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Clearing the Way for Your Power

TERRY WHITWORTH SHARES HIS ANTIQUE INSULATORS

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veryone likes to hear when they are doing something well. I think it is more important that you let people know when there is room for improvement.

That information allows us to make important changes.

According to member surveys, you tell us you are pleased with the service we provide. We conduct regular customer service surveys as well as customer satisfaction surveys every other year where you let us know what we are doing well and what needs improvement.

We are constantly working to exceed your expectations.

In 1952, we began printing this newsletter, sending important membership information to your homes every month. In those early years, we shared the phone number of the line crew leader you should call if your power was interrupted and news about our rapidly expanding distribution system.

In 1997, we went global on the worldwide web, introducing our members to www.jacksonemc.com.

Initially, we were sharing information about products and services. We’ve changed along the way, looking to our members to guide us. We created a customer service portal that is available 24/7 after website research where you told us you are most interested in coming to the site to pay your bill or receive outage information.

Adapting to lifestyle changes, our site has become a mobile application giving you easy access to pay your​ ​bill and report outages from your phone.

We’re communicating through social media channels as well. More than 5,000 of you follow our Twitter feed and like our Facebook page.

Our communications staff works to offer you new and innovative ways to receive information, making sure we are sharing the news and information that is most important to you in a way that fits your lifestyle. Along the way, we’ve reached out to you for feedback on how you want to communicate with your cooperative and what services you need access to. And you’ve

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JEMCO news VOL. 64, NO. 7, JULY 2015 (ISSN 1061-5601), IS PUBLISHED

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provided guidance to help us better serve you. We are asking again.

This month, we are conducting communications research into our use of jacksonemc. com, social media, advertising, bill messages and this monthly newsletter, Jemco News. Some of you will be called for your insight and opinion.

Some others will be asked to participate in focus groups where we gain even more insight into how to communicate with one another. I ask that you share openly and honestly.

If we don’t call you, you can still help our communications and, in turn, our member service. We’ve developed a short survey to capture your answers. Visit our website for more information.

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Whitworth’s first insulator was a splurge at $30; most cost a dollar or less.

“I collect these because this is my business, and understanding the history is interesting to me,” he said.

Whitworth began his career at Jackson EMC in 1979 as a lineman. He now serves as District Operations Superintendent in Gainesville.

His collection includes rare items, like the “Mickey Mouse” insulators he favors, as well as several colored communication insulators, tiny radio antenna insulators and a porcelain insulator dated the year he was married, 1978. He began collecting insulators about 15 years ago.

He admits he’d like to have some he and his friends used to throw rocks at when they were just boys.

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If we don’t call you, you can still help our communications and, in turn, our member service. We’ve developed a short survey to capture your answers. Visit our website for more information.

”I BOUGHT THE FIRST ONE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD ON THE WAY TO GATLINBURG. IT WAS A MICKEY MOUSE,” TERRY WHITWORTH SAID OF HIS COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE INSULATORS.

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“I collect these because this is my business, and understanding the history is interesting to me,” he said.

Whitworth began his career at Jackson EMC in 1979 as a lineman. He now serves as District Operations Superintendent in Gainesville.

His collection includes rare items, like the “Mickey Mouse” insulators he favors, as well as several colored communication insulators, tiny radio antenna insulators and a porcelain insulator dated the year he was married, 1978. He began collecting insulators about 15 years ago.

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The industry transitioned from colored glass to clear glass, to ceramic and now to polymer or plastic. As new lines are built, or older equipment is replaced, the new plastic insulators are used.

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Tree Maintenance Program When trees grow into electrical lines, they can create safety hazards and disrupt service. During high winds, strong thunderstorms or snow or ice storms, limbs and even whole trees can fall on electric lines, tearing down energized lines and equipment. Broken limbs can cause outages just by making contact with electric lines and equipment. The water, sap and chemicals in trees are excellent electricity conductors. If a tree has grown into a power line, electricity can travel through the tree to the ground and create an electrocution hazard. Trees touching power lines can also cause fires.

Jackson EMC maintains the area around the lines, known as the right-of-way, to keep members and employees safe.

For reliable service, the lines need to be clean and clear. – Roberson Crews work year-round, Monday to Thursday from 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. We have a lot of miles, so we have to clear all year long. – Roberson

To members about the Tree Maintenance Program:

A lot of people don’t understand the voltage on the line and how dangerous it is. We are doing this for safety; for our safety, and theirs.

Plus, if we can take the time now to clear it, you won’t have to wait for us to make a path after a storm. – Benton Never attempt to trim or remove a tree that has power lines running through it. If you discover trees growing into lines, please call your local Jackson EMC office to report it. – Mize

Here are the facts about the program from men charged with managing the 6,552 miles

I own property too. We don’t want to tear up your property, just like we don’t want ours messed up. – Pressley

When do crews clear?

of overhead wire powering the homes and businesses of Jackson EMC's members.

These men wield chainsaws, keeping vegetation at bay, clearing the path for your power. During storms they ride the lines, looking for fallen trees that need to be cleared, declaring areas safe for passage by linemen looking to restore power. Right-ofway crews work year-round to remove threats to your power supply and to keep workers safe from potential danger.

Don’t plant Leyland Cypress or Bradford Pear trees under power lines. They grow too tall, too fast. – Waters

One crew can clear three miles a month. In all, our crews clear 1,200 miles each year. We can reach each mile of line about every five to six years. – Benton

Gwinnett homeowner Liza Bowden and her grandson Silas Cooper talk to Todd Bento

Who does the work?

Is trimming safe

All contractor crews are supervised by Jackson EMC personnel. When trees are being trimmed, Jackson EMC’s supervisors will be in the area, and a notice that the contractor is working for Jackson EMC will be posted on all contractor vehicles. – Mize

Jackson EMC has five supervisors who oversee 32 independent, tree-trimming contractor crews that maintain its right-of-way. The contractors work 40 hours a week and are professionals in the field of utility arboriculture and use proven industry-standard pruning techniques, proper tools and safety practices.

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Who does the work?

Is trimming safe for trees?

All contractor crews are supervised by Jackson EMC personnel. When trees are being trimmed, Jackson EMC’s supervisors will be in the area, and a notice that the contractor is working for Jackson EMC will be posted on all contractor vehicles. – Mize

Jackson EMC has five supervisors who oversee 32 independent, tree-trimming contractor crews that maintain its right-of-way. The contractors work 40 hours a week and are professionals in the field of utility arboriculture and use proven industry-standard pruning techniques, proper tools and safety practices.

Great care is taken to ensure limbs that must be cut from trees are done to protect the tree and keep it growing safely away from lines. – Benton Jackson EMC uses directional trimming to maintain clearances between trees and power lines. Directional trimming is recommended by the International Society of Arboriculture, American National Standards Institute and the National Arbor Day Foundation. – Mize

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I knock on their doors and let them know.

I like to talk to them. They will tell you where risks are on their property – like where the septic tank is buried. – Pressley

Favorite part of the job:

Gratification of doing the job. It is a very rewarding career, keeping the lights on for people. I like to hear them say ‘my lights never go out.’ – Waters

We only cut what we have to, which is a clearance of 15 feet in each direction of the line: left, right and under. – Benton

I like working outside and meeting our customers. – Roberson

Trees are trimmed, underbrush is mowed down and trees growing too tall under the lines are taken down or scaled back. – Waters

I enjoy coming to work every day; working with the crews, and I have a good boss. I like talking with customers and hearing about the history of the lines. – Benton

We consider several factors when pruning a tree for line clearance, in priority order: public and right-of-way worker safety, service reliability, correct arboriculture pruning techniques, and finally, aesthetics. – Mize

It gets hot and it gets cold. But I get to breathe fresh air every day and work outside. – Pressley

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Camp Hollywood: Where Everyone’s a Star is an innovative summer day camp for children with special needs.

“We model the camp on favorite family and children movies, either new movies or classics that families and children love,” said Camp Director Joy Trotti.

The 2015 camp will feature activities centered on popular movies: Dolphin Tale, Big Hero Six, Cinderella, Teen Beach Movie and Inspector Gadget. Activities are designed so that all campers can fully participate. During the “Cooks with Books” activity for Teen Beach Movie, for example, kids make ice cream while listening to a book about the treat.

“Parents of children who have significant disabilities or medical issues want their kids to have worthwhile summer experiences that build character, social skills and

Jackson Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) has corporate office Highway in Jefferson, Ga., with district offices in Gainesville, Lawrence Jackson EMC is a cooperative providing electric service to 10 northeast G Barrow, Clarke, Franklin, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison a The cooperative is governed by a nine-member board of directors representing the service area. Board members serve three-year sta Three will be elected at Annual Meeting, Thursday, September 17, a offices in Jefferson.

Nominations are presented by a nominating committee or by a duly Procedures detailing the nominations process are contained in the available at any office. At each Annual Meeting of Members, three ( elected, by and from the members, to serve for a term of three years sors shall have been elected and shall have qualified, subject to the bylaws with respect to the removal of directors, in the following rota County or Lumpkin County, one from Barrow County, one from Gwin Clarke County, one from Jackson County, one from Gwinnett Count County or Franklin County, one from Jackson County, one from Mad Oglethorpe County.

friendships. So many of our children don’t have other camps to go to,” Trotti said. "The nice thing about FOCUS is we don’t turn many kids away. We can handle tube feeding and tracheostomy, seizures, medicines, breathing treatments and behavior disorders.”

The Jackson EMC Foundation awarded $5,500 to fund 32 partial scholarships to campers at its May meeting. Thanks to the grant, each camper can attend for $150, even though the camp costs $350 each to deliver.

The camp runs for five weeks with each camper attending a five-day session, with a camper-to-counselor ratio of one-to-four.

Camp counselors are nurses, therapists and special educators who can care for the special needs of the campers.

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Foundation Awards $73,600 at May meeting

“When I tasted this, about a week. I vary

The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors awarded a total of $73,600 in grants to organizations during its May meeting, including $70,100 to organizations and $3,500 to an individual.

Organizational Grant Recipients: $15,000 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta’s Lawrenceville Unit for its Homework Help/Afterschool Program, which uses staff and volunteers to provide club members with homework help, specialized tutoring and high-yield learning activities. $15,000 to Lindsay’s Legacy Mentoring, Inc. in Jackson County to help fund the coordinator position for a program that recruits and trains adult mentors to work with students in kindergarten through 12th grade in all three school systems within the county, helping to ensure those young people become healthy, educated and employable. $6,500 to ACTION, Inc., for the Full Plate Food Program, which uses staff and volunteers to collect surplus food donated by Athensarea restaurants, then redistribute that food to homeless shelters

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and other human service agencies, reducing hunger and the food budgets of those agencies. $6,500 to the Clarke County Mentor Program, a broad-based, grassroots effort to provide individual support for public school students in 1st through 12th grades, promoting academic and personal success; to recruit, train and support new mentors. $5,500 to Families of Children Under Stress (FOCUS), a nonprofit agency serving children, teens and adults with developmental disabilities and their families, to help provide Camp Hollywood in Lawrenceville, a unique summer day camp where children with developmental disabilities can build social skills, self-respect, character and community living skills. $5,000 to the Quinlan Visual Arts Center in Gainesville to enable about 40 disadvantaged,

$4,000 to the Lumpkin County Family Connection for its Backpack Buddy program, which provides a weekend supply of seven meals each week to children who are food insecure.

but exceptional students with exemplary artistic skills entering 1st through 8th grades at Title I schools in Banks, Hall, Jackson, Gwinnett and Lumpkin counties attend one-week Art Camp sessions.

$3,600 to Barrow Ministry Village, a community ministry established through a partnership of local churches which provides foster care support, counseling services and food to those in need, to fund a monthly mobile distribution of about 10,000 pounds of food to about 220 people.

$5,000 to the Side by Side Brain Injury Club, a Gwinnett nonprofit organization that helps individuals recovering from traumatic brain injury to regain employment and living skills, to provide a month of rehabilitation program fees for six brain-injured adults from Gwinnett and Hall counties.

$3,500 to make handicappedaccessible modifications to a van for a teenage girl with cerebral palsy.

For more information about the Jackson EMC Foundation, or to apply for a grant, visit www.jacksonemc. com/jemcfoundation.

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Jackson Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) has corporate offices at 850 Commerce Highway in Jefferson, Ga., with district offices in Gainesville, Lawrenceville, Jefferson and Hull.

Jackson EMC is a cooperative providing electric service to 10 northeast Georgia counties – Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Franklin, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison and Oglethorpe.

The cooperative is governed by a nine-member board of directors geographically representing the service area. Board members serve three-year staggered terms.

Three will be elected at Annual Meeting, Thursday, September 17, at the corporate offices in Jefferson.

Nominations are presented by a nominating committee or by a duly processed petition.

Procedures detailing the nominations process are contained in the Jackson EMC bylaws available at any office. At each Annual Meeting of Members, three (3) directors shall be elected, by and from the members, to serve for a term of three years, or until their successors shall have been elected and shall have qualified, subject to the provisions of these bylaws with respect to the removal of directors, in the following rotation: one from Hall County or Lumpkin County, one from Barrow County, one from Gwinnett County; one from Clarke County, one from Jackson County, one from Gwinnett County; one from Banks County or Franklin County, one from Jackson County, one from Madison County or Oglethorpe County.

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Mr. Quillon Butler Auburn, GA • Gwinnett County Ms. Alicia Williams Braselton, GA • Gwinnett County Mrs. Sherry Rogers Chestnut Mountain, GA • Hall County Mr. Tim Booth Jefferson, GA • Jackson County Mr. E.R. “Ronnie” Healan Athens, GA • Jackson County Mr. Steve Bates Hull, GA • Madison County

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Place oil and dry ingredients in a one-gallon bag.

Mix well; add all sleeves of crackers into bag. Seal, rotate bag often, then let them set overnight or all day. You can adjust amount of spices. Enjoy.

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Gently mix. You can always add more Joy or water if needed. Be gentle handling the mixture so suds don’t form. Fashion a wand from an old wire coat hanger or use a store-bought wand.

“We double or triple this recipe and pour in pie pans and use with large bubble wands that my Daddy made.

We have such a fun time.”

-B arbara Gooch , Corporate Reception , @ Jackson EMC 30 years

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Mr. Clay McDaniel Bethlehem, GA • Barrow County

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$3,600 to Barrow Ministry Village, a community ministry established through a partnership of local churches which provides foster care support, counseling services and food to those in need, to fund a monthly mobile distribution of about 10,000 pounds of food to about 220 people.

$5,000 to the Side by Side Brain Injury Club, a Gwinnett nonprofit organization that helps individuals recovering from traumatic brain injury to regain employment and living skills, to provide a month of rehabilitation program fees for six brain-injured adults from Gwinnett and Hall counties.

Mrs. Howard McClure, Jr. Maysville, GA • Banks County

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but exceptional students with exemplary artistic skills entering 1st through 8th grades at Title I schools in Banks, Hall, Jackson, Gwinnett and Lumpkin counties attend one-week Art Camp sessions.

The duly constituted nominating committee for 2015 consists of the following members:

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1000 Dawsonville Highway Gainesville, GA (770) 536-2415 85 Spratlin Mill Road Hull, GA (706) 548-5362 850 Commerce Road Jefferson, GA (706) 367-5281 461 Swanson Drive Lawrenceville, GA (770) 963-6166 EMC Security 55 Satellite Blvd., NW Suwanee, GA (770) 963-0305 or (706) 543-4009

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Jackson EMC has the following equipment for sale to members and employees.

Sealed bids will be accepted at Jackson EMC headquarters in Jefferson until 3 p.m., August 28, 2015, after which time bids will no longer be accepted. Jackson EMC reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids.

These vehicles are being sold in “as is” condition with no written warranties.

Vehicles may be viewed at the Jackson EMC office in Jefferson, located at 850 Commerce Highway, on Tuesday, August 18, and Thursday, August 20, between the hours of 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Come by at these dates and times ONLY to view the equipment.

The list below contains the types and approximate quantities of the equipment and vehicles to be sold. All equipment and vehicles are retired from Jackson EMC’s fleet and are generally five years or older with odometer readings above 100,000 miles. This list is subject to changes, additions and/or deletions. Standard bid sheets and a complete vehicle list will be provided in our main lobby on viewing dates.

11 Full-Size Pickups (1/2 T and 3/4 T)

1 SUV

9 Mid-Size Pickups

1 55' Bucket Truck

5 Mid-Size Sedans (1 Hybrid)

1 Panel Truck

3 Service Bucket Trucks

1 Enclosed Trailer

2 Derrick Trucks

1 Backup Generator – White engine, 55 kW (propane)

1 Knuckleboom Truck

1 Mini Van

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