CONNECTIONS JANUARY 2020 | THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF COBB ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
Upcoming events Office closing Cobb EMC will be closed Jan. 1 in observance of New Year’s Day and Jan. 20, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Cobb EMC hosts reading event for 15,000 students
Employees are always on call for emergencies. To report an outage by phone, call 770-429-2100. You can also report an outage online at cobbemc.com/outage or with the free Cobb EMC app.
Open board meeting The Cobb EMC Board of Directors will host an open board meeting on Jan. 28 at 4 p.m. in the Cobb EMC board room. To RSVP, visit cobbemc.com/boardmeeting or call 678-355-3225.
HVAC Tuneup Rebate The HVAC Tuneup Rebate begins March 1. To get a reminder email, go to cobbemc.com/enewsletter.
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The Cobb EMC Community Foundation has awarded more than $4.8 million to local charities and nonprofits. Thank you to generous members who round up their bills to make this possible. Visit cobbemc.com/foundation for a full list of recipients or to learn how to request funding.
Authors and illustrators celebrate a successful Literacy Week.
Cobb EMC and Gas South recently hosted Literacy Week, a weeklong celebration of reading, illustration and writing at 35 schools in metro Atlanta. Throughout the week, more than 15,000 students were visited by nine children’s book authors, including the New York Times bestselling author/ illustrator Brian Lies, who shared his 2019 Caldecott Honor Book, “The Rough Patch,” throughout the weeklong celebration. Local author Angelique Monet also impressed students with her augmented reality book, “The Bravest Worrier,” which comes to life with a free mobile app developed by the author’s husband. “Literacy Week offers students a chance to expand their creativity through writing and illustration and encourages them to build lifelong
reading habits,” says Mark Justice, director of education and community relations at Cobb EMC. “We’re dedicated to the communities we serve, and we’re proud to work with Gas South and our local schools to provide these kinds of interactive learning opportunities.” “It’s amazing to see the effect Literacy Week has on children in our local communities,” says Carley Stephens, community affairs program manager at Gas South. “They look up to the local authors and really engage with them to make the stories come to life. The students are able to engage in ways they haven’t been able to in the past, which helps them learn in a whole new way. We’re proud to partner with Cobb EMC every year to make this happen.”
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