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Exciting news! Baumann wins scholarship!

Congratulations to Jacob Baumann, winner one of the 2015-2016 Member Cooperative Employee Scholarships from Basin Electric Cooperative! The $1,000 scholarship is for dependents of employees only. Basin only selects a handful of students from across the region, so to be chosen is a huge honor!

Jacob is the son of Irene and Jerel Baumann. Irene works for DVEC in the Edgeley office.

Employees like his mom give in small ways that make a big impact in their communities, he said.

Jacob wrote about cooperatives and commitment to community as part of an essay for the scholarship. This year, the essay subject was: “Pick one of the four values of innovation, accountability, integrity and commitment to community and describe how you see this value in action at your local cooperative.”

 

Read Jacob’s essay below.

 

I would say that there are a lot of people at the cooperative that highly regard the value of commitment to community. You can see this in various ways, if you look at the linemen you will see some strong commitment to their job and community. During the winter, there are of course power outages which are caused by a buildup of ice on the power lines and various other reasons. These linemen have to go out to those lines and get the power back up and running regardless of if it is 30 degrees below. Yes, it is their job, but if they weren’t committed to helping the community with this job they wouldn’t be able to accomplish it to the extent that they do. Another way that employees of Dakota Valley are committed to the community is that they participate in local events. Many of them are also willing to buy fruit, wreaths or other items that are being sold as fundraisers for our local student organizations. One of the most important commitments to the community, in my opinion however, is that quite a few employees donate blood, participate in other events like Relay for Life and area a part of various councils in the different cities that they are part of. I would say that due to the outstanding job that the employees already do for the community, along with all these other tasks stated, that the employees are very committed to the community. This is wonderful because without commitment from the various businesses and their employees, you wouldn’t be able to have much of a community, it would just be quiet and boring all the time. It is thanks to people such as these employees that the community even exists and is constantly moving forward in development.


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