COLUMBIA — In the town of Yei in Sudan, neighborhood children were playing among the newly installed streetlights near their homes. Three Boone Electric Cooperative linemen, Steve Baumgartner, Jimmy Goodnight and Jamie Conrow, had made a rare nighttime trip out of their housing compound to watch.
Three Boone Electric linemen return from Sudan volunteer mission
Monday, February 25, 2008 | 1:36 p.m. CST;
updated 11:04 a.m. CDT, Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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