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East Central Energy celebrates 71 years of enhancing quality of life

More than 500 attend electric cooperative annual meeting at East Central Schools

Tusen Tack wins Touchstone Energy Community Award

East Central Energy(ECE) secured a $200,000 USDA Rural Development grant to help the Town of Summit, Wis.

East Central Energy rewards kids for energy efficiency essaysElectric co-op and KBEK radio announce winners of summer contest

ECE upgrades equipment to serve downtown growth

ECE Operation Round Up® grants $25,482 to charities

ECE Operation Round Up® grants $21,439 toward 11 service organization projects

ECE credits distribution equipment quality for minimized outages.

Systematic maintenance efforts and equipment upgrades kept power on
despite hot weather and increased demand.

ECE annual meeting celebrates "70 Years of Great service - guaranteed."

East Central Energy will invest $3.4 million is budgeted for right-of-way maintenance work in 2006. The program improves public safety and service reliability.

Petitions for nomination of director candidates were received from all East Central Energy director districts. Elections will be held in Districts 1,2, 4, 5, and 6. No election wiil be necessary in District 3 because there are only two nominees and ECE bylaws allow no write-in candidates.

East Central Energy's Operation Round Up Trust Board selected Li'l Farm Children's Home, Inc., a foster care facility at Cambridge, Minn. to receive the second annual ECE Touchstone Energy Community Award. Della and Bob Theis, Li'l Farm volunteers and donors accepted the award and ECE's donation of $250 during the co-op's December 2005 board meeting.

With a recently completed Habitat for Humanity home in the background.....

Two gifts in one-- holiday gift idea for a donation to help bring electricity to people in rural Haiti

Caring Members® program helps ECE members in need pay electric bills

Requests from seven community service groups funded

Member survey results show East Central Energy (ECE) continues to improve overall customer satisfaction and loyalty.

After years of holding the line, East Central Energy will increase rates in 2005. The ECE board recently approved new rates projected to increase revenue by 7.4 percent.

During its annual Trees and Utilities National Conference in April, the National Arbor Day Foundation named East Central Energy, a Tree Line USA utility. The award recognizes ECE for its quality tree care program, annual worker training in quality tree care practices and tree planting and public education programs.

An estimated 850 members and guests attended the 68th Annual Meeting of East Central Energy held Saturday, April 17 at the Braham High School. The event featured a pancake breakfast, informational displays, entertainment, prizes and the official business meeting of the cooperative.

East Central Energy will hold it's 69th annual membership meeting, Saturday, April 9 at East Central Schools near Banning Junction, east of Finlayson, Minn.

East Central Energy will sponsor three area high school juniors to participate in the 2004 Washington, DC Youth Tour this June. Nine applicants submitted essays and winners were selected from a field of five finalists who made oral presentations and interviewed with a three-judge panel.

RRIC Executive Director Teresa Nelson and Board Director Helen Olson accepted the award and a $250 donation during a meeting of ECE's Board of Directors.

East Central Energy urges more member-owners to join the multitude of people who voluntarily have their electric bills rounded up to the next highest dollar. Through Operation Round Up®, the extra pennies donated each month by customers added up to nearly $78,000 in 2004 contributions to worthwhile community services.

East Central Energy urges more member-owners to join the multitude of people who voluntarily have their electric bills rounded up to the next highest dollar. Through Operation Round Up®, the extra pennies donated each month by customers added up to nearly $78,000 in 2004 contributions to worthwhile community services.

After reviewing East Central Energy finances and determining that the cooperative is in sound fiscal condition, the Board of Directors has approved a capital credit retirement for consumers who have been members of the cooperative for more than one year.

East Central Energy (ECE) published a cookbook to use good recipes to promote good works. The energy cooperative will donate proceeds from sales of "Watt's Cookin'" to support a co-op in Haiti that's building electric infrastructure to serve more than 30,000 people.

If you can see the southern sky, you'll soon have access to high-speed Internet service—even in places where no service is available now.

East Central Energy garnered a Spotlight on Excellence Award at the National Rural Electric Association's 2004 Marketing and Communications Excellence Conference in Columbus, Ohio.

Six Minnesota electric cooperatives will again conduct a joint consumer education campaign this summer to help members save money on energy bills. The program called Wait ‘til 8 is cosponsored by Arrowhead Electric Cooperative, Cooperative Light & Power, Crow Wing Power, East Central Energy, Lake Country Power and Mille Lacs Electric Cooperative.

GreenTouch is a partnership between Minnesota's Touchstone Energy® cooperatives, the Minnesota State Park System and the Parks and Trails Council of Minnesota. This year, more than 1,600 volunteers donated nearly 6,000 hours to help prepare for the estimated 8.1 million visitors who use the parks each year.

East Central Energy will hold it's 68th annual membership meeting, Saturday, April 17 at the Braham High School in Braham, Minnesota. A pancake breakfast for ECE member-owners and guests begins at 7:30 a.m. and the business meeting convenes at 9:30 a.m.

David Thom, a lineman for East Central Energy, won second place honors in the Line Blazer Contest sponsored by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) and its Cooperative Research Network (CRN).

East Central Energy has budgeted $3 million for work this year as part of an ongoing program to clear and re-clear electric distribution line right-of-way.

After reviewing East Central Energy finances and determining that the cooperative is in sound fiscal condition, the Board of Directors has approved a capital credit retirement for consumers who have been members of the cooperative for more than one year.

In addition to overseeing customer service and administration, Thomas will now serve as second-in-command to President and CEO Garry Bye.

East Central Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are kicking off the 2003 Change a Light, Change the World campaign with rebates on energy-efficient light bulbs.

Making outstanding contributions to the local community