Full Text of HR0423 098th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the members of | 4 | | Western Illinois Electrical Coop. on the 75th anniversary of | 5 | | their cooperative; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Western Illinois Electrical Coop. was officially | 7 | | formed on August 1, 1938 in
Carthage, Illinois, through the | 8 | | hard work and dedication of a handful of local residents | 9 | | wanting to improve living and farming conditions for themselves | 10 | | and their neighbors; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Because of the lack of density, it simply wasn't | 12 | | possible for the for-profit utilities to make a profit serving | 13 | | rural areas with only a few farms or homes per mile of electric | 14 | | line; with the help of loans from the Rural Electrification | 15 | | Administration (REA), the people living in these rural areas | 16 | | banded together to form member-owned and member-governed | 17 | | electric cooperatives; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, This group of local residents went door to door | 19 | | signing up their neighbors to become members of Western | 20 | | Illinois Electrical Coop. and convincing them that a | 21 | | cooperative would bring lights and power to the rural area; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Their hard work paid off and Western Illinois | 2 | | Electrical Coop.'s lines were first energized on January 10, | 3 | | 1940, initially serving 716 member-owners in Hancock County; | 4 | | and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Western Illinois Electrical Coop. continues to | 6 | | provides reliable electric
service to member-owners in Adams, | 7 | | Hancock, Henderson, and McDonough counties; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, For 75 years, the cooperative has served its | 9 | | member-owners based on 7 guiding principles: voluntary and open | 10 | | membership, member-elected and controlled boards of directors, | 11 | | members' economic participation, autonomy and independence, | 12 | | education and training, cooperation among cooperatives, and | 13 | | concern for community; therefore, be it
| 14 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 15 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 16 | | we congratulate the members of the Western Illinois Electrical | 17 | | Coop. on the 75th anniversary of their cooperative; and be it | 18 | | further
| 19 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 20 | | presented to Western Illinois Electrical Coop. as a symbol of | 21 | | our esteem and respect.
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