Co-opConnection Looking forward to your Annual Meeting WE l arE OOKiNG FOr YOU at our Annual manage your energy use through 254 Hwy 15-401 Bypass East Meeting on Saturday, April 16, at energy-efficiency education and P.O. Box 1057 Marlboro County High School, where programs. Bennettsville, SC 29512 you will see how we’re looking We offer the Touchstone Energy General Information out for you. Cooperative website, TogetherWeSave. (843) 479-3855 Now, more than ever, we com. Whether you are sealing your (800) 922-9174 need to work together to keep air ducts, replacing old appliances, or www.marlboroelectric.coop your electric bills affordable. improving your home’s insulation, it is Office Hours Last year, Congress did not amazing how little changes can bring 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. pass a comprehensive climate savings on your electric bill. Monday–Friday bill. This January, the U.S. New technology also helps keep Environmental Protection your electric bills affordable and President/CEO SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2011 William L. Fleming Agency began regulating greenhouse reduces environmental impact. Our gasses—an action made by a 2007 investment in the advanced metering Chairman of the Board Supreme Court decision, followed infrastructure system allows us to Melvin Carabo by rulings allowing the EPA to use pinpoint outages, manage power, Board of Trustees the Clean Air Act to curb carbon improve service reliability and control th Eddie Gordon, District 1 emissions. daily operating costs. Marlboro Electric’s Annual Meeting! Raymond Woodle, District 2 70 Charles R. ‘Ricky’ Smith, District 3 Focused on affordability Focused on YOU We have a ‘seat’ waiting for you! Melvin Carabo, District 4 Chairman Stringent controls and policies on We continue to put our members John Alford, District 5 power plant emissions and state first, and represent your best interest. Marlboro Electric is celebrating 70 years of service! Each co-op member registered Sam P. McInnis, District 6 renewable energy requirements could Costs are rising for all of us, and and present at Marlboro Electric’s 70th Annual Meeting will receive a red fold-out Jeff Quick, District 7 lead to higher costs. Government our electric rates cover the cost of stadium chair and two compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. Registered and present W. Ronald Quick, District 8 regulations will increase the cost of doing business, not to generate profits Vice-Chairman doing business, but they won’t be the for stockholders. In 2010, I’m proud members will also be eligible for the Grand Prize, Semi-Grand Prizes and many Janelle Sauls, District 9 only ones. Prices for fuel, materials to report, we returned more than other prizes. Secretary/Treasurer When: Saturday, April 16, 2011 and equipment will continue to $190,000 to our members in capital Where: Marlboro County High School Attorney rise. Long-term, significant future credits. ENTERTAINMENT: Melody Aires Gospel Group Doug Jennings investments into the power system We are working together to Fayetteville Avenue Co-op News Editor will also be costly. keep your electric bill affordable by Bennettsville, South Carolina Christy J. Overstreet WIRE sponsored CONCESSIONS & BOOTHS Time: Registration 12 Noon until 2:00 Your Board of Trustees is controlling costs through innovation. e-mail: cjoverstreet@ committed to keeping you informed We continue to put our members first. marlboroelectric.coop about policy changes that will impact Whatever the future brings, it is HEALTH FAIR by Marlboro Park Hospital Mission Statement your electric bill through South certain: We are looking out for you. The aim of Marlboro Electric Carolina Living. See you at the Annual Meeting! BLOOD DRIVE by American Red Cross Cooperative, Inc. is to make electric energy available to its Focused on innovation by Snikkles and Lemonade members at the lowest cost Some things are out of our hands, FACE PAINTING CLOWNS consistent with sound economy but we look for ways to control costs Melvin Carabo and good management. through innovation. We can help you Chairman, Board of Trustees SEMI-GRAND PRIZES: Refrigerator, washer & dryer, stove and television Co-op observes Good Friday Marlboro Electric will be closed on Friday, April 22, in observance of Good Friday. Emergency crews will be on standby. GRAND PRIZE: 2006 Ford 150 truck 4 SOUTHAROLINA C LIVING | april 2011 | SCLIVING.COOp SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2011 th Marlboro Electric’s 70 Annual Meeting! We have a ‘seat’ waiting for you! Marlboro Electric is celebrating 70 years of service! Each co-op member registered and present at Marlboro Electric’s 70th Annual Meeting will receive a red fold-out stadium chair and two compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. Registered and present members will also be eligible for the Grand Prize, Semi-Grand Prizes and many other prizes. When: Saturday, April 16, 2011 Where: Marlboro County High School ENTERTAINMENT: Melody Aires Gospel Group Fayetteville Avenue Bennettsville, South Carolina WIRE sponsored CONCESSIONS & BOOTHS Time: Registration 12 Noon until 2:00 HEALTH FAIR by Marlboro Park Hospital BLOOD DRIVE by American Red Cross FACE PAINTING CLOWNS by Snikkles and Lemonade SEMI-GRAND PRIZES: Refrigerator, washer & dryer, stove and television GRAND PRIZE: 2006 Ford 150 truck SCLIVING.COOp | april 2011 | SOUTH CAROLINA LIVING 5 News Extra Support WIRE, touch lives Each YEar, WIRE sells items and hosts the concessions at the Annual The local WIRE chapter donated school supplies in January for 4th- Meeting to raise funds to donate grade teachers and students in Marlboro County. The donation during to needy causes in the community. this time of year will help needy students and teachers finish out the Local WIRE ladies work hard to latter part of the school year when resources become scarce. WIRE members Rosa Leviner and Mary Baker delivered school supplies to spread their love, concern and caring Wallace Elementary and Willa Johnson delivered school supplies to for which rural citizens are known. Bennettsville Elementary, top left. In their efforts of working for better communities, WIRE continues to touch the lives of many people. WIRE offers $2,500 scholarship for women WIRE is a non-profit community Applications are being taken accredited S.C. college or outreach organization that encourages for a $2,500 scholarship for university, and women awarded annually by interest in electric programs and f demonstrate financial works to improve the quality of life WIRE, a community service need. organization affiliated with in rural areas. Membership is open to electric co-ops in South Women who have all women who are co-op members, Carolina, including Marlboro previously obtained a four- trustees, retirees and employees or Electric Cooperative. year college degree are not the spouses of members, trustees and The WIRE Opportunity eligible. Applicants may have employees. Scholarship is awarded to a previously earned a two- woman who may not have year degree or some college been able to attend college credits. The scholarship, when she graduated from which can be used for the fall high school but now wants to 2011 or spring 2012 semesters, further her education. WIRE will be paid jointly to the (Women Involved in Rural winner and her college of Electrification) awards the choice. scholarship based on financial Applications are available need and personal goals. at Marlboro Electric Cooperative. The deadline Applicants must: to apply is June 1. Mail or Emma Huckabee was honored as the 2010 f be a member of a South fax the application to WIRE WIRE Woman of the Year Carolina electric co-op Scholarship Committee, in recognition of her Attention: Christy CHRISTY f have graduated from high outstanding commitment, Overstreet, Marlboro Electric school or earned her GED service and dedication. Cooperative, Inc., P.O. Box O at least 10 years ago VERSTREET 1057, Bennettsville, SC 29512; f be accepted into an fax (843) 479-8990. SCLIVING.COOp | april 2011 | SOUTH CAROLINA LIVING 20A Katie Locklear with her September 1975 magazine. She’s been ‘Living’ 70 YEARS with our magazine OF SERVICE for decades! By WALTER ALLREAD S hE MaY liVE “at the end of the line”—just across the state line near Maxton, N.C.—but MEC member Katie WALTER LLREAD Locklear has always maintained a close A connection to her co-op through its member magazine. She’s held onto her back issues column. Locklear turned straight to it of Living in South Carolina since she “every time he came out!” she says. and her late husband, Winford, first “Country stuff,” she recalls. Good stuff. received co-op service back in the Having a son, she could relate to MARLBORO 1970s. Locklear recently found two Eleazer’s homespun tales. These days, ELECTRIC full issues, one from 1970 and another Winford Jr., and her daughters, Lisa COOPERATIVE from ’75, in a drawer. The precursor Oxendine and Vicky Harris, are all to South Carolina Living, the original MEC members. No doubt Lisa and Serving our members Living featured useful energy advice, Vicky, who live next door, appreciate since Sept. 3, 1940 just as it does today. those time-tested recipes from Living. But what Locklear and her family “We come over here and eat with literally ate up was found in the back her,” notes Lisa. of the book—“Cook’s Corner.” Like Even so, she can’t resist kidding many good country cooks, Locklear her mother: “Since my dad passed routinely clipped the tastiest articles: away, she got where she don’t cook. “I found a recipe I had pulled out of I’m gone have to divorce her!” one today,” she notes. We all share a good laugh. No She also regularly devoured “Boys doubt J.M. Eleazer would have Are That Way,” the late J.M. Eleazer’s laughed, too. What’s old is new online Read a popular column from 1975 and some vintage Co-op News Log onto MarlboroElectric.Coop this month to read an old favorite of Katie Locklear and thousands of other readers—J.M.