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Paulding Putnam members, thank you for the sincere welcome to the community.
It’s a privilege to be a part of the PPEC team that strives to serve you in the many ways we live the Cooperative values and principles. In the culture of PPEC, we know and believe what we do daily is vital to all our lives. We work in an extraordinary industry. Our careers allow us to work for our neighbors, friends, and family.
RANDY PRICE PRESIDENT AND CEO
industry has been — and will continue to be — critical to our business success and quality of life. At PPEC, we recognize the changes to the energy industry and are engaged on your behalf. Our legislators create laws and regulations that impact changes to the energy we invest in and consume. Count on us to be your advocate at the state and national level so leaders know you, and how we together make our community more special with reliable and affordable power.
From the boardroom to the front-line employees, we focus on serving our member-owners. The strategic goals and priorities keep us fixed on providing the highest reliability and stable rates.
The PPEC team thanks you for the opportunity to serve.
We all recognize that there are vital and essential services in communities. The electrical energy
The PPEC team has worked and will continue to work and live life with integrity. At the core, we want to reflect our community’s best qualities. As members and a community, you have created and cultivated an organization that is focused on the future.
PPEC is optimistic about the future. We see the challenges as learning opportunities and technological advancements enhancing how we serve you. Your electric co-op is learning daily, adapting as we learn, and seeking progress, and we’re doing all this focused on you.
Members of Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative recently donated $13,152 to 16 local charities and community projects through the cooperative’s Operation Round Up program.
About 80% of PPEC members round up their electric bills and donate those pennies to this fund, making a huge impact in the co-op’s northwest Ohio and northeast Indiana communities.
Participating members round up their monthly electric bills to the next dollar, with the extra pennies being used to help fund charities and groups in their communities. Each quarter, the funds are dispensed to local causes that applied for funding.
Organizations can apply for Operation Round Up by visiting www.ppec.coop/operation-round or by contacting us at 800
If you want to participate by rounding up your monthly bill, call PPEC’s office at 800-686-2357. The average member’s donation is about $6 per year.
• Caring and Sharing Food Pantry: $950 to purchase shelving units for their new building.
• Crane Township Cecil Fire Department: $750 to purchase piercing nozzle with the deluxe kit.
• Defiance Soil & Water Conservation District: $625 to help fund a 3-day workshop/training for teachers, along with tools and materials for classroom use.
• Fort Jennings Volunteer Fire Department: $1,000 to purchase a skid unit for field fires.
• Friends of the Paulding County Parks: $700 to rent port-a-johns for three parks over the summer.
• Grover Hill Firefighters Inc.: $800 to purchase two Scene Lighting Towers and batteries.
• Hands of Hope Pregnancy Services: $1,000 to cover the cost of yearly subscriptions for pregnancy, parenting, and birth classes for clients.
• Middle Point Volunteer FD: $1,000 to purchase a MARCS radio for the department.
• POE Fire Department: $600 to purchase an AED trainer unit.
• Ottawa Volunteer Fire Department: $1,222 to purchase one Supervac battery-operated positive pressure fan.
• Paulding County Amateur Radio Club: $500 to install communications equipment in the new emergency operations center.
• Paulding County Relay for Life — American Cancer Society: $1000 to help cover the cost of the meal served to survivors and caregivers.
• Payne Volunteer Fire Department: $1,005 to purchase updated coverage hoods and fire gloves.
• Van Wert Area Performing Arts Foundation (Van Wert Live): $500 to provide free tickets for people with low to moderate income.
• Van Wert Middle School: $1,000 to fund scholarships for students to experience Washington, D.C., or D.C. at Home Week.
• Wayne Trace Local Schools — Payne and Grover Hill elementary schools: $500 to create a sensory/ calm down room at both schools.
Yard sale signs, basketball hoops, deer stands, satellite dishes, lights, and birdhouses. Yes, electric cooperative line workers find all these items and more on utility poles. Not only is this dangerous, but it is also life-threatening to the professionals who maintain our electricity, and to those posting the items. For your safety and the safety of those who keep the power flowing, please do not post these items on power poles.
The clamped safety boots lineworkers use to climb poles are vulnerable to becoming snagged on staples and nails embedded in posts. Foreign objects can also tear utility workers’ protective clothing, which is the first line of protection from an electric shock in the event of an accident. They can also injure workers despite the safety gear they wear to avoid contact with rough surfaces.
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Safety risk for those posting on utility poles
Anyone posting items on utility poles also is at risk of exposure to thousands of volts of electricity pulsing overhead. Always stay at least 10 feet away from utility lines. Unauthorized pole attachments also violate the National Electrical Safety Code.
How you can help keep everyone safe
Please do your part to help cooperative line workers stay safe. Do not attach anything on utility poles and report it if you see tree stands, any hunting apparatus, or other items that do not belong on utility poles.
It is also important to avoid tampering with or disrupting the guy wires that surround utility poles. Tell children not to play or swing on them, and maintain your distance when performing yard work. If you see the poles or guy wires are disrupted in some way, please call your local utility company immediately.
We know our poles appear to be a high-visibility place to post messages. But when you do that, you’re putting our workers at risk, and might even be breaking the law. So, again, please don’t.
