Eight Missouri River Energy Services employees were recognized with Peer Ovation With Earned Recognition (POWER) awards. 

Given once a year, the POWER Award is the highest form of employee recognition at MRES. The awards were presented during a board-employee luncheon Dec. 4 at the Hilton Garden Inn Downtown in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Here are details on the award recipients:
•    Blaire Andrews, HRIS administrator; Char Roth, director of accounting; and Pauline Roberts, senior accountant, for their work integrating a new payroll processing system to ensure employees have access to up-to-date information.
•    Andrew Johnson, member services coordinator; Braydon Ripka, apprentice lineworker – Luverne; and Clay Welchlin, journey lineworker – Jackson, for all the coordination, dedication and follow-up with regard to the Light Up Navajo Project.
•    Marisa Quick, human resources coordinator, for her willingness to step into the executive assistant role without hesitation and keep things afloat in addition to her human resources duties.
•    Deven Houselog, facility services coordinator, for his dedication to ensuring the building addition was a success.

MRES is an organization of 61 member municipalities that own and operate their own electric distribution systems. MRES is governed by a 13-member board of directors who are elected by and from the ranks of member representatives.
 

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