<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none">A big, well-deserved congratulations to Sacred Wind
Communications, Inc., which has been voted the national winner of the Shine a
Light contest.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><a href="http://shinealight.ivillage.com/sbo-profile/?ProfileID=8923">http://shinealight.ivillage.com/sbo-profile/?ProfileID=8923</a>?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none">--------<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none">The following is from John Badal, Sacred Wind CEO:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none">You’ve no doubt seen that Sacred Wind won the Shine a
Light contest. Thank you so much for your help in getting out the vote.
It is gratifying to see that a little company as ours, with our special
mission, won 1st place above other deserving companies. We also consider
it an affirmation of what we and other rural telecomm carriers and our vendors
do on a day to day basis, with little to no fanfare, in support of our rural customers
and our local communities. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none">As the winner in the American Express/NBC Universal
Shine a Light contest, we will receive a cash award of $50,000 and an
additional $50,000 in marketing support from American Express. As
promised, we intend to channel half of the cash award to our nonprofit’s
scholarship fund and will use the remainder of the cash award to complement the
marketing assistance that American Express will offer to help achieve our
service objectives. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none">Again, thanks for all your help.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none">John<o:p></o:p></p>
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