Area Students Tour DC With NOVEC Delegation

MANASSAS, VA—Five area high school students sponsored by the Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative recently joined other students in the region on the 2019 Youth Tour of Washington, D.C. NOVEC's students: Annalee Hunniford (Forest Park High School), Audrey Fisher (Kettle Run), Victoria Baker (Seton), Kiley Smith (Patriot) and Maliha Qureshi (Stonewall Jackson).

They were with around 1,800 other students from across the U.S. at the June 16-20 tour, organized by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

According to a release, the students learned about cooperatives, toured the Capitol building and met with their congressional representatives. They also visited Arlington National Cemetery, the Pentagon, and the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial. The NOVEC group will visit Richmond in February to learn about government at the state level and meet with their representatives in the Virginia General Assembly.

"We had an exceptional group of young people on this year's tour," Andrew Vehorn, vice president of governmental affairs at the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives and Youth Tour director, said in the release. "They were enthusiastic and energetic, and even though we did our best to tire them out, they enjoyed experiences that will serve them and their cooperative communities well into the future."

About NOVEC
NOVEC is a not-for-profit electric utility corporation that supplies and distributes electricity and energy-related services to more than 170,000 metered customers in Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, Stafford, and Clarke counties, the Town of Clifton, and the City of Manassas Park. It is one of the largest electric companies of its kind in the nation. For more information, visit www.novec.com or call 703-335-0500 or 1-888-335-0500.

About VMDAEC
The Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperative represents NOVEC and 14 other co-ops that distribute electricity to consumers in the three states. Based in Glen Allen, Virginia, VMDAEC provides government relations, expertise, safety and employee training, and other services. For more information, visit www.vmdaec.com.