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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,…
Montgomery Youth Tour
Students Gain a Deeper Understanding of How Cooperatives, & Government Work Cade May and Lola Drinkwater were surprised by the Alabama State House, naming it as 1 of their favorite stops during this year’s Montgomery Youth Tour. “We got to…
Fond Farewell
After 36 Years With SAEC, Hill Embraces Life’s Next Chapter Mark Hill got the first slice of 4 red velvet cakes, baked in his honor by a fellow retiree. Co-workers past and present, board members, and family members packed South…
General Manager’s Message – May 2025
The Leaning of 2 Trees The older you get in life, the more you look back and reflect on the people who had a hand in shaping you as a person. I have always been blessed to have people like…