A newsletter for and about Kansas Electric Cooperatives VOL. LXV, NO. 6 JUNE 26, 2015 INSIDE RuralKansas youth tour studentsPower visit legislators at U.S. Capitol 2 | Calendar Teaching 37 high school 3 |KEC sponsors FFA, students about 4-H statewide events electric coopera- tives, introducing 4 |New law creates them to govern- database to fi ght ment offi cials, and metal thefts helping to develop Please send any their leadership skills, were impor- story ideas to tant objectives of
[email protected]. the 55th annual Youth Tour to Washington, D.C., June 11-18. Th e t r i p , sponsored by Senator Jerry Moran and Senator Pat Roberts pose with the Kansas youth tour delegates inside Kansas’ electric the U.S. Capitol building on June 16. cooperatives, began in Topeka with several guest speakers at Once in Washington, D.C., the group the kick-off banquet. KEC’s BRUCE GRAHAM led visited with SENATORS JERRY MORAN and PAT the event and introduced BRANT LAUE, Chief ROBERTS, and CONGRESSMEN TIM HUELSKAMP Counsel for Gov. Sam Brownback, who attended and MIKE POMPEO, and CONGRESSWOMAN youth tour in 1978; STEVEN JOHNSON, Kansas LYNN JENKINS, allowing the students to learn House of Representatives District 108, who about the nation’s government. attended in 1983; and KYLE HOFFMAN, Kansas For many students, the meetings were House of Representatives District 116, who inspiring and motivated them to set leadership attended in 1989. goals. Before leaving Kansas, the students visited “Taking to our Kansas congressional Repre- Kaw Valley where they learned how electric sentatives and Senators inspired me to want to cooperatives work and rode in a bucket truck.