Long Creek Blue Ridge customer snares grand prize

A Long Creek customer of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative was grand prize winner in this week’s festivities for Blue Ridge’s annual membership meeting.  Alton Barnett II won a 2009 Ford F-150 pickup truck.  He and some 6,400 Blue Ridge customers registered this week for the annual meeting, highlighted by the CEO’s report.  Incumbent members of the board of directors were all re-elected without opposition.  Jim Lovingood, president/CEO, covered economic development, along with word that about four thousand locations have been connected to a new broadband fiber system and thousands more are expected to be made customers by year’s end.