2014 Annual Meeting Slideshow

Over 3,000 mem­bers reg­is­tered and an esti­mat­ed crowd of 8,000 enjoyed YEC’s 73rd Annu­al Meet­ing.

Pho­tos by Wal­ter All­read:

1. Rocky Roberts and his pal Peach­es were back again, among the ear­ly arrivals for the 2014 YEC Annu­al Meet­ing of Mem­bers.
2. Zale Hart, almost 2, proves he is a “Dirt Expert,” play­ing in the sand with recy­cled laun­dry deter­gent caps at the York Coun­ty Sol­id Waste Col­lec­tion and Recy­cling Depart­men­t’s table.
3. Phoebe Nance, 5, and sis­ter Lenna, 3, col­or with recy­cled crayons as Leslie Hatch­ell from the Recy­cling Depart­ment helps. They were also good at the corn­hole game, toss­ing small pack­ets of recy­cled items of vary­ing weights.
4. York Com­pre­hen­sive High School stu­dents in the JROTC pro­gram made hot­dogs by the hun­dreds – and some, like Katt Riley, left, con­duct­ed taste tests to ensure a qual­i­ty prod­uct.
5. Abduh-Rah­man Bar­ton, 18 months, with his mom Ami­nah Bar­ton and grand­moth­er, Nan­cy Nel­son.
6. Angel Milem saw a fun­nel cake and decid­ed she just had to have one!
7. Reid Scott, 10, is in full flight on the slide.
8. Nathan David­son, 8, dives through the inflat­able obsta­cle course.
9. Twins Kay­dence (in pink) and Riley (in blue) McClure, 5, prac­tice with their YEC yo-yos.
10. The Byars fam­i­ly – dad Jody, Ivan, 3, mom Cheryl and Leah, 5 – had a hot­dog pic­nic on the grass.
11. Ivan Byars enjoys his hot­dog.
12. Bob­by Sim­mons (fore­ground) was one of many YEC mem­bers who signed cards ask­ing the fed­er­al Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency not to take steps that could dras­ti­cal­ly raise pow­er bills.
13. Leon Mar­tin has his Boston ter­ri­er, Harley, 8 months, in train­ing, he says, to ride with him on his motor­cy­cle.
14. Car­o­line Andrychows­ki checked out the Chevy Volt plug-in elec­tric car. She liked it but the Prius dri­ver says she plans to buy a Tes­la.
15. Bri­an­na Carter, 16, was on Snapchat while she walked around with her sis­ter, Lac­ie Hill, 9.
16. There was a lot to see for Boone, a yel­low Lab, who came with Steve Tremount.
17. The meet­ing’s a good place to catch up with friends and neigh­bors. Here’s Robert L. Wilks (left) with his broth­er-in-law, James Ken­non.
18. Adri­on Craw­ford, 4, enjoyed some ice cream.
19. Rebec­ca Ander­son (left) leaned against the bay door to enjoy the view – unaware that we were watch­ing her peo­ple-watch from the oth­er side!
20. The Car­oli­na Rhythm Band enter­tained.
21. When are Kansas and Savan­na in the same place? When it’s time to dance at YEC! That’s Kansas Nor­ris, 3, (left) with Savan­na Stew­art, 4.
22. Hen­der­son Bor­ders, a WWII vet­er­an who went on the first coop­er­a­tive-spon­sored Hon­or Flight in 2012, was the old­est mem­ber at the meet­ing – he’s 93.
23. Des­tiny and Chris Bolin were the newest new­ly­weds at the meet­ing. They’d only been mar­ried a few weeks at the time of the meet­ing.
24. As the busi­ness por­tion of the meet­ing gets under way, state Sen. Wes Hayes gives the bene­dic­tion.
25. YEC employ­ee Shari Propst sings a beau­ti­ful “God Bless Amer­i­ca.”
26. U.S. Rep. Mick Mul­vaney presents a copy of the con­gres­sion­al res­o­lu­tion that named March 31, 2014 Nation­al Line­man Appre­ci­a­tion Day to YEC’s Lar­ry Sanders, rep­re­sent­ing all co-op linework­ers.
27. Oper­a­tion Round Up trust board Chair­man Dale Pos­ton urges mem­bers to sup­port the pro­gram, which ben­e­fits local peo­ple in need and worth­while local caus­es.
28. Tess Bold­ing, 11, has all the pow­er as she draws tick­ets for the prizes.
29. With a full-house, the crowd lis­tens close­ly for their num­ber to be called.
30. This young had the best seat in the house.
31. Among the win­ners was Phil Gas­ton, with his son, Bradley, 5.
32. Martha J. Kei­th wins a Kin­dle Fire HD.
33. E.L. Ellis wins a K‑Cup sin­gle-serv­ing cof­fee mak­er.
34. Ter­ry Cook Jr., with his son, Collin, 3, and the grand-prize truck Ter­ry won.
35. Mar­tin Starks Jr. won the John Deere rid­ing mow­er and prompt­ly gave it to his mama, Novis Walk­er, as a Moth­er’s Day gift. And, Mar­tin said, he’ll still cut her grass for her! Sweet.