WEST JEFFERSON--The 51st Annual Meeting of SkyLine Membership Corporation is scheduled for Saturday, October 6, at Ashe County High School in West Jefferson. SkyLine customers who have active memberships in the cooperative are invited.

Member registration begins in the commons area at 9:30 a.m., followed by the business meeting in the auditorium at 10:30 a.m. The business meeting will include reports from officers, election of directors and recognition of participants of the following SkyLine youth programs: the Frank James-SkyLine Scholarship, Foundation for Rural Service Scholarship, N.C./S.C. Cooperative Leadership Conference and Foundation for Rural Service (FRS) Youth Tour. The following SkyLine directors have been nominated for election to the board for a three-year term: R.C. Mitchell (Alleghany County) and J.L. Shumate (Johnson County).

Additionally, SkyLine, SkyBest and Carolina West Wireless will feature product/service displays in the commons area. At the close of the business meeting, several door prizes will be awarded, including the grand prize: a new laptop computer and a year of free SkyBest High-Speed Internet service (1.5 Mbps).

From 10 a.m. until the close of the business meeting, children's activities will feature balloon costumes by Tommy Rash, and face painting, provided by the Ashe County High School Art Department. Following these activities, a complimentary barbecue lunch catered by Smoky Mountain Barbecue will be served to SkyLine members in the school cafeteria. Entertainment at this year's meeting will feature bluegrass music by the Ashe County Bluegrass Band, who will perform during registration in the auditorium and at lunch in the cafeteria.

Established in 1951, SkyLine is among the state's nine rural telephone cooperatives, serving over 36,000 access lines across a five-county region in northwest North Carolina and east Tennessee.

For more information about the Annual Meeting, please call your local SkyLine Customer Service Center at 1-800-759-2226.