WIEC
is pleased to announce the 2007 Y2W winner is Kortney Freeman, daughter of
Tony and Kelly Freeman, Carthage and Warren and Kim Johnson, also of
Carthage. Kortney will be a senior at Illini West High School in
Carthage.
Kortney joined about 50 other Illinois high school
students who descended on Washington during the week of June
8-15, 2007. During
the time in D.C., students learned about American and rural electric
history, as well as state and federal government. They visited
representatives in the House and Senate, and took in an impressive list of
historic sites, such as Arlington National Cemetery, the Smithsonian Air
and Space Museum, the World War II Memorial, the U.S. Memorial Holocaust
Museum, and even visited the White House.
As part of the contest, WIEC awarded the two
entrants an all-expense trip to Springfield, IL as part of the Youth Day
in Springfield to visit the Illinois State Capitol on March
28, 2007. They
saw state government in action.
The winners of this trip were Kortney Freeman and Cassie Folkerts,
daughter of Ed and Sandy Folkerts of Carthage.
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