Isn’t it a great time of the year? Springtime, green grass, farmers preparing to go to the field, NWREC’s four District Meetings and the start of golf season. In all seriousness, we did have four very good district meetings during the last week of March and first week of April. Over 2,300 members and guests attended and enjoyed a very good meal, short information meeting and outstanding family entertainment with the Brown Family.

We were very pleased with the attendance and have received many very nice comments from members. If you attended one of the meetings, we want to thank you for taking time from your busy schedule to join us. We hope you enjoyed it. If you weren’t able to join us this year, we hope you will consider attending next year. The success of your Cooperative is dependent on the support we receive from the members and your attendance at one of our District Meetings, is a strong indication of the support we are so fortunate to have.

As a member-owned organization, our members have the opportunity and important responsibility of electing directors at our district meetings. To maximize the amount of member involvement in this very important process, the Cooperative’s By-Laws allows for voting by mail. Members can also vote at the District Meeting if they have not previously voted by mail.

The results of the director elections this year were as follows:

District I (Sioux) - Jeff Rehder was re-elected

District II (O’Brien) - Tom Wagner was re-elected

District III (Plymouth) - Steve Brown was re-elected

District IV (Ida) - Charlie Rohlf was re-elected

We extend our congratulations to each these directors for being re-elected to three year terms and we want to thank the following members for their willingness to be a candidate for a director position this year: Tom Kellen, Lon Vogt, Kenneth Less and Clark Conover.

At all four meetings a 20 inch flat screen high definition TV was given away. Congratulations to the following winners.

• Dist.1(Sioux) - Jim Vander Schaaf
• Dist. 2(O’Brien - Dan Pohlen
• Dist. 3(Plymouth) - Francis Meister
• Dist. 4(Ida) - Howard Johnson

We are a consumer-owned rural electric cooperative distribution utility that provides electric service to over 9,000 accounts. Our members are made up of farm, residential, commercial, industrial and irrigation customers, and are the reason we exist. We strive to provide our members with reliable rural electric power that is competitively priced and other services that enhance their quality of life.

While the majority of our service territory is in Sioux, O'Brien, Plymouth and Ida Counties in northwest Iowa, our service area also extends into Lyon, Osceola, Clay, Cherokee, Sac, Crawford and Woodbury Counties. Our service area has grown through the years, due to consolidations of smaller Rural Electric Cooperatives. We have three offices and four service centers. Our newest building, the Orange City headquarters, was built in 2001. Walk-in office hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday thru Friday. Customers may call us at 1-800-383-0476. To report an outage after hours, please call 1-800-766-2099.

Due by the 10th of each month. To submit your monthly meter readings directly to North West REC, please include the following information. Use the TAB key to move from field to field. * Denotes Required Fields.