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 [email protected] 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? 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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. 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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