The Ekalaka Eagle - Your Community Builder

Whitney Hamblin was attending Southeast Electric Cooperative's 75th Annual Meeting earlier this summer when a chance conversation with an old friend and current Ekalaka Public Schools teacher, Amy Walker, led to her eventually applying for the open music teacher position. Hamblin was living in Bloomington, Indiana and traveled to Ekalaka to attend the meeting since it was her father's last meeting as the coop's manager. In fact, her entire family attended and provided the musical entertainment for the occasion.

Hamblin first came to Ekalaka from Star Valley, Wyoming in the seventh grade. Sh...