::Sawnee EMC Donates $1000.00::

Story Contact: Cindy King
Phone: 678-455-1539
E-Mail: cindy.king@sawnee.com

SAWNEE EMC OPERATION ROUND UP DONATES $1,000.00 TO CHALLENGED CHILD AND FRIENDS, INC.

(Cumming, December 18, 2003)—Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation’s Board of Directors voted to donate $1, 000.00 to Challenged Child and Friends, Inc. of Hall County. Sawnee EMC adopted Operation Round Up in April 2003 and formed the Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation. Operation Round Up is a program designed to allow our members to voluntarily “round up” their electric bills to the next dollar. Through this unique program, members of Sawnee EMC can donate “small change” and still make big differences in their communities. All, 100%, of members’ donations goes to qualifying 501 (c)(3) organizations within Sawnee’s service territory.

Challenged Child and Friends, Inc. has served families for nearly 20 years. They are an integrated therapeutic center for infants and preschoolers with special needs and their typical friends. The center is located at 2360 Murphy Blvd. in Gainesville. The money will be used to sponsor a child.

“We began “rounding up” bills in June and, through the generosity of our members, we were able to donate money before the holidays, which is simply incredible”, stated Cindy King, Director of External Affairs, Sawnee EMC. To learn more about the Operation Round Up program and the Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation, visit www.sawnee.com or call Customer Service at 770-887-2363.

Sawnee EMC is a consumer-owned cooperative providing electricity and related services to over 110,000 members in Forsyth, Cherokee, Dawson, Hall, Fulton, Gwinnett, and Lumpkin counties. Collectively, Georgia’s 42 consumer-owned EMCs provide electricity and related services to 3.7 million people, nearly half of Georgia’s population, across 73% of the state’s land area. Georgia’s electric membership cooperatives now serve more customers than any other state network of EMCs in the nation.