The seventh cooperative principle is Concern for Community
Pictured from left to right is Blake Massey, Ann
Marie Covington (undergraduate at A-State), Kyle Edmonds (USFS), Heather Custer (A-State graduate student) with a guano collector
It has been nearly a year since Craighead Electric Cooperative, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Arkansas State University, and others teamed up on a conservation initiative to help an endangered native bat species in Arkansas and the biologists working on the project have some exciting news to share.
Craighead Electric staff assist in the installation of an artificial bat habitat.
Craighead Electric Cooperative teams up with community partners to assist in the conservation of the endangered Indiana bat erecting new habitat for a colony located in the Shirey Bay Rainey Brake Wildlife Management Area near Strawberry.
In 2018, the Co-Op Cares campaign was launched as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It is an employee-sponsored community fund with the mission to support various local charitable organizations. It does not receive any funding from Craighead Electric or its members. Employee contribution is voluntary, but Co-Op Cares currently benefits from over 90% employee participation.
Operation Razorback 2018
Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas linemen, including Terry Harkey with Craighead Electric of Jonesboro, recently completed a mission to electrify two remote Guatemalan villages near the Mexican border, resulting in approximately 105 villagers having electricity for the first time.
Shannon Strope (foreground left) and the rest of the crew pose after a hard days work.
Thirteen Arkansas Electric Cooperative linemen have returned from rural Bolivia where they set off to bring power to three remote villages.
Craighead Electric Lineman, Devin Tate, Aaron Yearta, Martin Dorton, and Aaron Dillehay install tornado sirens for the City of Brookland.
Craighead Electric Cooperative recently assisted the City of Brookland in the installation of two tornado sirens.According to Brian Duncan, CEO of Craighead Electric, the effort is part of the cooperative’s…
