2022 July LREC Powerline Press Page 3

LREC Sends Three Local Students to Energy Camp

Left to right, Willie Wiredhand, Trenton Youngblood, Lowery School, Makayla Spencer, Porter School and Abby Gourd, Porter School.

Lake Region Electric Cooperative sent three exceptional students to Energy Camp from May 31 to June 3, with 55 other students, from across the state.

“This was the first energy camp hosted in 2 years. I think we’re all so excited to be back together and involved with our youth. Educating our local youth is one of our co-op principles,” added Juanita Keener, Youth Program Coordinator.

The students were selected from our local cooperative service area to attend Energy Camp sponsored by the Oklahoma Electric Cooperatives. The camp included electric safety training, climbing a utility pole, getting a bird’s eye view of the camp from the top of a bucket truck, motivational speakers, an electric vehicle demo, and plenty of swimming and sand volleyball.

LREC was represented by Trenton Youngblood, Makayla Spencer, and Abby Gourd . All three students were remarkable representatives of the cooperative and the community.

Co-op TALK - BABYPROOFING SAFETY

OMG, Katie is getting so big! She’ll be crawling in no time.

Prepare yourself for the craziness! They get into everything, Mike and I had to spend an entire afternoon babyproofing outlets.

I’m getting started on it! I am putting those plastic outlet covers everywhere.

It’s a good start. She’ll learn to pull them out before you know it. I think the best option is those self-closing outlet covers. There is lots of elbow grease on the install, but there aren’t pieces to break off.

self-closing outlet cover

Good idea! I’ve got to take care of all the cords, too!

It took forever, lol. We also used cord shorteners for some of the plugs from Amazon.

I found some cord protectors on Amazon, you can’t bend or break them.

Or just block them with a couch!

Lots to add to the shopping cart! Thanks for the tips!

For more safety info visit www.safeelectricity.org