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Cornhole Tournament a win for players and for charity
The bags were flying in Live Oak as SVEC hosted the ninth annual Suwannee Valley Cornhole Tournament on May 16. The event raised more than $4,300 for the United Way of Suwannee Valley, which provides vital funding, resources and support to families and fellow nonprofits across Suwannee, Lafayette, Hamilton and Columbia counties.
The tournament is divided into two brackets, recreational and competitive, ensuring people of all skill levels enjoy the day. Medals were awarded to first-, second- and third-place winners in each bracket.
In the recreational bracket, the top award went to the Happy Hill team, TJ McCloud and Robert. Second-place honors were earned by the Moon Risin’ Farm Flippets, otherwise known as Thomas Iannucci and Mike Cosner, and third prize was awarded to The Finishers, Tima Robinson and Dexter Dye, making their tournament debut.
Competitive bracket winners were the Soggy Bottom Boys, Kidd McCloud and Bear Izell, champions in the recreational bracket for the previous three years. The Beardmen, Brandon F. and Chad Henry, finished second, and the Taylor JT team of Donald Tucker and Jimmy Wallace took third.
bracket were Happy Hill, Moon Risin' Farm
Flippets and The Finishers.
the Soggy Bottom Boys, the Beardmen and
Taylor JT.
SVEC is thankful to the businesses and individuals who have joined us year after year, including our tournament sponsors: Seminole Electric Cooperative, First Federal Bank, SunStop Stores, Poole Realty, Cornerstone Clinic and Rapid Fiber Internet. The initial total of $2,181 raised from tournament participants was matched by CoBank through its Sharing Success grant.
The tournament is a fun and positive environment, but most importantly, it’s making a difference in the lives of others.
Youngsters get powerful lessons
SVEC lineworkers demonstrated their many tools of the trade, including the gear that keeps them safe, as part of a fun lesson to youngsters at Branford Public Library about power-line safety. The June 9 visit was part of Suwannee River Regional Library System’s Dig. Read. Discover. summer reading program, which runs through July 18.
Co-ops unite to address BEAD concerns
SVEC joined NRECA CEO Jim Matheson and a few other distribution cooperatives in a virtual media event ahead of NRECA’s 2027 broadband summit to discuss recent policy changes to the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program, better known as BEAD. Matheson expresses concern over ever-changing rules that make it hard for co-ops to participate in the program. “It adds to confusion, it adds to delay, it adds to cost,” he says.
Co-ops like SVEC have done the research and know fiber is a future-proof technology that can help our communities grow and prosper as they should. We want to see public policy support it.