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Changing Lives ‘Forever’

Changing Lives ‘Forever’

Tim Wright and Luke Swanson were SVEC’s representatives who spent more than two weeks with a Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives’ group in Guatemala.

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Too Attached?

Too Attached?

As internet services expand, co-op poles take on greater responsibility by Preston Knight, Communication Manager Call it a midspan crisis. As life changing as the advent and growth of rural electric lines and poles were in the 1930s, the ensuing decades would reveal...

Utility Poles Are Not Bulletin Boards

Utility Poles Are Not Bulletin Boards

What many do not realize is the danger it poses for lineworkers. Yard sale signs, event signs, party signs and holiday decorations, you name it, andSVEC has seen it. Once the sign is removed or blows away with the wind, the fastener remains intact. Something as small...

Provide a ‘Helping Hand’ with the Gift of Light

Provide a ‘Helping Hand’ with the Gift of Light

by Preston Knight, Communication Manager It's the holiday question Debora Menefee asked herself and then answered several years ago. What do you get parents who have everything? Electricity, Menefee says. Specifically, a gift certificate for it through SVEC. “They...

Model Member: Nurse Takes Flight

Model Member: Nurse Takes Flight

by Lydia Weaver, Community Relations Specialist From the ripe old age of 12, McGoff knew she wanted to be a nurse. The first time she remembers her grandmother being admitted to the hospital, McGoff was too young to be allowed visitation in the room. At age 14, when...