Schools Celebrate Earth Day with Blue Ridge Electric
For Immediate Release
Contact: Renee R. Whitener, Director of Public Relations, Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation, (828) 758-2383, Ext. 3213 (work) or Pager: 1-800-471-1323; rwhitener@blueridgeemc.com
Lenoir, North Carolina (May 2, 2005) –As part of the cooperative’s commitment to education and protecting the environment, Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation teamed up with local schools to help celebrate Earth Day recently by donating environmentally themed books to school libraries.
Each year, Blue Ridge Electric works with local media coordinators to select books that will capture their students’ attention and are academically appropriate. Blue Ridge employees then personally deliver the books to all elementary schools.
This year the book selected for Earth Day was “Just a Dream”, which was written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, a former Caldecott winner and author of “The Polar Express.” The book centers around Walter, a little boy who is a “litterbug” and has no concern for the environment until he has a life-changing dream about the future one night.
Blue Ridge Electric is a not-for-profit, member-owned cooperative utility serving some 68,000 consumers in Caldwell, Watauga, Ashe, Alleghany, Wilkes and Alexander counties.
