THE MAGAZINE FOR COOPERATIVE MEMBERS
VOLUME 74 • NUMBER 5
(ISSN 0047-486X, USPS 316-240)
Read in more than 600,000 homes and businesses and published monthly except in December by
The Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina, Inc. 808 Knox Abbott Drive Cayce, SC 29033
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Keith Phillips
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 Simple steps your family can take to use less energy—and lower utility bills—when you’re spending more time at home.
17 Saving Jamestown
One Pee Dee family keeps a 150-year-old legacy of freedom and self-suffiffifficiency alive with the Jamestown Foundation.
4 CO-OP NEWS
Updates from your cooperative
6 AGENDA
See how Carolyn Zheng, a fififth grader at Gold Hill Elementary School in Fort Mill, won the 2020 Children’s Book Challenge.
8 DIALOGUE
Praying for something better
With important issues stalled in the General Assembly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, electric cooperatives remain committed to doing what’s best for our members.
10 SMART CHOICE
Now we’re cooking
Have more fun in the kitchen with cooking gadgets that let you chop, blend, fry and bake your way to culinary perfection.
15 SC STORIES
Lights, camera, bake!
Spend some time in the kitchen with Elise Sammis, a contestant on Season 8 of Food Network’s
Kids Baking Championship.
22 RECIPE
On the side
Summer’s almost here, so use these tasty recipes
for delicious sides to complement whatever is sizzling away on the grill.
26 MARKETPLACE
27 SC HOME
Five features homeowners crave
Get more joy out of your next home remodeling project with advice from professional renovation experts.
28 GARDENER
The late show: marvelous moonvine Nighttime is the right time to enjoy the fragrant blooms of this intriguing garden beauty.
30 HUMOR ME
Self-isolation for dummies
Have the last laugh at the coronavirus with our humor columnist’s thoughts on the hidden benefifits of spending too much time at home.
Michael Crutcher, a Frederick Douglass reenactor, enthralled visitors at the 2019 Celebrate Jamestown Reunion with his stories of the life and times of the passionate abolitionist. Photo by Andrew Haworth.
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SC SCENE
Lower your utility bills SC RECIPE Tasty
barbecue sides
Explore the past African American history in the Pee Dee
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