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Love of nature blazes career for ‘Ranger Jen’ By SARAH COYNE | sarah@appenmedia.com
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Milton Outdoor Recreation Supervisor “Ranger” Jen Young stands on the dock at Lake Providence.
MILTON, Ga. — Every day is a new adventure for Milton’s Outdoor Recreation Supervisor Jen Young. Young, better known as Ranger Jen, wears many hats in her role connecting the community with the outdoors. Residents can find Young in her office, outdoors exploring, walking or sketching in her notebook. Her journey with the great outdoors began when she as a little girl. Young lived in a small town in central Michigan, just off a river. She spent most of her days outdoors in the woods. “Back in the early ’90s, when we didn't have technology like we do now, you were forced outside, so I took to it,” Young said. She took her love for the outdoors and got a degree in Parks, Recreation and Leisure Studies from Central Michigan University. She continued on to get her masters in higher education and leadership from Armstrong State University. After moving to Georgia in 2008, she worked 10 years as a program director and youth development director at the YMCA in Atlanta.
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Georgia Power plans for huge escalation in energy demand By Emily Jones WABE ATLANTA — Georgia’s largest electric utility is preparing to meet what it says is a huge spike in new electricity demand. Georgia
Power says it expects it will need to provide 8,200 more megawatts by 2031 – about four times the energy made by its new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle. A key factor driving Georgia Power’s plans is the enormous growth in need the
company says it expects over the next few years from large industrial customers — especially data centers. But some critics argue Georgia Power’s predictions are too high. Energy experts testifying before the Georgia Public Service
Commission this week cast doubt on Georgia Power’s prediction of a massive, rapid increase in energy demand — known as load.
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