FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2017
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OTEC sends students
to Washington D.C.
Bebe’s word search
Submitted Photo
L-R: Mason Tomac (Baker City), Annie Wall (Canyon City), Anna Gambill
(La Grande), and Bonny Daggett (Imbler) were all smiles and had their bags
expertly packed. All four OTEC delegates set off for the 2017 Washington D.C.
Electric Cooperative Youth Tour on Friday, June 9.
Bonny Daggett (Im-
bler), Anna Gambill (La
Grande), Mason Tomac
(Baker City), and Annie
Wall (Canyon City) packed
their bags, loaded up into
the Subaru Tribeca and set
off for the 2017 Washing-
ton D.C. Electric Coopera-
tive Youth Tour on Friday,
June 9.
Each student was com-
petitively selected and will
represent Oregon and the
Northwest as they join
1,500 of their colleagues
from across the United
States for a one-week trip
to our nation’s capital.
Over the course of the
week, OTEC’s student
delegates will visit famous
historical sites, engage in
leadership training, meet
with their elected congres-
sional representatives on
Capitol Hill, and bond
with students from co-op
communities all across the
country.
They will also learn
about electric coopera-
tives and current issues in
energy and climate change
legislation that face our
communities and our na-
tion.
“This tour was initiated
after Senator Lyndon B.
Johnson suggested that
cooperatives send young,
promising student lead-
ers to the nation’s capital
where they could have the
opportunity to see, fi rst-
hand, what the American
The
fl ag stands for and repre-
sents,” said OTEC Manag-
er of Communications and
Governments Affairs Lara
Petitclerc-Stokes. “Our
student delegates will have
a week packed full visiting
historical war memori-
als, national archives, the
Library of Congress and
the Smithsonian to name
a few.”
“It is part of our Seven
Cooperative Principles to
dedicate education and
training to the advance-
ment of youth within the
communities we serve,”
said Petitclerc-Stokes.
“This is an invaluable op-
portunity for these young
leaders to travel and expe-
rience our nation’s capital.
It is, for many, a once-in-a-
life-time event.”
OTEC’s 2016 Youth Tour
delegate Heather Keniry
agreed, “During our trip
last year, I was exposed
to the ideals of a coopera-
tive and how they work to
promote community as
well as innovation. Grow-
ing up in the small town of
La Grande instilled in me
an appreciation of com-
munity and all it can do for
the people who are able to
be a part of it. I feel OTEC
embodies the defi nition of
community and its sup-
port inspires me to make
a difference in the world.
Through my Youth Tour
experience I received the
direction I needed to begin
my college career. I will
always have the lasting
impact that this trip made
on me to help move me
forward with my education
and learn more.”
Previous Youth Tour
participants have become
university presidents,
CEOs of Fortune 500 com-
panies, and members of
Congress. In 2015, Apple
CEO Tim Cook credited
the Youth Tour with his
fi rst trip to Washington in
his commencement speech
to graduates of George
Washington University.
Over the past 52 years,
nearly 52,000 students
have visited Washington
through the Youth Tour.
If you are a high school
sophomore heading into
your junior year and would
like more details on the
Washington D.C. Electric
Cooperative Youth Tour,
please visit: www.youth-
tour.coop. Applications for
the 2018 tour will be avail-
able beginning November
2017.
OTEC is a non-profi t
electric cooperative serv-
ing 23,000 members in
Baker, Grant, Harney and
Union counties. Youth
Tour funds come from
unclaimed capital credits
and their earnings. OTEC
is also a member of the
National Rural Electric
Cooperative Association
(NRECA).
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The Littles’ crossword puzzle
Across
1- Homeric epic;
6- Explorer Tasman;
10- Former nuclear
agcy.;
13- Water wheel;
14- Amusement;
15- Defendant’s an-
swer;
16- Give guns again;
17- Like Death Valley;
18- Ferengi feature;
19- O.T. book;
20- Book of hymns;
22- Perceived to be;
24- Infl ammation of the
ear;
28- Hawk homes;
31- Hard outgrowths;
32- Red Bordeaux;
34- Mule’s sire;
36- Foolish;
37- Evergreen tree;
38- Not aligned;
41- ___ Moines, Iowa;
42- Mil. school;
44- On the ___ (fl ee-
ing);
45- More pleasant;
47- Mudville slugger;
49- In a weird way;
51- Essay;
53- Abnormal;
56- Disorder;
59- Hwys.;
61- Passed with fl ying
colors;
64- Laugh loudly;
65- City in Tuscany;
66- French cheese;
67- Utah ski resort;
68- Ankle bones;
69- Writer Rand;
70- 8th letter of the
Hebrew alphabet;
71- First name in pho-
tography;
Down
1- Memo starter;
2- Silt deposit;
3- Steaming;
4- Dolt;
5- Grand Coulee, for
one;
6- Two-time U.S. Open
champ;
7- Silents star Theda;
8- Pianist Gilels;
9- Brought on;
10- Pie-mode link;
11- Always, poetically;
12- ___ in Charlie;
15- Portion of time;
20- Package;
21- Ordinal suffi x;
23- Dodge model;
25- Give and take?;
26- Deduce;
27- Concordes, e.g.;
29- Words on a Won-
derland cake;
30- Abbr. on old maps;
32- Book after Jonah;
33- Rub out;
35- Soundness of judg-
ment;
37- Truth;
39- Persian Gulf fed.;
40- Bell-shaped fl ower;
43- Marquis ___;
46- Cypriot;
48- Feminine side;
50- Enthusiastic;
52- Mother of Isaac;
54- Anatomical pas-
sages;
55- Perfume;
57- Stage part;
58- Suffragist Carrie;
60- Clipper feature;
61- Legal org.;
62- Have a bawl;
63- German “a”;
65- RR stop;