DEFUNIAK SPRINGS — CHELCO members can enjoy food, entertainment, gifts and a chance to win one of many prizes during the co-op’s 75th annual meeting.
Activities will include a bounce house, face-painting, door-prize drawings and vendor booths. A 75th anniversary history video will be shown for the first time. In addition, Touchstone Energy’s hot air balloon will provide tethered rides, weather permitting.
Entertainment will include a performance from the Niceville High School Jazz Band and a Franklin D. Roosevelt storytelling experience from local actor Bruce Collier. Roosevelt created the Rural Electrification Administration that led to cooperatives like CHELCO serving rural areas that had no power.
The meeting is Saturday, April 16 at CHELCO Operations Center, 723 Highway 331 N., DeFuniak Springs. Gates will open at 8:30 a.m., registration will begin at 9 a.m., and entertainment will start about 9:30 a.m.
At the 10:45 a.m. business meeting, CHELCO CEO Steve Rhodes will address members, and the results of the election for three seats on the CHELCO board of trustees will be announced.
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: Choctawhatchee Electrical Cooperative annual meeting set April 16