washington youth tour writing competition
Electric Cooperatives: Powering Potential
Elease Holmes, Jason/Jennifer Holmes, 696 Nubia Rd. Westmoreland TN, (615) 888-3018
Portland High School, Helena Baier, 861 words
Ping! Zing! Zap! Ding! “Finally my machine is finished!” exclaimed Lizzy. Lizzy had been working for the past year to create a device to let her travel between dimensions, and finally all her hard work had paid off. “Now to test it” she said in an excited voice. Lizzy presses the button and opens the hatch. As she steps inside she can’t help but feel ecstatic knowing that she would be the first person to discover different realms. Then, with the press of the big, yellow button at the bottom of her remote, Lizzy was off to discover some random unknown world. After about five minutes, Lizzy had arrived in a place that she knew wasn’t going to be much fun at all; this world was dark. Even after spending only ten minutes in this new place, she could feel the amount of debt held by everyone that lived there. She decided to do a little research as to what had happened to the once vibrant place known as New York. Lizzy began asking the locals what had happened, and it seemed that every story was the same. “No one would listen to the electric cooperatives when they told us that we needed to conserve. We all thought they were after our money and were speaking nonsense when they would host public announcements about their whole Green Power Switch business. It wasn’t until it was too late that we discovered that electric cooperatives are non-profitable, voluntary organizations that are democratically run. We know now that they only wanted to help save us from this dark realm,” responds a passerby when Lizzy asks him how this happened. Lizzy had heard enough to know that it was time for her to leave, so she climbed back into her machine and decided to travel to the next dimension, hoping for a brighter outcome. Finally, Lizzy
Elease Holmes, Jason/Jennifer Holmes, 696 Nubia Rd. Westmoreland TN, (615) 888-3018
Portland High School, Helena Baier, 861 words
Ping! Zing! Zap! Ding! “Finally my machine is finished!” exclaimed Lizzy. Lizzy had been working for the past year to create a device to let her travel between dimensions, and finally all her hard work had paid off. “Now to test it” she said in an excited voice. Lizzy presses the button and opens the hatch. As she steps inside she can’t help but feel ecstatic knowing that she would be the first person to discover different realms. Then, with the press of the big, yellow button at the bottom of her remote, Lizzy was off to discover some random unknown world. After about five minutes, Lizzy had arrived in a place that she knew wasn’t going to be much fun at all; this world was dark. Even after spending only ten minutes in this new place, she could feel the amount of debt held by everyone that lived there. She decided to do a little research as to what had happened to the once vibrant place known as New York. Lizzy began asking the locals what had happened, and it seemed that every story was the same. “No one would listen to the electric cooperatives when they told us that we needed to conserve. We all thought they were after our money and were speaking nonsense when they would host public announcements about their whole Green Power Switch business. It wasn’t until it was too late that we discovered that electric cooperatives are non-profitable, voluntary organizations that are democratically run. We know now that they only wanted to help save us from this dark realm,” responds a passerby when Lizzy asks him how this happened. Lizzy had heard enough to know that it was time for her to leave, so she climbed back into her machine and decided to travel to the next dimension, hoping for a brighter outcome. Finally, Lizzy