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ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS (from left) Locke Karriker and Alicia Smith will represent Brunswick Electric Membership Corp. on the Rural Electic Youth Tour to Washington, D.C., in June, with Kristin Jones of Yaupon Beach as alternate. Two Brunswick Juniors Chosen For Rural Electric Youth Tour Two high school juniors each from Brunswick and Columbus countics will represent Brunswick Elcctric Membership Corp. during the annual Rural Elcctric Youth Tour to Washington, DC., this June. The four won an essay contest conducted by BEMC in which they described the role electricity would play in relation to their future ca reers. From Brunswick County the win ners arc Locke Karrikcr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Karrikcr of Boli via and a student at South Bruns wick High School; and Alicia Smith, daughter of Mrs. Nora Smith of Ash and a student al West Bruns wick High School. Their alternate will be Kristin Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Jones of Yaupon Beach and a student at South Bruns wick High School From Columbus County, the win ners arc Gary Edward Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. James G. Walker of Tabor City, and Sara Leggett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Leg gett of Whitcvillc. Their alternate is Margaret Lombardi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lombardi of White ville. The four winners will join ap proximately 1,000 similarly choscn delegates from 30 stales for the June 16-22 tour. They will attend educational seminars on govern-' ment, rural electrification and coop eratives, as well as meeting with members of their congressional del egation on Capitol Hill. A highlight of the trip is Rural Electric Youth Day, during which a program coordinated by the Nation al Rural Elcctric Cooperative Asso ciation will feature speeches by government and rural electric offi cials. The day also includes an "Energy BatUc" competition and se lection of delegates to serve on the Youth Consulting Board, a commit tee of young people who take part in a number of NRECA-sponsored activities during the year. Tour par ticipants also visit places of histori cal interest in the capital and partic ipate in social and cultural activi ties. For several years the North Caro lina delegates have participated in a "soda pop co-op," which supplies canncd drinks for the Tar Heel tour participants while giving them hands-on experience in how a coop erative operates. Also, all Youth Tourists are eligi ble for a $1,000 scholarship to the college of their choice. Waccamaw Youth Headed. To N.C. Geography Bee A seventh-grade student at Wac CduiSW LSciTsCniajf School isi Ash will travel to Raleigh Friday to compete in the state Geography Bee. .~w .y. - <:?v, Michael Todd was among the top 100 scorers on a 60-item written test taken by school geogra phy bee winners statewide, said his social stud ies instructor, Mary Katherine Griffith. He will be accompanied to Raleigh by todd Waccamaw School Principal Bill Shoemaker. The state competition is oral, as the school bee was, said Ms. Grif- j fiih. Five preliminary rounds invol ving 20 students each will be held, with the top two students from each round advancing to the final round. State bee winners and their chap e rones will receive all-expenscs paid trips May 23 ana 24 to Wash ington, D.C., for the national finals. National winners will receive schol arship ranging up to $25,000 in val ue. The bee is sponsored by National Geographic WORLD, the National Geographic Society's magazine for children, and several corporations. 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Brunswick ROCAME Delegates Attend Statewide Gathering Ten Brunswick County ROCA ME delegates attended the seventh annual state conference of the North Carolina Council for Minorities in Science, Mathematics and En gineering March 8 and 9 at the Uni versity of North Carolina at Wil mington. "ROCAME" stands for Region "O" Council for the Advancement of Minorities in Engineering. Theme of the conference was "Matching Talents to Ambitions." Forty-eight ROCAME students from five area school systems com peted with students from three other organizations located in the Fayette ville, Greenville and Roanoke Ra pids areas. Counly delegates were Christine Lloyd of Lcland Middle School, Eric Carpenter of Waccamaw Ele mentary School; Jocelyn Ward of Shallottc Middle; Jussani McKoy of South Brunswick Middle School; Patficc Law and Timmy Myles of South Brunswick High School; Wanda Morgan and John Gore of West Brunswick High School; and Julian Bryant and Klcist Bowman of North Brunswick High School. Local coordinators who attended the gathering were Shirley William son, Ophelia Kcaton, Beatrice Flythc, Lisa Brown and William Flythc. All students at the conference participated in writing and math contests, as well as a construction competition in which straw towers, wooden airplanes and paper air planes were built. Other activities included a banquet and dance at the UNCW student union March 8, and quiz bowls and an awards ceremony March 9. Twenty-four four-member teams participated in the various compcti lions at the junior and senior high school levels. The local ROCAME junior high quiz bowl team won second place. Third-place awards went to Bowman's team in the pa per airplane and writing contests. Carpenter's team lied for third place in the paper airplane contest. Miss Ward and Miss Lloyd's team fin ished third in the wooden airplane competition. 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