Schools Celebrate Earth Day with Blue Ridge Electric
For Immediate Release
Contact: Renee Whitener, Director of Corporate Communications, Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation, (828) 758-2383 ext. 3213; Pager:1-800-471-1323;
or E-mail: Renee Whitener
Lenoir, North Carolina (April 27, 2004) – 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 on April 22 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 the elementary school principals.
This year the book selected for Earth Day was “Hoot” by Carl Hiaasen, a Newberry Honor award winner. The author of many best-selling novels for adults, Hiaasen’s first novel for young readers centers on owls and is full of wit and information about the state of Florida, a setting for many of his books since his father gave him a typewriter at age six. Hiaasen currently writes columns for the Miami Herald.
Blue Ridge Electric is a not-for-profit, member-owned cooperative utility serving some 67,000 consumers in Caldwell, Watauga, Ashe, Alleghany and Wilkes counties. Its subsidiary, Blue Ridge Energies, provides propane and heating fuels as well as gas fireplaces, logs, heaters, and stoves from offices in Lenoir, Boone, West Jefferson and Hickory.
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