Arbor Day is celebrated every year on the last Friday in April. Unfortunately, COVID-19 caused the City of Chillicothe’s annual celebration to be postponed. If the event was going to happen this year – and it finally did, on Oct. 9 – there was no way Rich Simpson was going to miss it. Simpson is …
In his 23-year-career with AEP Ohio, Distribution System Supervisor Fred Walter has been around: Columbus, Athens, Lancaster and Crooksville. He has seen enough to appreciate the enduring safety success of McConnelsville Service Center. Walter started leading the garage in January and got to witness the team hit a huge milestone: 45 years without an employee …
Jamie is a lineworker at the Delaware Service Center. His wife is a breast cancer survivor. He talks about AEP Ohio’s Pink Hat Initiative and why it’s so important for our employees to wear pink throughout Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
We constantly remind customers about the dangers of downed power lines. Often it’s on social media or through public safety campaigns; sometimes, we have to make these pleas in person. Todd Woodrow, a customer design supervisor, and Dan Newhouse, a senior engineer, spent much of June 11 assessing damage caused by a powerful wind storm …
Derek Goodburn works in the storeroom providing materials and equipment for AEP Ohio’s Columbus District. He’s also a traditional Guardsman serving part-time with the U.S. National Guard. So when Gov. Mike DeWine deployed these citizen soldiers to provide support in combatting the pandemic, Goodburn began a leave of absence with AEP and faithfully assumed his …
Before he was an AEP Ohio lineworker, Cody Grilliot was a linebacker on the Ohio University football team. During his time there, one of his coaches – who had leukemia – gave a speech about the lifesaving potential of joining the Gift of Life bone marrow and stem cell registry. So Grilliot filled out some …
