward funds, Locator Dan McKinney, paid forward $500 to the family of Joy Albright, a single mother who was killed in a car accident May 5. Dan said “Joy leaves behind three children, ages 3, 5, and 7 years. She was on her way to work when tragedy…
April’s recipient of the employee Pay it Forward funds, Customer Service Representative Paula Lyles, paid forward $3,000 to Straight Street in Laurens. The youth center, located downtown at 220 West Main Street, provides an avenue of spiritual and social growth off the public street where youth, ages thirteen through nineteen, can meet with their friends in…
As a not-for-profit electric cooperative owned by the people we serve, every decision and action at Laurens Electric Cooperative is centered on the benefit to our members. Bottom line, our primary goal is providing you with reliable, safe and affordable energy. But our service to you goes beyond poles and power lines. We are your…
Event proceeds to benefit the Community Impact Initiative Jason Tate of Mauldin came just 21 feet from winning $1 million in Saturday’s finals of Laurens Electric Cooperative’s Million Dollar Hole-in-One Shootout at Eagle Zone golf center on Pelham Road in Greenville. Tate won $1,000 for the closest-to-the-$1 million-hole shot. C. W. Crawford placed 2nd and won $500, followed by Brandon…
Four local high school juniors are the winners of expense paid trips this summer, sponsored by Laurens Electric. Peyton Crowder of Laurens, Kensley Lothridge of Ware Shoals, and Savannah Snyder of Simpsonville will attend the Washington D.C. Youth Tour with students from other South Carolina co-ops where they will join more than 1,400 young people…
Event proceeds to benefit the Community Impact Initiative Come to the Eagle Zone Golf Improvement Center on Pelham Road in Greenville Friday, April 27 and Saturday, April 28 for a chance to win $1 million in Laurens Electric Cooperative’s 16th Annual Hole In One Shootout. All proceeds from the event will benefit Laurens Electric’s new…
March’s recipient of the employee Pay it Forward funds, Field Services Dispatcher Brian McCall, paid forward $500 to a The Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America, the only national volunteer health agency in the United States dedicated solely to the fight against myasthenia gravis. “This cause is important to me because my mother in law fought…
Laurens Electric’s new Community Impact Initiative has presented its first grants of 2018. At the Simpsonville Chamber of Commerce annual banquet on March 15, LEC’s David Hammond presented funding to the Simpsonville Chamber Foundation for projects within the city that will be announced publicly this summer, and to Simpsonville Elementary School’s Leadership Development project. Allison…
