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Barnhart attends Youth Tour
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ames Barnhart from Carrollton attended the Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives Youth Tour to Washington, D.C., from June 8 to 14, representing Carroll Electric Cooperative, Inc. The Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives Youth Tour is an annual youth leadership experience for high school sophomores and juniors from families served by electric cooperatives. On the trip, students visited the nation’s capital and its many famous and historic sites. They also met members of Ohio’s congressional delegation on Capitol Hill and learned about public service and the cooperative business model. The son of Edward and Christine Barnhart, James was one of 39 students from the state of Ohio — and 1,888 students from electric co-ops across the country — who participated in this year’s Youth Tour. Sites on this year’s tour included the United States Capitol; the Vietnam and Korean War memorials; the Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
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Thomas Jefferson, and Martin Luther King Jr. memorials; the Smithsonian Museums of Natural History and American History; the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Center; and the Gettysburg battlefield.