June 2020

The Black Edison. Such was the nickname bestowed upon Granville T. Woods, an African-American inventor who held more than 50 patents. Born in Columbus in 1856, he attended school only to age 10, leaving due to family poverty and the necessity of work.

Late this month, 17 volunteers from Ohio’s electric cooperatives will fly to Guatemala, take a two-hour ride up a very steep mountainside and spend 14 days helping to electrify the remote village of La Soledad. The project, undertaken through the auspices of the international program of the National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association (NRECA), has had monetary and material support from all 24 of Ohio’s electric cooperatives and from employees and other friends of the statewide network of electric cooperatives.

What happened in Vegas won’t stay in Vegas, not if it concerns CES® 2016, the world’s largest tradeshow for consumer electronic technology and the biggest U.S. trade show of any kind.

Held Jan. 6-9 in Las Vegas, the 49th CES — formerly known as the International Consumer Electronics Show — introduced innovative items and electronic technologies affecting most every walk of life, including many powered by the electricity your cooperative provides.

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We take much for granted in our daily lives. This includes continuous access to an essentially unlimited supply of electricity at a relatively affordable price. Electricity and other modern energy delivery systems provide us not only the benefits of our many gadgets and toys, but also the essentials of light, heat, refrigeration and, of course, time — time to work at our jobs, complete our chores and enjoy our lives.

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How’s this for a job description? A bit of Sherlock Holmes, plus number-cruncher, technology wizard, problem-solver, with a cheerful outlook and the ability to work well with others — that’s just a partial list of what it takes to become a co-op energy advisor.

All that expertise is just a phone call or mouse click away to get reliable, trustworthy answers to your energy questions.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. — Author Gail Sheehy

“Through the years, my husband and I did much traveling. Our grown children took us on many trips, also,” says Vera Peters of Hillsboro.

She isn’t finished.

“Now at the age of 94, on my bucket list before it’s too late, I want to take a hot air balloon ride,” the South Central Power customer says. “I’ve read that it is so enjoyable and so quiet that you can hear people on the ground talking.”

As a recipient of Country Living, you are almost certainly a member of an electric cooperative. But what does that mean, and how did that happen?

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