Electric cooperatives present top awards

The Alabama Rural Electric Association of Cooperatives, which publishes Alabama Living, presented several awards at its 76th Annual Meeting in April. Clockwise, from top left, Terry Mitchell, CPA, a longtime friend of Alabama’s cooperatives, receives the Eminent Service Award from AREA President and CEO Karl Rayborn; Sand Mountain EC General Manager Mark Malone, second from left, and Rayborn, right, congratulate SMEC linemen Landon Green, Randy Moody, and Ricky Hill, recipients of the AREA Chairman’s Award, for performing life-saving CPR on their fellow lineman, Mason Myers, center, in sub-zero temperatures during restoration work in December 2022; Rayborn presents the Jack Jenkins Cooperative Employee Citizenship Award

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to Southern Pine EC employees Ricky Quates and Greg Dawkins, who organized a charity softball tournament to raise money for the Fallen Linemen Organization to honor the memory of one of their own, lineman Chad Morris; incoming AREA Chairman Vince Johnson of Southern Pine EC presents the chairman’s gavel to outgoing Chairman Tommie Werneth of Baldwin EMC; longtime Baldwin EMC attorney Dan Blackburn receives the Ted Jackson Pathfinder Award for his 34 years of service to the cooperative; and Mike Simpson, who served Sand Mountain EC for 35 years, 27 as general manager, is given the Bill Nichols Award for Rural Electrification for going beyond the normal call of duty to further the principles and progress of rural electrification.

We’ve enjoyed seeing photos from our readers on their travels with Alabama Living! Please send us a photo of you with a copy of the magazine on your travels to: mytravels@ alabamaliving.coop. Be sure to include your name, hometown and electric cooperative, and the location of your photo.We’ll draw a winner for the $25 prize each month.

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Barb and Joe Nenninger of Gulf Shores took Alabama Living to Girdwood, Alaska, and the top of the Alyeska Resort tram. They are members of Baldwin EMC.