By: Diane Benjamin

Last Friday I attended this meeting. Lots of people attended.

The meeting opened with a 14 year old singing our national anthem. Next an employee and veteran led the crowd in saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Another employee led the group in prayer after that.

Nobody protested, I didn’t see anyone not participating. It’s awesome to see traditional American values not erased.

Since Corn Belt is owned by customers, money is sometimes returned to them. This summer they are sending $15 million back to customers.

$15,000,000!

Since Corn Belt buys electricity from Wabash in Indiana they don’t have to deal with the Net Zero policies of Illinois that increase the costs to customers. Corn Belt does have a small solar farm that does nothing but charge large batteries. Those batteries might keep the power on for a couple hours if there is an outage.

Generators work better. We have one that is used maybe once a year. Keeping the power on isn’t a problem we’ve had in the country. The tornado that did damage in town earlier this year did have their crews hustling on GE road. I think it was reported power was out in that area for 24 hours because polls needed replaced.

These meetings are made enjoyable. It wonderful to see a company that isn’t afraid to show their beliefs in public – including patriotism.