SRE sends local youth to Youth Leadership Seminar
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    LUCEDALE, MS –Three high school juniors represented Singing River Electric Power Association at the Electric Power Associations of Mississippi Youth Leadership Workshop in Jackson on March 5-7. The students will also participate in the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association's Youth Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., this summer.

     Philip Bridges of Perry Central High School, Laura Polk of East Central High School and Robert Wineski of Ocean Springs High School were chosen as Singing River Electric's representatives for the youth leadership program.
     Candidates were required to have a 3.0 grade average and reside in

     Singing River Electric's service area to apply for the program. After being selected by their school, the students participated in interviews at the cooperative.