Iowa Electric Cooperative Living

11/21/2025

Send us your favorite pizza and pasta recipes this month! If we print yours in the March issue, you'll receive a $25 bill credit from your Iowa electric cooperative. Details at https://www.ieclmagazine.com/recipes/recipe-submissions

11/13/2025

Did you snap some photos of the Northern Lights earlier this week? Send us your rural Iowa sky photos for consideration in our January issue! We want to feature reader-submitted, rural skyscapes, and we'll give you $100 if we use your photo on the cover! Search your camera roll and email photos to [email protected] by Nov. 28.

Special thanks to Marena Fritzler, marketing director at Corn Belt Power Cooperative, for sharing this stunning photo which features a 161 kV transmission line in Humboldt County.

11/10/2025

If you enjoy baking during the holidays, our November editor's choice contest is for you! Enter for a chance to win a Williams Sonoma cookie press set with 13 interchangeable discs and a nontick cookie sheet at: https://www.ieclmagazine.com/editors-choice-contest

10/21/2025

Readers: Don't forget to enter by Oct. 31 for a chance to win this 7-piece Lodge cast iron skillet set! The set includes: 8-inch and 10¼-inch skillets, 10½-inch diameter griddle, 6-inch square red silicone potholder, red silicone handle cover, red pan scraper, and black silicone grill-pan scraper. https://www.ieclmagazine.com/editors-choice-contest

10/14/2025

Calling all Cajun recipes! Send us your favorite recipe by October 31. If we print yours in the February issue, you'll receive a $25 bill credit from your Iowa electric cooperative! Details at https://www.ieclmagazine.com/recipes/recipe-submissions

10/07/2025

Calling all chefs! Our October editor's choice contest is right up your alley - enter for a chance to win a 7-piece Lodge skillet set! The set includes 8-inch and 10¼-inch skillets, 10½-inch griddle, 6-inch square red silicone potholder, red silicone handle cover, red pan scraper and black silicone grill-pan scraper. Enter at https://www.ieclmagazine.com/editors-choice-contest by October 31.

If you receive electricity from an Iowa electric cooperative, you're eligible to enter our monthly contest!

09/23/2025

Calling all shutterbugs! Do you have a rural Iowa holiday photo that might work for the December cover of Iowa Electric Cooperative Living magazine? Email your photos by Oct. 10 to [email protected] and we'll give you $100 if we use yours!

09/17/2025

We've got a great prize this month, just in time for fall! Enter by Sept. 30 for a chance to win a Worx 13-amp electric leaf mulcher, which can turn 11 bags of leaves and debris into one. This tool features a clean air motor cooling system, enabling it to run at peak efficiency and keep mulching up to 53 gallons of leaves per minute. Enter at https://www.ieclmagazine.com/editors-choice-contest.

08/19/2025

In the heat of summer, we're planning ahead for the holidays! We're asking readers to send their favorite holiday appetizer recipes by Aug. 31; if we publish your recipe in the December issue, you'll receive a $25 bill credit from your Iowa electric cooperative! Details at https://www.ieclmagazine.com/recipes/recipe-submissions

08/15/2025

WOW! We received 88 nominations of deserving community volunteers during the month of June for our 5th annual Shine the Light contest in June! We'll announce our 3 winning volunteers in the September issue, who will each receive a $3,000 donation to their local charity. In the meantime, take a look at who was nominated within your electric co-op service area: https://www.ieclmagazine.com/featured-articles/2025-shine-the-light-nominees-announced

And THANK YOU to all 88 nominators for taking time to recognize these important hometown heroes!

08/07/2025

Ice, ice baby! This month, readers can register online for a chance to win an Igloo ice maker! This Igloo Automatic Portable Countertop Ice Maker looks good on a countertop while producing ice whenever you need it. Keep the 2.5-quart water tank filled and this unit will produce 33 pounds of ice in a 24-hour period. Register at https://www.ieclmagazine.com/editors-choice-contest by the end of the month!

08/01/2025

Here's a sneak peek of our August issue, coming to your mailbox next week. Special thanks to Lindsey Wulff, a member-consumer of Butler County REC, for sending in this heartwarming photo! If you have photos of rural Iowa to share, send them to us at [email protected]. If we publish your photo on a future cover, you'll receive $100!