Continued

NEW JERSEY

Bob Cervino and Crew Member John McGaha, Borough of Haddonfield

David Hendrickson and Crew Member Rusty Hubbs, Public Service Electric & Gas

NEW YORK

Railroad Division Crew Member Scott Blankenship, Long Island Railroad

Supervisor Joe Greenwald, Foreman Vincent Haight and Crew Members Charlie Johnson and Jim Marks, for trimming a dangerous tree that threatened the parsonage at the First Baptist Church in Ossining, Consolidated Edison Co. of New York

Kevin Murphy and Crew Member Mike Kearsing, Orange & Rockland Utilities

Mike Purdy and Crew Member Dan Emerson, Consolidated Edison Co. of New York
(two letters were received)

NEW ZEALAND

Ben Zimmerman and Crew Members Greg Edwards and Joe Kaiwai, Manukau City Council

NORTH CAROLINA

Asplundh Brush Control (ABC) Foreman Ben Newton and Crew Members Butch Maxwell and Tom Decker,
North Carolina Dept. of Transportation

OHIO

Rodney Baughman and Crew, Westerville Electric Division

Foremen Frank Dotson and Jon Nemecek, for personally returning a lost wallet to its grateful owner, First Energy

General Foreman Ron Lacy, Foremen Darrell Cranfill and Kris Kretzer and Crew Members Gene Adkins, William Gallimore, Lonnie Lacy and Steve Schnuck, Cinergy

Larry Mauk and Crew, for reporting an oil leak at a substation transformer before it caused a power outage,
American Electric Power

General Foreman Ron Miller and Foremen Jim Mason and Rodney Spencer and Crews, The Illuminating Company

Dan Mock and Crew Member Jerry Thorpe, Dayton Power & Light

General Foreman John Wolfe and Crew of "Wood Chucks", City of Cuyahoga Falls

OKLAHOMA

Construction Foreman Kerry Fletcher and Crew Members Dale Brandner and Dan Brandner, for donating their time to trim a tree at the Nazarene Church in Beaver, New Century Energies

OREGON

Ron Bereman and Crew Member William Potts, Portland General Electric

PENNSYLVANIA

General Foremen Steve Bannan and Rick Tompkins, Foremen Sal Baldo, Adam Briggs, Tony Pinelli, Mark Tarloski and Ed Vonbergen and Crew Members Steve Bannan II, Frank Devine, Eric Herston, Keith Jennings, Kevin Jervis, Dave Johnson, Sean McHale, Dan Morgan, Art Synder, Jeff Thomas and Doug Wagner, PECO Energy Co.

Jonathan Howells and Crew, Citizens' Electric Co.

General Foreman Tom McKinney, Sr., for delivering a load of chips to the Philadelphia Glider Council for their playground and picnic area, Pennsylvania Power & Light

Project Technician Denise Megill of the Electronic Billing Dept., Central Southwest Services

Railroad Division General Foreman Ronnie Nottingham, Foreman Dan Shotwell and Crew, Amtrak

SOUTH CAROLINA

Johnny Bell and Crew, for removing dead tree limbs at the North Myrtle Beach Primary School, Santee Cooper

Railroad Division Supervisor Jim Welsh, General Foreman Joe Morrison and Crew Members Dave Chandler, Ken Robinson and Jerry Thiessen, CSX Transportation

TENNESSEE

Marcus Bell and Crew, Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division

Desmond Bolton and Crew, Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division

Ronnie Clark and Crew Members Jack Arnold, James Crawford and Ossie Terry, Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division

General Foreman Michael Hope, Foreman Thomas Donahue and Crew Members Terrell Jackson and Richard Molphus, Memphis Light, Gas, and Water Division

Kenny Kemper, Ronnie Roberts and Crew Members Glenn Robert and Dennis Wix, Nashville Electric Service

TEXAS

Permissions Person Carlos Arteaga, Foreman Salvador Dominguez and Crew, Texas New Mexico Power Co.

Permissions Person Joey Bruno, Southwestern Electric Power Co.

Russell Drew and Crew, Southwestern Electric Power Co.

General Foreman Frank Perez, Foreman Santos Canales and Crew, Texas New Mexico Power Co.

Jesse Perez and Crew, Austin Energy

Supervisor Lance Vining and General Foreman Keith McAnear, for arranging for the Girl Scouts of Central Texas to use a chipper to clean up brush before summer camp began, Texas Utilities Electric

VERMONT

General Foreman Sean MacPhee and Crew, for helping to chip brush from a recent storm at the Ascutney Union Church, Central Vermont Public Service Corp.

Kris Dulmer and Crew Member Martin Miller, for helping tow a truck for Cheney Flooring Service, Central Vermont Public Service Corp.

VIRGINIA

Jeff Gordon and Crew Members Chris Clark and Walter Reamy, Jr., Northern Neck Electric Cooperative

WASHINGTON

Permissions Person Janet Brown, for donating two loads of chips to Boy Scout Troop 1539 for a new picnic area and erosion control on an embankment, Puget Sound Energy

Dean Bumgarner and Crew Members Mike Anderson and Mike Wood, Puget Sound Energy
(two letters were recieved)

Dave Burress and Crew, Snohomish County PUD

Gary Easton, Shaun Loring, Robert Newbury and Crew Member Damon Bowen, Pacific Power & Light

John Eiseman and Crew Members Mike Bohanan and Kevin Reese, Clark County PUD

Dennis Erspamer and Crew Members John Captain and Paea Ngauamo, Clark County PUD

Kevin Ford and Crew, Clark County PUD

Gary Gast, Pat Hartley and Crew Member Richard Lizio, Clark County PUD

Randy Gusa and Crew, Snohomish County PUD

General Foreman Ronnie Hynes, Foreman William Maybin, Jr. and Crew, Snohomish County PUD

General Foremen Rob Fly and Jim Trainer, for donating chips and taking care of uprooted trees behind Pearson Elementary in Poulsbo so the 6th grade class could construct an environmental learning center and nature trail, Puget Sound Energy

Vice President Mick Kavran, Supervisor Larry Lee, General Foremen Chris Anderson, Garry Fenster and Mike Roosendaal, Permissions Person Don McQuilliams, Foremen Don Carlson, Tim Connell, Neil Deacy, Don Jones, Robert Newbury, Dave Watts, Kenny Williams, Crew Members Derrick Bardsley, Damon Bowen, Randall Colts, Ray Dowdle, Corey Norribom, Dave Page, Harry Pappas, Joe Schauss, Ryan Simmonds, George Slebodnick, Jeff Somsak, Steven Thompson and their families, for participating in and working very hard during Puget Sound Energy's portion of the Mountain to Sound Greenway project on May 20, Puget Sound Energy

Permissions Person Bill Kloes, Pugent Sound Energy

Gordon Laulainen and Crew, Puget Sound Energy

Chris Peppinger and Crew, Snohomish County PUD

Foremen Gary Torrence and Bob Reimer, Avista Utilities

John Wood, Larry Ensminger and Crew Member Monty Nolting, Benton County PUD

WEST VIRGINIA

George Baisden and Crew, American Electric Power

WISCONSIN

Scott Blackford and Crew Members Jason Cawley and Jim Rogers, Wisconsin Electric Power Co.

Jude Teumer and Crew Member Frank Teumer, Oakdale Electric Cooperative

STORM WORK

General Foreman Pete Wicklund, Foreman David Yarlott and Crew, for doing an excellent job taking care of trees damaged during a violent storm on June 11 in East Hartford, Private Property Storm Work (CT)

General Foreman Francis Chase and Crews, for doing an outstanding job keeping up with tree work calls during a bad storm on July 15 in the Manatee County area, Florida Power & Light (FL)

Manager Barry Hooper, General Foreman Mark Pitt and Crews, for helping to get over 13,000 customers back in service after storms hit the towns of Adrian, Blissfield, Deerfield, South Monroe and Temperence during the week of May 8, Consumers Energy (MI)

General Foreman Carroll Pugh, Foreman Bobby Rathbone and Crew Members Billy Batten and Marlo Crittendon of Virginia, for helping to put the corner of a church's tin roof back in place after it had curled up during bad storms in Graham, North Carolina, Duke Power Co. (NC)

General Foremen Jack Johnston, Ron Miller, Clifford Randolph and Dan Stubbs, Permissions Person Scott Vliek, Foremen Brett Beach, Billy Fulcher, Kenny Gearin, James Mason, Larry Merrill, Chris Myers, Clarence Pontius, David Shumaker, Bobby Strickland, Lance Weston, Michael Wooten and Richard Yartz, and Crew Members Nathan Byrnes, Bob Ferguson, James Hedrick, Sam Raske, Steve Spencer, Cory Thomas, Rodney Ulrich and Michael Young, for professional skills and dedication in helping to get power restored to more than 38,000 customers after a July 14 series of thunderstorms in Youngstown, Ohio Edison (OH)

General Foreman Chris Quinn and Crews, for quality and safe execution of work during emergency storm work on June 2 and 3 in western Pennsylvania, Penn Power (PA)

General Foreman Tim McGowen, Permissions Person Bill Weatherford, Foremen Sonny Baxley, Wiley Coston, Jr., Terry Lanier and Eddie Walker, for being ready to work, working professionally and being a great team during clean-up from a storm in May, Southwestern Electric Power Co. (TX)

General Foremen Juan Campos, Henry Galvan, Juan Gonzalez, Imber Hernandez, Jake Kitzmiller, Jerry Ledet, Wayne Lee, Dan Lewis, Raymundo Marfil, Jeff Mills, Jerry Ray, Rigaberto Reveles, Daniel Rushing, Eddie Sandoval, Martin Sandoval, Mike Sills, Ignacio Vazquez, Milton Ventura and their Crews, for doing an expedient job on restoring power after a tornado swept through downtown Fort Worth in March, Texas Utilities Electric (TX)

Vice President Joe Schneider, General Foreman Dean Delsman, Permissions Person Andy Lewis and Crews, for doing a great job mobilizing and getting damaged trees out of the way to restore electricity after a May 12 storm, Wisconsin Public Service (WI)

-More-