The Enlightener
May 2002
You’re Invited to the 2002
Annual Membership Meeting
Watauga High School Gymnasium, Boone, NC
Registration: 8-10 a.m.
- Registered members receive a collapsible
cooler and are eligible for door prizes.
Recognitions: 9:30 a.m.
- Recognition of scholarship and leadership
opportunity winners will take place in the gym.
Business Session: 10 a.m.
- Reports to the membership
- Director elections
Children’s Program: 9:30 - end of business session
- Magician Tommy Rash
- Face painting
- Games
- Prizes
- Balloon art
- Refreshments
Food: 8-10 a.m.
- Ham biscuits, coffee, doughnuts, soft drinks
Entertainment: 8-9:30 a.m.
- Appalachian Mountain Girls
- The Hayes Family
Exhibits: 8-10 a.m.
- Blue Ridge Energies, the cooperative’s subsidiary offering
propane and home heating appliances
- Touchstone Energy
- Carolina Country magazine
- ASU Summer Festival
- Information Booth
- Bank Draft, On Line Services
Prize Drawings
(Members must be registered to be eligible to win prizes.)
- Four $50 bills per district
Grand Prize (Must be present to win.)
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An Appalachian Summer Festival
Outdoor Fireworks Concert with Diamond Rio
Saturday, July 27
7:30 p.m.
Stadium opens at
6:30 p.m.
Tickets may be ordered from ASU by phone, FAX, mail, or at www.BlueRidgeEMC.com:
- For mail orders, send an order form (see note at the bottom of this section) with your check, money order, VISA or MasterCard number to:
Farthing Auditorium Box Office
Appalachian State University
PO Box 32057
Boone, North Carolina 28608-2057
Tickets will be held at the stadium box office and can be picked up on the day of the concert, or they can be mailed back if a self-addressed stamped envelope is included and received by July 12.
- For phone orders using your VISA or MasterCard, call toll free: 1-800-841-2787 or (828) 262-4046 in the Boone area. Hours: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., M-F.
Blue Ridge Electric customers - to receive your discount, have your electric account number ready.
- FAX you order form with your VISA or MasterCard number to: (828) 262-2848.
- To order tickets over the Internet, go to www.BlueRidgeEMC.com and click on “Diamond Rio Concert Tickets.”
Note: Order forms are available on the printed copy of the May Enlightener. If you do not receive your May edition please contact your local Blue Ridge Electric office. Copies of the order form cannot be accepted.
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Members Only News
-For Members of Blue Ridge Electric
Meet the Candidates
You have the opportunity to meet the candidates for your cooperative’s board of directors during “Meet the Candidates” forums being held in each district customer service office during the Member Advisory Committee (MAC) meetings in May. The forums will begin at 7 p.m. and will be held at the Blue Ridge Electric district offices on the following dates: Alleghany County, May 20; Ashe County, May 22; Caldwell County, May 28; and Watauga County, May 30.
Your Board of Directors
President
John Woodruff
Vice President
Kenneth Greene
Secretary-Treasurer
G. C. Norris
Assistant Secretary-Treasurer
Jeff Joines
Other Directors
Jackie Blackburn
Joy Coffey
Charles Edwards
Charity Gambill
Martha McKnight
Oren Teague
2002 Election
The following people were nominated by the Nominating Committee for member consideration for the Board of Directors:
• G. C. Norris
Boone (Watauga)
• Jackie Blackburn
West Jefferson (Ashe)
• Martha McKnight
Sparta (Alleghany)
• David Eggers
Patterson (Caldwell)
Nominated by petition:
• Tana Murray
Collettsville (Caldwell)
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The Perspective
An Editorial by Chief Executive Officer Doug Johnson
Come to the Annual Meeting June 8
One of the best ways we stay in touch with members is through your cooperative’s Annual Membership Meeting, which is held the second Saturday of June each year. On June 8, we’ll be hosting the annual meeting at Watauga High School. We hope you’ll join us for what we consider the most important meeting of the year as we update you on the operation of your cooperative.
As a member, one of your most significant opportunities occurs at the annual meeting. You have the opportunity to elect directors – representatives that help guide and direct your cooperative. The election is important because your board of directors can act as your voice to the cooperative and assist in meeting the needs of the membership as a whole.
The cooperative’s new president, John Woodruff, and I will give updates on the overall cooperative operation, including its heating fuels and commercial gasoline subsidiary, Blue Ridge Energies. We’ll report on Blue Ridge Electric’s performance in 2001, as well as special challenges we’re facing and ways your cooperative is preparing for the future.
Our annual meeting is also a chance to fellowship and have some fun. You can enjoy food, entertainment, and visit special information booths. In addition to other prizes, our grand prize giveaway is a refurbished Ford Explorer.
Look for more information about the annual meeting in your Annual Report and Annual Membership Meeting Notice mailed to members in late May. This booklet gives you details about the meeting as well as highlights from your cooperative’s activities in 2001.
One of my favorite parts of the annual meeting is talking with our members on a one-on-one basis prior to the business session. It not only gives me a good opportunity to hear what’s on your mind, it also reminds me of the special reason Blue Ridge Electric exists: to serve our friends and neighbors. So please join us on June 8 – I look forward to seeing you there!
If You Can't Attend . . .
If you are a member and are unable to at-tend the annual meeting, you may still vote for the Board of Directors by giving your proxy to another member who will be attending the meeting and can submit it for you that day. Your proxy is the perforated portion of the back cover of the Annual Report/Meeting Notice, which will be mailed to each member beginning in late May.
To comply with our bylaws, there are a few simple requirements for voting by proxy. First, your proxy must include the following information:
- Printed name of the member submitting your proxy, along with
their signature and address.
- Signature of a witness and the date it was signed (witness
cannot be the same member who is submitting your proxy).
Other guidelines regarding voting by proxy are:
- Members may vote one valid proxy in addition to their own
vote.
- Members representing a business, civic group, industry,
church, etc. may not vote the proxy of another member.
- Powers of attorney are treated as proxies.
- Only a member can carry a power of attorney.
- Blue Ridge Electric employees cannot vote proxies.
Copies of bylaws pertaining to proxies are available in district offices.
Published monthly by Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation for its 51,584 members.
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