HIGHSCHOOLERS GET CHANCE TO SEE WASHINGTON

Citizens Electric Corp. will send two high school juniors on an all-expense-paid tour of Washington, D.C., June 13-18, as the grand prize of the 1993 Youth Tour essay contest.

All high school juniors who attend school in Citizens Electric's service area are eligible to enter the contest.

Contestants are required to enter a typed, 500-750-word essay on the subject, "What Would Have Happened to Rural Missouri Without Rural Electrification?"

Resource materials for the essays are available through the English departments at area high schools and at CEC's Ste. Genevieve office.

Essays will be judged on the basis of knowledge of subject, originality, composition, grammar and neatness. The deadline for entries is March 19.

The students with the top eight scores will be asked to present their essays orally before a panel of judges. Final judging will be in Perryville on April 6.

"Youth Tour 93" winners will travel by plane with a delegation of about 70 other Missouri juniors to the capital where they will meet with over 1,200 Youth Tour winners from 38 states.

During the Youth Tour, delegates will have the opportunity to tour historical monuments, visit their congressman, sit in on Senate sessions, attend plays, cruise down the Potomac and tour the White House.

Two other finalists will receive an all-expense-paid trip to Farmland Industries' Youth Leadership Conference at William Jewel College in Liberty, Mo., June 7-12.

A $50 savings bond will be awarded to all four finalists.

For more information, contact Frank Kirchmer at CEC's member services department in Ste. Genevieve at 883-3511.