dpb wrote:
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Since it is a co-operative, it is customer-owned and important to have
enough folks to show up for the annual meetings ...

OBTW...

If yours is anything like all others with which have any connection or
contact (and that's quite a number w/ length of association thru folks
and continued since returning to the home place and serving on board),
it'll be from a fairly major to perhaps the premier social event of the
year for the long-term members. The more the number of rural members as
opposed to the residential customers the higher on the scale that will
be, undoubtedly...

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