Area students represent Tri-County on Youth Tour

MANSFIELD – Seven area high school students represented Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative on the 2006 Rural Electric Youth Tour held in Washington, D.C., in June.

The Youth Tour, organized annually by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association since the 1960s, brings more than 1,400 students from around the country to the nation’s capital for one week each summer. Participating students will be entering their senior year in high school in the fall.

Tri-County holds a contest to select the student delegates it will sponsor for the all-expenses-paid trip.

Chosen on the basis on an application, essay and extracurricular activities, the following students represented Tri-County on the 2006 Youth Tour: Jessica Rose Barrett, daughter of Marvin Edward and Rose Anne Barrett of Middlebury Center, a student at Wellsboro Area High School; Danielle Fulmer, daughter of Daniel and Vicki Fulmer of Westfield, Cowanesque Valley High School; Nicole Lee Karschner, daughter of Dennis L. and Laura Karschner of Ulysses, Galeton Area High School; Zachary Kreger, son of James and Nancy Kreger of Morris, Liberty High School; Sarah Satterlee, daughter of Roland and Annetta Satterlee of Knoxville, Cowanesque Valley High School; Alison Spanner, daughter of Patricia Spanner of Morris, Liberty High School; and Danek Torrey, son of Karl and Gay Torrey of Coudersport, Hebron Central Christian School.

As part of the Pennsylvania delegation, Tri-County’s Youth Tour students visited landmarks including the World War II, Korean, and Vietnam War memorials, Jefferson and Washington monuments, Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorials, the National Mall, Smithsonian museums, the National Zoo, the National Republican Club of Capitol Hill and the International Spy Museum, where students had the chance to assume a spy identity.

Visits with U.S. Rep. Don Sherwood and Sen. Rick Santorum, an evening boat cruise on the Potomac River, a tour of Mt. Vernon and a live theatrical production at the Kennedy Center rounded out the itinerary.

A member-owned, non-profit utility, Tri-County has served the residents of northcentral Pennsylvania since 1937. The cooperative provides electricity to approximately 18,000 members in Tioga, Potter, Bradford, Lycoming, Clinton, McKean and Cameron counties.

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