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Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation recently awarded $23,900 to local
charities through its Operation Round Up program.
Sawnee EMC donates to charities
By Rachel Pittman
intern@forsythnews.com
Sawnee Electric Membership
Foundation recently awarded $23,900 to
local charities through its Operation
Round Up program.
Out of the seven charities that are
recipients of this donation, one —the
Cumming Civitan Club — is located in
Forsyth County.
In additi~n to the grants for charities,
local school teachers may apply for
funds through the Foundation’s Bright
Ideas program, which is also a part of
Operation Round Up. Public and private
teachers are eligible to apply for fund
ing if their school is within the Sawnee
EMC service area.
These and other foundation programs
are made possible by thousands of
Sawnee EMC members who round up
their electric bills to the next highest
dollar amount each month. These mem
ber donations are then given back to the
communities that Sawnee EMC serves.
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for it to be charged with electricity.
There [was] a Georgia Power box that
|was] in the water,” Shivers said.
The man remained safe, though stuck,
inside and was able to work at his desk
while crews monitored the scene.
“We [had] telephone communication
with him and his family,” Shivers said.
By the time water flow was cut off at
3 p.m., the entire parking lot and build
ing was flooded with 12-18 inches of
red-clay water at its deepest point.
Shivers said the water receded enough
about 20 minutes after the water was cut
off for the man to leave the building
through a side door.
A tanker was brought to the area to
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store, but officials said a car without the
air running that is sitting in 95-degree
weather with the windows up for 20
minutes can reach 170 degrees on the
dashboard.
“There’s no specific law that governs
leaving a child or animal in a hot car,”
said Deputy Epifanio Rodriguez, a
spokesman for the Forsyth County
Sheriff’s Office.
Though there is no Georgia law that
makes it illegal to leave children and
animals in hot cars, doing so can result
in being charged with cruelty to children
or animals, Rodriguez said.
“In general, during the summer
months we do get our share of calls like
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The average donation each Sawnee
EMC member makes annually is $6.
Since the foundation’s inception in
2003, these donations have raised more
than $1.9 million, which has been
donated to local charities through
Operation Round Up, local schools
through the Bright Ideas project and
local young adults through the Sawnee
youth scholarship program.
Those interested in receiving dona
tions are required to submit an applica
tion to the foundation board for consid
eration and must be located in the
Sawnee EMC service area. Applicants
must also provide a service within the
community.
For more information on the Sawnee
EMC or Operation Round UP, contact
Sawnee EMC Director of External
Affairs Cindy Badgett at (678) 455-
1399 or cindy.badgett@sawnee.com.
supply water due to hydrants that were
cut off.
According to Crystal Ledford, a
spokeswoman for the city, contractors
doing grading work on the property
accidentally drug up the pipe while
working.
Ledford said eight employees from
the city’s utilities department were on
scene until about 12:30 a.m. “working
to get everything back to normal.”
They had to repair an elbow and other
broken parts of the pipe, she said.
There were “spotty outages” through
out the city’s service area due to a lack
of water pressure, Ledford said, until
about 10 p.m.
“That’s always our first concern,” she
said, “is to get water back to everybody
as quickly as possible when something
like that happens.”
that,” he said.
Only 22 states have statues that either
prohibit leaving animals in a confined
vehicle or provide protecting against
being sued for citizens who break into a
vehicle to rescue an animal, according
to the Animal Legal and Historical
Center at Michigan State University.
“An animal gets overheated more
quickly than an adult male or an adult
female does,” Rodriguez said.
A human’s pulse also increases when
left in a hot, confined vehicle, and they
can get physically sick, eventually caus
ing permanent injury or death.
“If [people] believe this person or this
animal is in immediate danger of receiv
ing injury or death, they have to make
that decision on whether to break into
the car,” Rodriguez said. “They should
always call 911 if they see something
like that.”
Vietnam Veterans of America
gives scholarships to graduates
| Kelly Whitmire
} kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
' Two recent Forsyth County high
school graduates received scholar
! ships named in honor of soldiers
' who died in the Vietnam War by a
' local veterans’ organization.
Rachel Priest and Ally Williams
were recently awarded the inaugu
ral scholarships from Cumming
Chapter 1030 of the Vietnam
Veterans of America.
“We wanted to initiate the schol
arship program to ... reward
deserving high school seniors who
are the children, grandchildren or
great-grandchildren of U.S. military
veterans,” said Gary Ely, chapter
president, in a news release. “We
also wanted to use the scholarships
as a vehicle to honor the memory of
those who made the ultimate sacri
fice during the Vietnam War.”
Priest’s award was named for
Spec. 4th Class Harvie R. Fradie,
who was killed in the Quang Tri
Province in South Vietnam in
January 1970, and Williams’ was in
memory of Sgt. Ist Class Billy
Charles, who was killed in February
1967 in Tay Ninh Province, South
Vietnam.
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The two were
selected from dozens
of applicants, and
the scholarships took
community and
school involvement
into consideration.
Applicants also
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phrase, “Why free
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Williams is a
recent graduate of
Fideles Christian
School and will
attend Kennesaw
State University to
pursue a nursing
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degree.
Priest graduated from Lambert
High School and plans to study
journalism at the University of
Georgia.
Per the release, the local chapter
will meet with school officials dur
ing the 2016-17 school year to dis
cuss the 2017 scholarship.
The group meets at 7 p.m. on the
first Monday of each month at the
Georgia Natural Guard Readiness
Center and welcomes all Vietnam
era veterans.
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