2021 WINNERS

Category 1 – Best News Story (at-large category) Silver Arrowhead Cooperative* Gold The Highline By Line Montana Electric Cooperatives’ Association Arrowhead Cooperative Mental Health Resources Available to Farmers smcmanus@arrowhead.coop and Ranchers Ryan G. Hall Classification 2 [email protected] Gold Silver Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative Colorado Rural Electric Association NOEC’s NE Connection Protecting Vital Electric Lines When Wildfires Blaze Sarah Wilhelm Kylee Coleman [email protected] [email protected] Silver Category 2 – Best Feature Story (at-large category) Kauai Island Utility Cooperative KIUC Currents Gold Kauai Island Utility Cooperative Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association [email protected] of Electric Cooperatives On the Outside, Looking In Classification 3 Steven Johnson [email protected] Gold United Cooperative Services Silver PowerTalk United Cooperative Services Minnkota Power Cooperative [email protected] Dinos, Drive-ins and Democracy Kaylee Cusack [email protected] Silver Sam Houston Electric Cooperative Category 3 – Best Column (at-large category) Sam Houston EC Local Pages Rachel Frey Gold [email protected] Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives Classification 4 Viewpoint - A Master Storyteller Richard Johnstone Gold [email protected] SLEMCO SLEMCO Power Silver Mary Laurent [email protected] Montana Electric Cooperatives’ Association What’s in a Name? Ryan G. Hall Silver [email protected] CoServ CoServ pages of Texas Co-op Power Magazine Category 4 – Best External News Publication Oscar Martinez [email protected] Classification 1 Gold Dakota Valley Electric Cooperative Dakota Valley News Dakota Valley Electric Cooperative [email protected] Classification 5 Silver Gold Rappahannock Electric Cooperative REC Powerlines – March, July and August issues Texas Electric Cooperatives Rappahannock Electric Cooperative Texas Co-op Power Magazine [email protected] Charles Lohrmann [email protected] Classification 5 Silver Gold Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives Texas Electric Cooperatives Oklahoma Living Magazine TEC Report Oklahoma Living Magazine Chris Burrows, Texas Electric Cooperatives [email protected] [email protected]

Category 5 – Best Internal News Publication Silver Classification 1 Texas Electric Cooperatives Safety Watch Gold Tom Widlowski, Texas Electric Cooperatives Umatilla Electric Cooperative [email protected] “The Current” Employee Newsletter Jodie Thomas Category 6A Best Special Publication – Small [email protected] Classification 1 Classification 2 Silver Gold Southern Rivers Energy New Member Welcome Guide Aiken Electric Cooperative Kathryn Green WATTS On Line [email protected] Aiken Electric Cooperative [email protected] Classification 2 Silver Gold Appalachian Electric Cooperative Prairie Land Electric Cooperative, Inc.* The Hotline PLEC Benefits Flyer Becky Burks Deborah K. Anderson [email protected] [email protected]

Classification 3 Silver Gold Kauai Island Utility Cooperative Anahola Service Center Singing River Electric Cooperative Shelley Paik Singing River Electric’s Online Newsletter [email protected] Lorri Freeman and Amanda Parker [email protected] Classification 3 Silver Gold Oklahoma Electric Cooperative Sam Houston Electric Cooperative OEC Quarterly Plug Board Election Ballot Booklet Brianna Wall Rachel Frey [email protected] [email protected]

Classification 4 Classification 4 Gold Gold Flint Energies United Power Three Phase Tri-State Newsletter Insert Flint Energies Zach Kinder [email protected] [email protected] Silver Classification 4 CoServ Gold SmartHub: New Year. New Bill. New Account Number Phyllis Thomas Delaware Electric Cooperative [email protected] Delaware Living 2020 Jeremy Tucker Classification 5 [email protected] Gold Silver Indiana Electric Cooperatives Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative Parts of a Bucket Truck Infographic Biomass Booklet Stacey Holton Leslie Khamsivone [email protected] [email protected]

Silver Classification 5 Dairyland Power Cooperative Gold Dairyland Power Cooperative’s 2019/2020 Sustainability Report Georgia System Operations Corporation Catherine Thomson Family of Companies Brochure [email protected] Beth Coffey [email protected] Category 6B Best Special Publication – Large Silver Classification 1 Northwest Public Power Association Silver NWPPA: Who We Are Brochure Brenda Dunn Southern Rivers Energy [email protected] Social Media Playbook Kathryn Green Category 7 – Best Annual Report to Members [email protected] Classification 1 Classification 2 Gold Gold Garkane Energy Northeastern REMC* Purposeful Planning + Disciplined Planning COVID-19 Response Internal/External - = Financial Strength Northeastern REMC Garkane Energy Christy Phend & Chris Todd [email protected] [email protected] Silver Silver SEMO Electric Cooperative Delta-Montrose Electric Association 2020 Annual Report DMEA Member Handbook Team SEMO Laura Sanders [email protected] [email protected] Classification 2 Classification 3 Gold Silver Delta-Montrose Electric Association Oklahoma Electric Cooperative 2019 DMEA Annual Report Get Charged! Elementary STEAM Education Laura Sanders Tory Tedder-Loffland [email protected] [email protected] Silver MiEnergy Cooperative Driving Change 2019 Annual Report MiEnergy Cooperative [email protected] Classification 3 Silver Gold Tricounty Rural Electric Cooperative Who Are We? Meet Your Community Co-op East Central Energy Tricounty REC 2019 ECE Annual Report: Energy to Keep [email protected] You Moving Jenny Long Classification 2 [email protected] Gold Silver Northeastern REMC* Baldwin EMC Director Candidate Training Baldwin EMC’s 2019 Annual Report Tennille Merkle, Chris Todd Baldwin EMC [email protected] [email protected] Silver (tie) Classification 4 Four County Electric Gold Co-ops Vote Video Four County EMC United Power [email protected] Charging Forward - 2019 Annual Report United Power Communications Team Wake Electric Membership Corporation [email protected] Wake Electric’s New Website Rachael Benedict Silver [email protected] Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative NOVEC 2020 Annual Report Classification 3 Leslie Khamsivone & Priscilla Knight [email protected] Gold (tie) Flathead Electric Classification 5 Plan Before You Plant Flathead Electric Gold [email protected] Northeast Missouri Electric Power Cooperative Year in Review GVEC Alicia Doran GVEC Unplugged Podcast [email protected] GVEC [email protected] Silver East Kentucky Power Cooperative Silver (tie) East Kentucky Power Cooperative Annual Report: South Plains Electric Cooperative Preparation. Strength. Resilience Youth Tour Spotlight Series Member Services South Plains Electric Cooperative [email protected] [email protected]

Category 8. Most Innovative Use Ozarks Electric Cooperative of Digital Communication Thank You Ozarks Electric Cooperative Classification 1 [email protected] Gold Classification 4 Firelands Electric Cooperative, Inc. 2020 Lineman Appreciation Week videos Gold Tracy Gibb Pedernales Electric Cooperative [email protected] Welcome to the Cooperative Christopher J. Martinez [email protected] Silver Classification 3 CoServ Gold As A Meter Of Fact Oscar Martinez Farmers EC [email protected] Teleworking Jim Nimmo Classification 5 [email protected] Gold Silver Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives Farmers EC OAEC Website Farmers HR Insurance Plan Options Recap Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives Jim Nimmo [email protected] [email protected]

Silver Classification 4 Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives Co-op Impact Videos Gold Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives United Power [email protected] Finance Video, Annual Meeting United Power Communications Team Category 9. Best Use of Social Media [email protected] (at-large category) Silver Gold Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative “Spirit Alyssa’s Energy Tip Tuesday of SVEC” Video Alyssa Dussetschleger Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative [email protected] [email protected]

Silver Classification 5 GreyStone Power Tropical Storm Zeta: Social media response Gold Amanda Busby Sho-Me Power Electric Cooperative [email protected] We Work for You Sho-Me Power Electric Cooperative Category 10. Best Digital Storytelling [email protected] Classification 1 Silver Gold East River Electric Power Cooperative Powering Your Safety Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative East River Electric Power Cooperative Hope Isn’t Cancelled [email protected] Samantha Kuhn [email protected] Category 11. Best Photo (at-large category) Silver Gold Riverland Energy Cooperative SLEMCO License to Live Safety Video Picking Up The Pieces - A Lineman’s Point of View Ben Bella Jonathan Hebert - Lineman Class A [email protected] [email protected]

Classification 2 Silver (tie) Silver Flathead Electric White River Valley Electric Cooperative Sunset in the Flathead Valley Proposed 2020 Bylaw Amendments Sharilyn Fairweather White River Valley Electric [email protected] [email protected] Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative Classification 4 Clean Up Don Johnson Gold (tie) [email protected] Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative 2020 Bluebonnet Wall Calendar: Standing Proud / Category 12 – Best Wild Card Courthouses of Central Texas Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Classification 1 [email protected]

Gold CoServ Grand Valley Power 2020 Calendar: CoServ Critters Pine Gulch Fire Response Oscar Martinez Dana Pogar [email protected] [email protected] Silver Silver Pedernales Electric Cooperative Southern Rivers Energy PEC’s Butterfly Way Station Virtual Prayer Chain Ruth Verette Kathryn Green [email protected] [email protected] Classification 5 Classification 2 Gold Gold East Kentucky Power Cooperative Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation COVID-19 Response Co-op Cooks Member Services Rachael Benedict [email protected] [email protected] Silver Silver Montana Electric Cooperatives’ Association TCEC Annual Meeting Invite Postcard 75th Anniversary Commemorative Gift Set Ryan G. Hall TCEC [email protected] [email protected] Category 13. Best Graphic Design Classification 3 Classification 1 Gold Silver Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative Annual Meeting/Election Magazine Dustcover South Alabama Electric Don Johnson Cooperation Among Cooperatives [email protected] Andy Kimbro [email protected] Silver (tie) Classification 2 Coweta-Fayette EMC EMC Socks Gold Coweta-Fayette EMC Communication Department Northcentral Electric Cooperative [email protected] Chevy Bolt Wrap Justin Jaggers Mountain View Electric Association, Inc. [email protected] Bathroom Blog Megan Morse [email protected] Silver Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative NOEC & Subsidiary Brand Manual Sarah Wilhelm [email protected] Classification 3 Classification 2 Gold Gold Carroll EMC San Isabel Electric Association Merry Christmas from Carroll EMC Don’t Get Left In the Dark Brittany Shadix Paris Elliot [email protected] [email protected]

Silver Classification 3 Holy Cross Energy Gold PureServe Your Lifestyle Anna Johnson GVEC [email protected] Branded Streaming Commercials GVEC Classification 4 [email protected] Gold Silver Cobb EMC Holy Cross Energy EV Experience Reflect During the Peak Brooke Melton Anna Johnson [email protected] [email protected]

Silver Classification 4 Pedernales Electric Cooperative Gold Unmanned Aerial System Brings Reliability to New Heights Pedernales Electric Cooperative Rachelle Baker, John Larsen Friday Night Fever [email protected] John Larsen, Ruth Verette, Elizabeth Rozyskie, Marjorie Smith Classification 5 [email protected] Gold Silver Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives Rappahannock Electric Cooperative Bicycles built for you We’re All In This Together Anita Cook Rappahannock Electric Cooperative [email protected] [email protected]

Silver Classification 5 Kentucky Electric Cooperatives 2020 Photo Calendar Gold Jessica Hawkins Minnkota Power Cooperative [email protected] All In On All-of-the-Above Energy Minnkota Power Cooperative Category 14 – Best Individual Ad [email protected] Classification 1 Silver Gold Kentucky Electric Cooperatives Travel Giveaway Houseboat Rental Grand Valley Power Katy Hurt Cooperative Youth Tour Ad [email protected] Dana Pogar [email protected] Category 15 – Best Event Central Iowa Cooperative Momentum is Building - Efficiency is Coming Classification 1 Touchstone Cooperatives of Iowa Gold [email protected] Grand Valley Power Category 16 – Best Total Communication Glow Halloween Grand Valley Power Program [email protected] Classification 2 Silver Gold Tricounty Rural Electric Cooperative* Dixie Electric Power Association Drive-In Annual Meeting Movie Night Dixie Electric Crisis Communication Tricounty Rural Electric Cooperative - 4 Tornadoes; 1 Pandemic [email protected] Lydia Walters [email protected] Classification 2 Classification 3 Gold Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative Gold 2020 Annual Meeting Event Sam Houston Electric Cooperative Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative Employee Communication During COVID-19 [email protected] Sam Houston EC Communications Department [email protected] Silver Stearns Electric Association* Silver (tie) Donut Dash CHELCO Whitney Ditlevson We’re in This Together [email protected] Bonnie Whitfield, Emily Cowan and Tyler Wood [email protected] Classification 4 Palmetto Electric Cooperative Gold Give 5 GreyStone Power Corporation Palmetto Electric Cooperative Beam Signing Barbecue [email protected] Erin Harper, Brandon Knight [email protected] Classification 4 Gold Silver CoServ CoServ CoServ SmartHub High School Graduations at Texas Motor Speedway CoServ Communications Team Oscar Martinez [email protected] [email protected] Silver Classification 5 Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Gold No Turning Back The Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Virtual Youth Experience [email protected] Van O’Cain [email protected]

Silver (tie) Cooperative Energy 20/20 Experience: Cooperative Energy’s Virtual All-Employee Meeting Cooperative Energy Corporate Communications [email protected] Classification 5 Gold The Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina Virtual Youth Experience Van O’Cain [email protected]

Silver PowerSouth Energy Cooperative Let’s Power Savings: 2020 Digital Marketing Pilot Campaign Christi Scruggs [email protected]

* Asterisk denotes a first-time entrant 4.27.21