OREMC Welcomes New Member Service Representatives
Okefenoke REMC is pleased to introduce its newest Member Service Representatives Kari Johns and Conner Selph. While they actually joined OREMC back in March, they have been training over the past few months getting ready for their permanent placements: Johns in Hilliard, Florida, and Conner in Nahunta.
Foundation Grant Award Helps Support Foster Families
OREMC Foundation celebrated a $2,500 grant awarded to the Brantley Chapter of Called to Care, Inc, by the OREMC Foundation for their beds and bedding program. Serving 22 counties in South Georgia, Called to Care’s mission is to educate and equip community partners and volunteers in order to meet the needs of vulnerable children in the foster care system.
OREMC Foundation Celebrates First Anniversary
The OREMC Foundation is a community development initiative of Okefenoke REMC supporting education, community health and economic development in the six Georgia and two Florida counties the co-op serves. Since its inception in August 2021, the OREMC Foundation has awarded over $171,000 to 48 organizations in OREMC’s service area
Annual Meeting 2022: A Return to In-Person
Despite the pandemic still being a backdrop to our daily lives, “living with it” has become norm and the motivation for OREMC to once again return to an in-person annual meeting, with a few adjustments based on lessons learned from our drive-in meetings the past two years. The 2022 OREMC Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, September 10.
"No Place Like Home" for OREMC's Newest Linemen
Okefenoke REMC is pleased to welcome four new linemen: Dakota “DJ” Clark and Alex Wilson are working out of OREMC’s Kingsland office, and Josh Grantham and Jesus Villanueva are working out of the Hillard office.
OREMC Rates Q & A
OREMC has announced its second power cost adjustment since July 1, 2022 due to increasing power generation costs as a direct result of the continual rise in natural gas prices. The new wholesale power cost adjustment will be effective September 1 and add an additional $.017022 per kWh. The following explains the price you pay for power and how and why it changes from time to time.
A Mission to Serve
For Pam Curtis it is not just a job, it is personal.
“My favorite thing to do is serve the employees,” Pam says with a hint of emotion in her voice. “As my job evolved and I was able to put myself into my work, I learned what I was best at—being an employee advocate. I like serving other people.”
Since joining OREMC nearly 30 years ago, Pam has had the opportunity to work with just about every employee. She started out as a personnel assistant filing insurance claims. Then she moved on to payroll, assisted employees with savings withdrawals, car loans, insurance questions/claims/bills and ran interference regarding long term, short term and workers’ compensation claims. In short, she became the “go to girl” for questions and information as the employees trusted her and knew she would work to resolve their issues.
Birdie Smith Reflects on 35 Years
It has been nearly 35 years since Byron “Birdie” Smith was part of a construction crew remolding OREMC’s headquarters building in Nahunta, when OREMC Construction Superintendent Culbert Johns approached him about working for the co-op. The rest, as they say, is history.
OREMC Announces 2022 Youth Award Winners
Okefenoke REMC is pleased to announce its 2022 OREMC Scholarship winners and the four students selected as delegates for the OREMC Youth Tour.
OREMC Foundation Accepting Grant Applications
The OREMC Foundation is once again accepting applications for its quarterly grant awards program. All applications must be received by Monday, April 4, 2022. Qualified organizations are invited to submit grant applications outlining their project plans and related funding requests.
