November 2020 • Ohio Cooperative Living 19 Want to Make a Difference in Your Community?
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HOLMES-WAYNE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE LOCAL PAGES MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT/CEO Energy efficiency at home t’s been a long 2020 for everyone, and as we close the the average American household $100 per year according year, we look ahead to the holidays and winter months. to the U.S. Environmental IMany are spending more time at home, and it would Protection Agency. Children be an excellent opportunity to make your home more can also assist with replacing energy efficient this winter. This project can be a fun incandescent and/or CFL bulbs adventure for the entire family and well worth your time with LED bulbs. when savings add up throughout the entire year. Don’t forget to adjust your Caulk, weatherstripping, and insulation help seal gaps, thermostat when you leave the keeping heated air in. Heating and cooling your home house. Also make sure you aren’t is 55 to 60% of your home energy cost. Attic insulation dressed for summer in your should be of R38 to R49 for cold Ohio winters. house during the winter. Each reduction on your thermostat by Glenn W. Miller Don’t forget to check the “over and under.” One of your one degree can cut heating costs PRESIDENT/CEO best bets for saving is a full ductwork inspection under by as much as 5%. floors and over ceilings. Collapsed connections, tears, animal damage, and register gaps can leak conditioned Finally, heating water accounts for 12% of the average air into unused spaces. home’s energy use. Set your water heater’s thermostat to 120 degrees or lower. Keeping that extra fridge in the garage or basement? If it’s older than 15 years, you are consuming 40% more Minor changes like these can create major savings on energy than today’s ENERGY STAR refrigerators. your energy bill. As always, if you have any questions Refrigeration alone can be 5% of your energy bill! regarding your electric consumption or energy efficiency tips, you can contact us directly, visit our website at Younger children can be energy efficiency superheroes hwecoop.com, or follow us on Facebook. You can also by making sure lights are turned off in empty rooms and reach out to schedule a home energy assessment with electronics like gaming consoles and TVs have been turned our energy advisor. We are always here to help you. off. Everyone can join in by unplugging phone chargers that aren’t in use. Phantom loads like these are costing NOVEMBER 2020 • OHIO COOPERATIVE LIVING 19 WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY? Your co-op is seeking trustee nominees and volunteers to serve on the nominating committee As a member of Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative, you are an owner of your electric District 7 — cooperative. You have an opportunity every June to Jackson Township, express your ownership interest by exercising the Ashland County, cooperative principal of “one member, one vote” and Congress during the annual trustee election. Township, Wayne County. The HWEC nine-member board of trustees is the governing body of your cooperative. The board meets monthly to review and renew policies, make business decisions concerning the cooperative, review financial performance, establish rates, and approve all patronage capital credits payments. At the November board meeting, trustees at Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative will appoint a nominating committee, which will be responsible for selecting candidates for the 2021 Holmes-Wayne Electric Board of Trustees election. The nine-member committee consists of one member who resides in each of the nine districts. The nominating committee will meet in early 2021 at the cooperative office to select nominees for trustees from District 1, District 3, and District 7. The committee selects qualified candidates based on District 1 — Paint and Walnut members’ applications. Creek townships, Holmes County; Paint Township, Wayne If you are interested in participating in the County; Sugar Creek Township, nominating committee or running for trustee, please Stark County; and Wayne contact HWEC’s Shay Lynch at 866-674-1055 to receive Township, Tuscarawas County. more information. District 3 — Hanover, Lake, Mohican, and Perry townships, Ashland County; Ripley and Washington townships, Holmes County; and Clinton Township, Wayne County. 20 OHIO COOPERATIVE LIVING • NOVEMBER 2020 YOU CAN REPORT YOUR OUTAGE VIA TEXT 55050 WITH THE WORD “OUTAGE” You can now report your power outage via TEXT! Outage texting is simple and fast! Text your outage to 3. If you have more than one account, you can name each 55050. You can put any valuable information in your text account to report specific outages. like “tree on line” or “broken pole,” for example. You will Example: receive a confirmation text of the outage report. Account 123456 – House Account 78910 – Barn Key features: When you have more than one account and text an outage, 1. You must have your cellphone number associated with you will receive a reply text asking which accounts are out your account. or you can select all accounts. 2. You can add more than one cellphone number to your As always you can still report outage via our toll-free account. You can easily add cellphone numbers through number, 866-674-1055, and our mobile app, SmartHub, if our website, www.hwecoop.com, or by calling us. you prefer. NOVEMBER 2020 • OHIO COOPERATIVE LIVING 20A HOLMES-WAYNE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE LOCAL PAGES Unclaimed capital credits In 2016, Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative, Inc. mailed a general retirement of capital credits. Many checks were returned to us as undeliverable and, to date, these refunds remain unclaimed. Per the cooperative’s Code of Regulations, the unclaimed capital credits are reallocated to current cooperative members four years following the original mailing and following two consecutive notices in this publication. This is the second notice. Anyone with information on these members or their heirs whose name and last known residence is listed is asked to contact the cooperative office toll-free at 866-674-1055. Contact must be made by Jan. 1, 2021, 60 days following the last date of the publication of this notice. 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