The “Savannah Electric Ultimate Unioneers” will take on the “Savannah Electric Magic Managers” this evening in a basketball game to benefit the March of Dimes. The game will begin at 7:00 p.m., April 6, in the Shuman Middle School gym at 415 Goebel Ave. The public is invited. Employees will collect a $2 donation at the door ($1 for children under 12).

Each year, Savannah Electric employees participate in various activities to raise funds for the company’s March of Dimes campaign leading up to the community-wide WalkAmerica event on Saturday April 24, 1999. This year, in addition to “Blue Jeans for Babies Days,” Friday afternoon ice cream sales, cookouts, a putting tournament, and other activities, the basketball game was included.

Union employees comprise one team with various company managers making up the other. The fun but competitive event reprises similar competitions held some years ago.

Shuman Middle School is one of Savannah Electric’s two business partnership schools. The company and the school have worked well together since the relationship was established in 1983.

Savannah Electric serves 125,000 customers in a five-county area of Southeast Georgia. Savannah Electric is a subsidiary of Southern Company. Southern Company (NYSE: SO), the largest producer of electricity in the United States, is the parent firm of Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, Mississippi Power and Savannah Electric. Based in Atlanta, Southern Company, through its Southern Energy Inc. subsidiary, supplies electricity in 10 countries on four continents. Southern Company also provides energy-related marketing, trading and technical services, and Southern LINC wireless telecommunications.