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General Manager’s Message – September 2025
How Is Your Attitude? I would like to write this month about attitude, specifically, my attitude. This summer, I was traveling across our wonderful country when a criminal broke into my vehicle and stole my checkbooks, camera, and approximately a…
Youthful Drive
SAEC Delegates Join Others for 2025 National Youth Tour High school students from all over the country represented local electric cooperatives during this year’s National Youth Tour in Washington, D.C. The 2 delegates selected by South Alabama Electric Cooperative —…
Safe & Sound
Know What To Do if Your Vehicle Hits a Utility Pole Do you know how to react if your vehicle strikes a power pole? What should you do if you come upon an accident that involves a vehicle colliding with…
General Manager’s Message – August 2025
Believe in You Have you ever had someone fully believe in you? Most of us can answer that question with mom or dad. Maybe a grandparent. I’m asking about outside of your family — a teacher, a coach, or someone…
Hurricane Preparedness
Be Ready for the Season’s Peak With 4 major hurricanes forecast for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters advise residents to be prepared as the season’s peak approaches. 9 hurricanes are predicted for this year’s Atlantic basin hurricane season, which…
Recipe Still Resonates After 6 Decades
Customers Rave About the Chicken Shack’s Prize-Winning Fried Chicken Winning Bama’s Best Fried Chicken contest triggered unimaginable and fortuitous chain reactions for owners of the Chicken Shack in Luverne. Michael and Drew Money, brothers who have been making their eatery’s…
General Manager’s Message – July 2025
Who Is Guiding Your Plan? At my church, we recently completed a long study of the Book of Genesis. For the unfamiliar, the summary is that God had a plan when he formed the universe and Earth from nothing. The…
Ahead of the Storm
South Alabama Electric Cooperative (SAEC) Prepares for Outages When Severe Weather Is Forecast Don Wambles knew the storm damage was bad when he set out around dawn on a Sunday morning in March. Wambles, coordinator of the Salem-Troy Baptist Association’s…
Walk Hard
Fraternity Fundraiser Supporting Veterans Has Record Year Troy University’s Alpha Tau Omega fraternity brothers set a record this year by raising $140,000 with their fundraiser supporting wounded veterans. During the philanthropic effort, called Walk Hard, a group of 35 fraternity…
General Manager’s Message – June 2025
Planning for the Roadblocks Those who have read my columns know I like to look back at history and apply those lessons to our current events. On June 6, 1944, the greatest invasion in military history was the Allied land,…