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Founded in 1939, LREC is a not-for-profit member-owned electric cooperative organized to provide electricity to citizens in rural areas where electric energy was not currently available.

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January 30, 2023

Cooperative Youth Summit

Your co-op has two amazing trips planned this summer. Juniors: Apply for the Washington Youth Tour. Sophomores: Apply for the Cooperative Youth Summit. Juniors: Experience Washington, D.C., with hundreds of students from across South Carolina and the country, meeting lawmakers and touring all the sights. Your electric co-op will cover your round-trip plane ticket, tours, […]

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January 30, 2023

Lynches River awards Bright Ideas grants to three local teachers

Lynches River Electric Cooperative was proud to award three local teachers a Bright Ideas grant award in 2022. Stephanie Truesdale of Kershaw Elementary School received $1,000 for her grant project, “Glow Painting is a Bright Idea.” Gladys Thompson of Erwin Elementary School was awarded $300 for her project, “Coffee Cart” and Thomas Moncrief, music teacher […]

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September 2, 2022

Cooperative Youth Summit

Olivia Ritchie (front, third from left), of North Central High School, was one of 36 South Carolina students that took part in the Cooperative Youth Summit, a four-day journey of their state’s capital and the surrounding area that went beyond the traditional field trip. The students visited Riverbanks Zoo & Garden, explored electric vehicles, and […]

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Washington Youth Tour and Cooperative Youth Summit

August 1, 2022

Youth Tour ‘life changing’ for local teens

For Olivia Ritchie, it’s the people and the places that made Washington Youth Tour so special. Ritchie, Clara Grace Branham, and Sawyer Becker were sponsored by Lynches River Electric and joined 46 other South Carolina high school students sent by their electric cooperatives to Washington, D.C., in June. The visits to the city’s monuments and […]

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May 26, 2022

Johnson receives NRECA certification

LREC Safety Coordinator Chris Johnson has been named a Certified Loss Control Professional by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). This designation is the result of Johnson’s participation in four week-long sessions designed to challenge and educate participants with innovative safety techniques. According to NRECA, Johnson is one of a select few electric utility […]

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Washington Youth Tour and Cooperative Youth Summit

April 29, 2022

Students chosen for Youth Tour, Summit

Four local high school students will represent Lynches River Electric Cooperative in the nation’s capital this summer as part of the Washington Youth Tour.   Sawyer Becker from Cheraw High, Daiveon Glover from Chesterfield High, and Clara Grace Branham and Olivia Ritchie from North Central High were selected to participate in the all-expenses-paid trip June 18-23. […]

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March 17, 2022

Apply now for 2022 WIRE scholarships

Jenny Ballard was persistent in pursuing the things she felt needed to be accomplished. It’s a trait that helped her and women like her launch Women South Carolina Involved in Rural Electrification (WIRE)—a Women Involved in Rural Electrification service organization associated with South Carolina’s electric cooperatives—40 years ago. It’s also why a scholarship for women […]

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February 3, 2022

Bright Ideas: LREC awards over $6,000 in teacher grants

Teachers in Chesterfield, Lancaster, and Kershaw counties have an opportunity to receive classroom grants, thanks to the Bright Ideas program Lynches River Electric Cooperative launched in 2019. “Bright Ideas was created to support local teachers and provide funding for innovative and effective classroom curriculum,” says Erica Shehane, LREC community relations liaison. “We strive to improve […]

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