THIS MONTH:
Home Energy Experts We typically devote our May issue to home improvement. And with all of us spending more time at home over the past year, it’s a hotter topic than ever. While you’re sprucing up your house, take some time to better understand how it’s using energy, too . Your electric co-op can help, and we give you some tips to get started on page 12.
(ISSN 0008-6746) (USPS 832800) Volume 53, No. 5
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3400 Sumner Blvd., Raleigh, NC 27616-2950 Warren Kessler Publications Director Scott Gates, CCC Editor Renee C. Gannon, CCC Senior Associate Editor Karen Olson House Contributing Editor
—Scott Gates, editor
Tara Verna Creative Director
From Our Readers Pet Photo Feedback We received a lot of comments from readers about our April issue pet photo contest. Here are a few from carolinacountry.com — thank you for all the feedback and suggestions! Awwwwww … Although I am disappointed my cat didn’t make it in the pics, I will say these are some GREAT photos. Congrats to all who won : ) Sharon McCarthy
Loved this Pet issue — congrats to the winners! You did write there were 1,000 entries. I think it would have been a nice use of space, instead of using such huge pictures, to utilize the space with smaller pictures and highlighting the winners, but then using the additional space just to show some more of the entries. I think that would have been more fun for your readers. That being said, I will look forward to another issue like this! Debbie Martin
I’m a little disappointed that there wasn’t one pet from each co-op chosen! Janelle Parrish
Erin Binkley Digital Media
Pet of the Month Clearly, we all love pet photos. Follow us on social media to keep them coming! We’ll be sharing a “pet of the month” photo beginning in April on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. April’s Pet of the Month ‘Quincy,’ Union Power Electric Cooperative member Darren Adams.
I’m convinced this contest was rigged worse than the Oscars. No offense to the pets that were chosen, but clearly the judges have a preference towards dogs (and boring ones at that). My cat is better looking and more interesting than all of the animals chosen. Next year, I recommend a new panel of judges. Erin Editor’s note: To keep our judging as fair as possible, photo contest entries are always presented to our judges without revealing the name, co-op, location or other information about the entrant. This way, photos are chosen based only on the parameters of the contest. We’re also limited by space in the magazine, unfortunately, but you can find more pet photos on carolinacountry.com/extras.
Corrections to our April issue: Curtis Wynn’s column (“Reflections on Two Years of National Service,” page 6) mentions a passing of the gavel to his predecessor; a passing of the gavel to his successor was the intended meaning. The photo of Harvey the English springer spaniel (page 16) was submitted by Charlie Nicholson of Lexington, a member of EnergyUnited.
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