Hickman Elected To Statewide Office
 DeRidder, LA -- J.R. “Ronnie” Hickman, secretary-treasurer of the Beauregard Electric Cooperative, Inc. (BECi) board of directors, was re-elected president for a third term of the Association of Louisiana Electric Cooperatives, Inc. (ALEC) at the group’s annual meeting held July 24-25 in Baton Rouge. Hickman, a retired educator from Beauregard Parish, is a NRECA Credential Cooperative Director and a member of Grace Church in DeRidder. A charter member and past president of the Beauregard Parish Association of Professional Educators in Louisiana, Hickman is also a board member of the state association. He is also a 32nd degree Mason and Shriner and past board member of the High School FFA Rodeo Assn., Beauregard Farm Bureau, Beauregard Fair Board and the Beauregard Cattleman’s Assn.
Mike Heinen, general manager of Jefferson Davis Electric Cooperative in Jennings was re-elected vice-president while Point Coupee Electric Co-op director Jimmy Ewing was elected secretary-treasurer.
The association, composed of 10 Louisiana electric cooperatives, is a statewide organization that provides regulatory support, education, public relations, safety/loss control, legislative, legal and a variety of communications services to its member electric cooperatives.
Among the statewide programs that cooperatives participate in through ALEC is the Lower Operating Cost (LOE) energy conservation program, the Gift of Learning public education enhancement program, the annual Washington D.C. Rural Electric Youth Tour and assorted 4-H, FFA and community involvement efforts.
ALEC is also active in consumer protection issues, electric utility reliability, economic development efforts and job creation programs that benefit rural areas across the state. The statewide organization like the electric cooperatives it serves is dedicated to advancing “quality of life” programs that benefit electric co-op members in Louisiana.
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