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Stock art. Grand Junction is a town that loves its baseball. Read more starting on page 16.
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Treat mom to a special breakfast in
bed this Mother’s Day
A few changes can help pollinators
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Electric co-ops meet the challenge
of providing reliable electricity
25 Energy Tips
29 Funny Stories
30Discoveries
16 For the Love of Baseball
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Co-ops Vote
Make sure you are ready to cast your ballot in this fall’s elections
BY KENT SINGER
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CREA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
We take a lot of things for
granted in this country. We
just assume that when we
walk into grocery stores,
we’ll be able to choose from
an incredible variety of fresh
produce, meat and dairy
products. We assume further
that whenever we pull up to
Kent Singer
a gas station, we can buy as
much gasoline as we need, to go wherever
we want. We know that every morning
when we get up to start our day, the lights
in the house will come on, the furnace
and air conditioner will keep us comfortable and most of us will have clean water
to drink and food in the refrigerator.
We assume that in most cases the traffic lights will work and the roads, while
sometimes congested and in need of
repair, are still adequate to get us to our
offices, schools or other destinations and
back home again. While we’re moving
about our communities to do our daily
work, we assume that we are protected
by our law enforcement officers and first
responders and know that if we need help,
it is generally just a phone call away.
We assume that our elected leaders
and governmental institutions, while
certainly imperfect, will continue to
protect our freedoms and look out for
those among us who need a hand up. Most
importantly, we assume that our votes
will count in local, state and national
elections and that the leaders we elect are
legitimately empowered to represent us.
But in order for our votes to be counted,
we have to take the time to vote. Do you
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know what percentage
of voting-age Americans
voted in the last presidential
election? According to a
study done last year by the
Pew Research Center, voter
turnout in the United States
in the 2012 presidential
election was 53.6 percent.
(That is 129.1 million votes
cast for president out of an estimated
voting-age population of 241 million.)
So, just over half of the eligible voters in the United States voted in the 2012
presidential election. And while that
number is not significantly different than
in past elections (and, in fact, higher than
elections in years without a presidential election), it strikes me that it is still
a shockingly low number and one that
all Americans should seek to improve.
To that end, our national trade association, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, came up with a program
that it calls “Co-ops Vote.” The intent of
the program is simply to encourage all
Americans, and especially electric co-op
member-owners, to register and vote.
I believe that in most electric co-op
service territories across Colorado, our
member-owners already have a much
higher rate of civic participation, including voting, than most communities. Co-op folks are highly engaged in
political matters and more likely than
most to make the effort to vote. Nonetheless, if you have not registered to vote,
you can go to the web page vote.coop
and find out how to get registered.
Co-ops Vote is not a partisan political program. Neither NRECA nor
the Colorado Rural Electric Association
are advocating voting for any particular
candidate or party. We are encouraging
co-op member-owners to exercise their
precious right of the franchise. Even if,
like me, you are disgusted with the current level of “debate” in the presidential
campaign, remember that you will also be
voting for many state and local candidates
who will be deciding important policy
issues in Colorado for years to come.
It’s easy to take the simple task of
voting for granted since it’s a right that
is so engrained in our lives. From the
time we are children, we learn that
decisions are made in a democracy by
a vote of the people and that the right
to vote is as fundamental to our way of
life as freedom of speech and religion.
This right is not recognized in many
parts of the world. I am reminded of the
images that came out of Iraq a few years
ago where people who voted for the first
time in their lives proudly displayed the
purple ink on their fingers indicating they
voted. Thankfully, we don’t have to risk
our lives to exercise our right to vote.
We hope you will live up to the promise of Co-ops Vote and make your voice
heard this fall. As Benjamin Franklin
famously said, we only have this great
republic “if we can keep it.” Voting is the
one way to preserve our democracy.
Kent Singer, Executive Director
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Thanks for using my funny story (March
’16). You made my day. I’ve lived in
Fowler all my life. My husband and
I bought our place in 1953, so I have
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We regularly plug our LEAF into a
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The increase in our monthly electric
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May
May 6
Mancos
Mancos Valley Chorus Spring
Concert
Mancos United Methodist
Church • 7 pm • 970-946-1267
May 7
Alamosa
Generosity on Tap
San Luis Valley Brewing Company • 6 pm • 719-588-5678
May 7
Greeley
Kentucky Derby Gala
The Barn on Lily’s Pond • 2 pm
970-356-5000
May 7-8
Pueblo
Mother’s Day Weekend Special
Pueblo Zoo • 9 am-4 pm
pueblozoo.org
May 8
Mancos
Pictorial Copper Enameling
Class
Law Home Studio • 10 am-4 pm
schoolofthewest.org
May 12
Durango
“Strategies for More Efficient
Piecing” Quilting Class
First United Methodist Church
5:30 pm • 970-247-9704
May 14
Evergreen
Fly-Fishing Extravaganza
Blue Quill Angler • 9 am-4 pm
303-674-4700
May 14
Grand Lake
Gardeners’ Exchange
Grand Lake Community House
12-4 pm • 970-627-3435
May 14
Limon
Bingo
Hub City Senior Center • 2-5 pm
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May 14-15
Livermore
Craft and Art Show
Historic Livermore Community
Hall • 970-493-9262
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May 14
Loveland
Plant Sale/Antique and Artisan
Market
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
9 am-2 pm • 970-342-9341
May 14
Peetz
Energy Healing Class
Peetz Community Center • 9:30
am-12:30 pm • practicalnatural
life.com
May 14
Salida
Open House/Free Admission
Salida Museum • 11 am-5 pm
719-539-7483
May 14
Sterling
Tread for Trails Bike Ride
Pioneer Park • 9 am • 970-522-9700
May 15
Drake
Pancake Breakfast
Big Thompson Canyon
Association Building • 8 am-2 pm
bigthompsoncanyonassociation.org
May 20
Granby
Celebration of Charles Lindbergh Transatlantic Flight
Emily Warner Field Aviation
Museum • 11 am-2 pm
drpenny.hamilton@gmail.com
May 21
Colorado Springs
Colorado Craft Spirits Festival
Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater
6-9 pm • 719-255-3232
May 21
Grand Junction
Llama and Alpaca Show
Mesa County Fairgrounds
8 am-4 pm • cajwdj@aol.com
May 21
Silver Cliff and Westcliffe
Brew With a View and Vino, Too
Downtown • 1-5 pm • 719-371-3208
May 27
Fort Garland
Fun Fridays at the Fort
Fort Garland Museum & Pike’s
Stockade • 10:30 am-3 pm
719-379-3512
May 27
Granby
Around Granby History Author
Book Signing
City Market • 11 am-2 pm
drpenny.hamilton@gmail.com
B-17 War Bird Tours
and Flights
May 10, 10 am-5 pm,
at the Jet Center at
Colorado Springs Airport,
Colorado Springs
Don’t miss an opportunity to see one of the few remaining flyable
World War II B-17s. Tours of the B-17G Flying Fortress Aluminum
Overcast cost $10 per individual; $20 for families; free for military
and children under age 8. For a price of $409 to $475, guests can
even take a flight in this magnificent war bird. For more information, call 800-359-6217 or visit eaa72.org.
May 28
Castle Rock
Farm and Ranch Day
CALF’s Lowell Ranch
10 am-2 pm • thecalf.org
June 4
Falcon
Poker Run
Various Falcon locations • 9 am
719-270-0896
May 28
Grand Lake
Season Opening
Kauffman House Museum
11 am-5 pm • 970-627-8324
June 4
Fort Collins
“An Evening with Jack Slade &
Friends” Benefit
Hilton Hotel • 5:30-10 pm
970-495-1828
May 30
Grand Lake
Memorial Day Parade
Sombrero Stables to Grand
Avenue • 10-11 am • 970-627-3402
May 30
Howard
Memorial Day Pancake Breakfast • Howard Fire Station
7:30-10:30 am • 719-942-4213
June
June 3
Buena Vista
First Friday Wine Share
Casa Del Rio Clubhouse
6-7:30 pm • 1stfridaywineshare.com
June 3-4
Mancos
Radical Dimensions in Glass
Mosaic Class
Mancos School of the West • 9
am-5 pm • schoolofthewest.org
June 3
Pueblo
Ansel Adams Classic Images
Gala
Sangre de Cristo Arts and
Conference Center
719-295-7200 • sdc-arts.org
June 4
Glade Park
Cowboy Poetry and Music
Festival
Community Center • 5-8 pm
970-263-4803
June 4
Palmer Lake
Kids Fishing Derby
Palmer Lake • 8 am-12 pm
719-648-0241
June 4
Trinidad
Fishing Tournament
Monument Lake Resort • 9 am
719-868-2249
June 8-11
Cortez
Ute Mountain Roundup Rodeo
Various Cortez Locations
utemountainroundup.org
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EMPIRE ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, INC.
[Echoes of the Empire]
WHAT IS A GRID ACCESS CHARGE?
BY BOBBE JONES || MEMBER SERVICES MANAGER
I
In my experience, the grid access charge is
one of the most misunderstood parts of a
power bill. It is a fixed charge that is intended to
recover the costs the co-op incurs to build and
maintain the system that carries the electricity to your home or place of business. Even if a
single kilowatt is not moved over the wires, we
still face the expenses in keeping and maintaining the facilities that carry that energy.
On the right is an example of a residential
bill statement. This bill has three components
listed under New Charges. First is the fixed
component, or Grid Access Charge. The second line item is a variable component called All
kWh. This is your energy charge and represents
your kilowatt-hour usage times the current
residential kWh rate of .09599 cents. The third
component is the Power Cost Adjustment
Rate that allows Empire Electric Association
to reflect any changes in its costs to purchase
power from its wholesale provider, Tri-State
Generation and
Transmission Association. The PCA
rates can increase
or decrease annually depending on
whether or not the
purchased power
costs are recovered.
The grid access
charge is a flat,
monthly fee charged per meter, and it is not
dependent on how much energy you use. In
past years, the fixed charge was called a basic
charge and then a facilities charge. The intention when changing the name to a grid access
charge is to better identify its purpose, which
is to cover the basic costs of keeping energy
flowing from the electric grid to your home or
business.
As cooperative members, we benefit from
having reliable electric service available when
we want it, and the grid access charge ensures
that all of us pay our fair share of the basic
costs – costs that exist whether or not a single
kWh is used.
A common question is, “Why do some
rate classes pay a
different grid access
charge than others?”
The answer is that
the required facilities
tend to differ among
different consumer
classes. Commercial
accounts require
large transformers, more expensive metering
and often require three-phase service and
specialized equipment. For this reason, large
commercial accounts require a higher monthly
facility charge than residential and general
service single-phase accounts.
For more insight into what is included in the
grid access charge, the expense items listed here
are included:
The grid access charge
ensures that your
expectations for continuous
power and outstanding
customer service are met.
•
Maintenance items like trucks, wire,
power poles and labor needed to build
and maintain the electric distribution
system
• Upgrades that keep pace with increased system investments to improve
reliability
• Implementing new technologies to
provide increased reliability and operational efficiencies, such as the outage
management system and advanced
metering
• Liability insurance, interest, taxes,
emergency storm restoration, billing
costs, processing payments, meter
reads, and more.
The grid access charge ensures that your
expectations for continuous power and outstanding customer service are met. It gives each
member a fair and equal share of the cooperative’s operation. It provides funds that must be
invested now to maintain the quality, reliability
and integrity of services that our members have
traditionally counted on and come to expect.
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The last few months brought many changes in our co-op employees
list. We have some new faces, promotions, a retirement, and job
changes we want to share with you. Congratulations to all of these
employees.
Loretta Howe started with EEA as a custodian on November 2,
2015, and was promoted to facilities coordinator on April 6, 2016.
Jules Bitsilly accepted the safety and compliance administrator
position. Jules comes from Las Vegas, Nevada, and began his new
position on April 18, 2016.
Denise Moore started with EEA on November 14, 2006, as a
consumer services representative and moved into her new position
as the communications specialist on January 14, 2016.
Chanda Hurst accepted a position as a consumer services representative on April 4, 2016.
Matthew Podgornoff started his career with Empire Electric on
February 12, 2007, as a vehicle mechanic. He later moved into a custodian position and then into the facilities coordinator position. On
March 31, 2016, Matthew accepted the position of Vehicle Mechanic.
Ace Astor started with EEA as a vehicle mechanic on January 10,
2011, and was promoted to the senior vehicle mechanic position on
March 19, 2016.
Jo Alice Belcher started her career with EEA on July 20, 1998, as
a consumer services representative. Her retirement date was April
29, 2016. We are appreciative of Jo Alice’s many years of dedicated
service and wish her well in her future endeavors.
DENISE MOORE
LORETTA HOWE
CHANDA HURST
ACE ASTOR
MATTHEW PODGORNOFF
JO ALICE BELCHER
JULES BITSILLY
My Co-op Calendar MAY 2016
May 8
MOTHER’S DAY
May 20
EEA BOARD MEETING, 801 N. BROADWAY, CORTEZ
May 30
MEMORIAL DAY, EEA OFFICE IS CLOSED
The May 2016 photo calendar contest winner is
“Brothers” submitted by Heather Oliver
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CONTROLLED BURNS AND POWER POLES
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Properly controlled burns can have many benefits for agricultural
land. However, if these burns are not managed safely, they can result
in property damage, power outages, injury and even death. Empire
Electric Association urges you to make safety a priority and shares
important information on the special considerations that need to be
taken around power lines.
First, make yourself aware of laws and regulations. Burns should
only be conducted by those who are experienced with fire and burn
paths. Avoid burning near public roads or airports, as this can create
a potentially dangerous visibility hazard. Alert all those who may be
potentially affected by the burn, including neighbors, the local fire
department and law enforcement. Depending on local regulations,
you may also need to obtain a burn permit.
Take special note of power poles and lines. Burning a power pole
could result in a widespread power outage and be costly for the individual responsible for the fire.
Cut down grass and weeds, and water the area near the poles to
discourage fires from encroaching. Be careful to keep water streams
out of power lines.
If a power pole catches fire, call the fire department and alert your
utility to handle the possible electrical dangers. Even if you think
you put out the fire yourself, alert the utility to the fact that it caught
fire. The creosote, a preservative, on the inside could still be burning
the pole from the inside out. In addition, if the pole catches on fire,
it could create shock or electrocution hazards to those who may be
nearby or spark fires in unintended directions from downed lines.
Carbon particles in smoke can conduct electricity, and it is also
possible for smoke produced during the burnings to conduct electricity and cause an electrical discharge from the line. To reduce this risk,
the fire should not cross under power lines.
Also keep environmental factors, such as temperature, humidity
and wind direction and speed, in mind. The wind speed in the area
should be low and in a steady direction to prevent the fire from getting out of control. As environmental factors are subject to change,
check forecasts, as well as actual conditions, before you begin the
burn.
Ensure that you have the proper clothing, equipment and tools. For
personal safety, all those near the flames should wear clothing made
of natural fibers or approved for fire fighting.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON SAFETY AROUND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, VISIT SAFEELECTRICITY.ORG.
Drive to Revive Arbor Day
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In April, 65 fourth-graders at Dolores Elementary School received trees sponsored by EEA in
celebration of Arbor Day. They will roll up their
sleeves and plant a tree as part of the FourthGrade Foresters project and to help revitalize a
remarkable idea — observation of Arbor Day in
America’s schools.
“This project is made possible because community businesses like Empire Electric covered
the cost of each of the individually packaged
evergreen trees, so that there is no cost to the
students, the teachers, the school or the taxpayer,” stated Debra Ersch, co-founder of the
Fourth-Grade Foresters project. “It’s a wonderful way to show support for the community,
education and the environment.”
Fourth-Grade Foresters USA was created to
provide a simple and inexpensive way for any
individual, business or organization to send the
students home with a tree to plant and care
for. Each fourth-grader receives an individually
packaged 12- to 18-inch evergreen tree seedling
packaged by workers with disabilities.
Each tree sent home with a fourth grader included the following instructions:
TREE PLANTING GUIDE
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Don’t Get Tricked Into Energy Savings Scams
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A quick search of the Internet reveals many
great ways to save energy around your
home. Simple things, such as adding insulation or using energy-efficient lightbulbs, are
simple and relatively inexpensive ways to
save small amounts of energy.
The same search will also reveal “amazing” products that claim to cut up to a third
of your energy bill, without changing anything about your energy use habits. Claims
like this sound too good to be true, and
there is good reason for that. These claims
almost always turn out to be exaggerations
or downright lies.
An energy efficiency scam is generally
easy for a person who works at an electric
co-op to spot and identify. However, it isn’t
so easy for most people. Scams generally
center on misstatements of science or confusion over utility programs.
A popular scam is a little box that promises to save you energy. The box is a device
that supposedly saves energy without the
consumer making any changes to behavior, turning anything off or adjusting the
thermostat. The people who sell these boxes
often claim outrageous energy savings —
sometimes as much as 30 percent or more.
They often use terms, such as power conditioning, capacitors and power factor, all of
which are legitimate industry terms.
The sales pitch usually goes something
like this: The device being sold will control
alternating current and power factor and
reduce the cost of electric bills. It will condition your power and make appliances last
longer. The device uses no power and has
no moving parts. It will make the motors in
your home run better. The sales material often claims that the utility doesn’t want you
to know about the device. That last part is
actually true — because it is a rip-off. Variations of the product have been sold to both
residential and commercial customers.
There are several questions that you
should ask a salesman (or yourself) when
reading an ad for the next magical cure-all:
1. Does it violate the laws of science?
Some products claim that they are capable of “changing the molecular structure … to release never-before tapped
power.” Changing the laws of science is
no easy task. If the inventors truly can
do this, the product will surely be sold
at every store in the nation and they
will become wealthy. They won’t be
mailing out flyers or operating from a
poorly designed website.
BY BRIAN SLOBODA
2. Was the product tested by an independent group like a national lab or
university? If the performance of the
product was not tested and certified by
a lab or other entity not connected to
the company selling it, then be skeptical. Call the third-party group and talk
to a representative. Sometimes scammers lie about the tests.
3. Is it too good to be true? In today’s
economic times, saving money is top
of mind. We want something to be true
so we can save money, improve our
lives and feed our families. But wanting
something to work doesn’t mean it will.
Sometimes energy scammers contact
consumers directly, either by calling or
stopping by and claiming they represent the local electric co-op. Never give
anyone personal or financial information who claims to be an employee of
the co-op without confirming his or
her identity. If someone calls, ask for a
call-back number and verify the caller’s
identity with your co-op. If someone
stops by, ask the person for a valid
employee ID.
The key is to be skeptical and ask questions. Asking tough questions and being
skeptical will not offend honest people.
Remember, if it sounds too good to be true,
it probably is.
Brian Sloboda is a technical research analyst specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy for
Business Technology Strategies, a service arm of the
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
PREPARE FOR THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
W
When summer comes, you don’t need to leave the air conditioning on full blast for Spot
and Fluffy. Dogs and cats have higher body temperatures than humans and they are
comfortable with temperatures between 78 and 82 degrees. In addition, dogs and cats
sweat differently than humans, so running fans will not have the same effect it has on
you. Other ways to keep your pets comfortable when it’s warm out include:
• For indoor pets, keep shades drawn and direct light filtered. Provide cool areas to
rest, such as a basement or a tile floor with a cooling mat. For outdoor pets, provide a shady spot with plenty of airflow, such as under a tree or a tarp.
• Give them plenty of water, perhaps with ice, and cool treats like peanut butter
popsicles.
• Exercise pets during the cooler parts of the day to prevent heat fatigue.
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Bringing Electric Co-op News to You
For more than 60 years, Colorado
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news and a variety of other consumer
information to members of electric
cooperatives throughout Colorado.
The magazine, now sent to more than
218,000 co-op members across the state,
is the most effective
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annual meeting, its rates and more inside
the magazine throughout the year. There
are also articles on ways to save money
on your electric bill, how to make your
home more energy efficient and what
you may need to know if you are thinking
of adding solar panels to your home or
switching to a geothermal heating system.
The information varies and is new each
month.
And all of this information comes
to you for a cost of only 37 cents per
magazine. By working cooperatively, your
electric co-op is keeping you connected.
Let us know how we are doing. Send
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Or mail them to 5400 Washington St.,
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February 2016
U.S. Electric Use Drops in 2015
Total retail electricity sales in 2015 fell
1.1 percent from the previous year, according to the U.S. Energy Information
Administration. This is the fifth time
in the past eight years that electricity
consumption has fallen.
The lower usage reflects declining
industrial use and little or no growth
among residential and commercial customers, despite a boost in the number
of households and building space.
EIA attributes the drop to increasing
efficiency of electricity-using equipment, a slowing economy and weaker
manufacturing.
—CFC Solutions
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Governor Signs Co-op Election Bill
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Two minor changes in electric co-op election law became official once Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) signed Senate Bill 16-055 into law in March. The bill, supported by the Colorado Rural Electric Association and its member co-ops, clarified that ballots for co-op
elections can be counted whether or not they are inside the provided secrecy envelope.
SB 16-055 also clarified how candidates can inspect ballots after an election.
On hand for a photo of the governor signing the bill were Jaclyn Terwey of Intermountain Rural Electric Association, CREA Executive Director Kent Singer, CREA Board
President Jack Schneider, John Liss of IREA, CREA Director of Government Relations
Geoff Hier and Senate sponsor Sen. Kevin Grantham (R). House sponsor Rep. Dominick
Moreno (D) was unable to attend.
Best Batteries for Energy Storage?
TRY LITHIUM-ION
A new study from Lux Research finds that lithium-ion
batteries will likely remain the standard for stationary
energy storage well into the future.
The report, “The Next Generation Battery Roadmap,”
claims that the biggest growth in battery storage will
come from “gradually evolving lithium-ion batteries that
incorporate incremental innovations like higher-voltage
cathodes and electrolytes, paired with higher-capacity active materials like silicon-containing composites.”
Forecasts have the lithium-ion battery storage market growing from $775.4 million
in 2015 to more than $15.8 billion by 2024.
BEWARE OF SCAMS
One of the latest scams electric co-ops members are reporting involves someone calling to say that a new energy provider has taken over the co-op. That is not true.
The caller then requests that payments be sent to the new company. When those
payments are sent to the new address, the unsuspecting co-op member then gets a
past due notice from the co-op.
Other scams reported involve a co-op member being called and warned that a bill is
past due. The member is then asked to pay via phone immediately so that the power
will not be shut off.
If you have a question about whether or not a caller is actually from the co-op, hang
up and call your electric co-op directly.
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Co-ops Search for Best LEDs
By Michael W. Kahn, Electric Co-op Today
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By Derrill Holly, Electric Co-op Today
at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory and the
University of Michigan to help develop LPN
Optimal Resiliency Model software, Spiers
said. “The tool will identify the most costeffective upgrades that utilities can make to
improve grid resiliency.”
Plans call for completion of the project by
the end of the 2018 fiscal year.
“Modernizing the U.S. electrical grid is essential to… keeping the lights on,” said Energy
Secretary Ernest Moniz in a prepared statement announcing funding for a number of grid
improvements and research projects.
Moniz added that public-private partnerships are key in strengthening the nation’s
electrical infrastructure for the decades ahead.
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Figuring out which LEDs to buy can be harder than assembling IKEA furniture.
“There are a lot of LED options out there, and options are often viewed as a luxury to
have. But the only problem is you have to sift through them, because there are better LEDs
than others,” said Joshua McGhee, strategic communications manager at Touchstone Energy.
Electric co-ops around the country are working with their local municipalities and other
governmental units on updating street lighting and other outdoor lights with LED lamps. It
is important for the co-ops to recommend what is going to work best for the situation and
be most cost effective because outdoor lightening is a big expense for cities, towns and
schools.
“What I would encourage is informed skepticism. You’ve got to know the right questions
to ask,” said David Korow, senior lighting specialist at the General Electric Lighting Research
Center. “And then you need to be able to verify
what was said.”
A key issue is life span. Many in the industry base
it on LED lumen maintenance, a measure of how
well a lamp maintains its light output over time.
Korow likened that to “basing the life of your computer on the backspace key.
“What about everything else?” he asked, rattling
off a long list including drivers, controls, connections, gaskets and housings. Korow said GE’s research shows the weak link in the system is not the
LEDs. Instead, researchers are finding that the driver
often goes first.
Korow suggested testing LEDs and getting
public feedback, which is what Poudre Valley Rural
Electric Association did when Windsor city officials
approached the co-op about replacing some 550
streetlights.
“We had samples provided by the vendors,” said David White, member relations manager
at Fort Collins-based PVREA.
After a review by co-op engineering and operations staff, the samples were deployed,
mainly in parks. The town put a map of where to find them on its website.
This was to raise public awareness of what the co-op and town planned, White said.
PVREA really encouraged residents to take a look at these different lights and share their
views on the amount and color of light.
“The public really got to participate,” White said. “We received a lot of positive feedback.”
Electric cooperatives are playing a key role
in developing strategies to reduce economic
losses caused by weather-related power
outages while improving the resiliency of the
nation’s power grid.
Under a $1.8 million U.S. Department of
Energy grant, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association is helping develop open
source software designed to identify cost-effective upgrades for electric grid components
to reduce damage and speed recovery from
extreme weather events.
“With more than 2.5 million miles of distribution line and transmission components serving
47 states, our member cooperatives face every
weather extreme common to North America,”
said Jim Spiers, NRECA’s vice president of business and technology strategies.
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Power
is Good
Reliable electricity is becoming even more reliable
BY PAUL WESSLUND
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Your electricity is on almost all the time. You know that. But
you might not know the amount of time it’s on is getting better
every year.
Electricity has become so reliable that the numbers for a typical
American home sound crazy. For most people, the total amount
of time without power because of an outage is less than two hours
a year. That means their electricity is on 99.977169 percent of the
time.
“You can’t have 100 percent reliability all
the time on something as large as an electric
distribution system,” says Tony Thomas, principal engineer at the National Rural Electric
Cooperative Association. And although the
U.S. electric service on-time number is just
a decimal point from perfect, Thomas says,
“Reliability has been getting much better.”
To understand the improvements in electric utility reliability,
you need to be introduced to what Thomas says are known as “the
three sisters”: the acronyms SAIDI, CAIDI and SAIFI.
Those stand for different ways to measure how power outages
affect consumers. Here’s what they mean:
SAIDI shows how long an average customer goes without
power during a year. It stands for System Average Interruption
Duration Index. It’s calculated by dividing all of a utility’s power
interruptions by the number of customers that utility serves.
Analysts caution against citing a national SAIDI average because
of the huge differences in utilities across the country and how
data is collected. But a report from the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers puts the typical customer as being without
power 115 minutes a year.
SAIDI numbers do not include extremely long or short outages,
since they could drastically skew the results among utilities and
make the numbers less useful. Extremely long outages, like those
caused by a major storm, can sometimes last more than a day.
The short outages that are not included in SAIDI are, for example,
cases like a utility circuit breaker quickly opening and closing.
SAIFI shows how often the power goes out for each customer.
It stands for System Average Interruption Frequency Index. It’s
calculated by dividing the number of customer interruptions by
the number of customers.
CAIDI shows the average time it takes to
restore power after an outage. It stands for
Customer Average Interruption Duration
Index. It’s calculated by dividing SAIDI by
SAIFI.
All three of those reliability measures
improved over the past few years, according
to IEEE reports. The amount of time a utility
customer was without electricity for the year (SAIDI) declined
about 20 percent in the most recent four years of figures — from
143 minutes in 2011 to 115 minutes in 2014.
The number of outages per typical consumer in a year (SAIFI)
went down from 1.16 to 1.07. And how long each of those outages
lasted (CAIDI) declined from 117 minutes in 2011 to 104 minutes
in 2014.
Thomas credits advances in utility technology for those improvements.
More and more mechanical electric meters are being replaced
with automated meters that do more than just measure the bulk
use of electricity coming to the meter at your house. They can
also monitor whether electricity is delivered to your house at all,
as well as the voltage quality of that electricity.
“With automated meters, utilities can know a consumer is out
of power before the consumer knows it,” Thomas says.
“Reliability has
been getting
much better.”
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Another step toward utilities spotting and solving outages
faster is the more widespread adoption of high-tech monitoring systems. These SCADA systems, or Supervisory Control and
Data Acquisition systems, are typically set up as several computer
monitors in a control room, each showing a different view of
the utility’s service area, including weather maps and detailed
schematics of each power line, substation and home or business
served.
“Prices have dropped for SCADA systems, just like for all software in the last few years,” Thomas says. “Utility technology has
gotten a lot better in the last 10 years.”
Thomas credits electric cooperatives with making special use
of technology to overcome the barriers of long distances between
members. Outages and other routine changes in power flow can
be more quickly and easily addressed remotely, without having to
make a long drive to a home or substation.
“Rural electric co-ops have done an amazing job of adopting
technology and putting it to use,” Thomas says. “And all this technology just translates into better operation of the electric system.”
Colorado Rural Electric Association Executive Director Kent
Singer agrees: “Co-ops have a great track record when it comes to
keeping the lights on.”
But what about the future? “Co-ops will be challenged to continue this amazing level of service as more intermittent sources of
electricity are integrated into the grid,” Singer said. “That will not
be easy.”
Paul Wesslund writes on cooperative issues for the National Rural
Electric Cooperative Association, based in Arlington, Virginia.
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The Rise of Reliability
The reliability of electricity has improved over the past
few years. The chart below shows about a 20 percent
decline in the amount of time a typical consumer in the
United States was without power. This number is known
as SAIDI, the System Average Interruption Duration Index.
The time of each power outage decreased to 104 minutes. This is called CAIDI, Customer Average Interruption
Duration Index. And the number of outages experienced
by a typical consumer declined to an average of 1.07 a
year. This number is called SAIFI, System Average Interruption Frequency Index.
SAIDI
2011
2012
2013
2014
(minutes)
143
126
115
115
CAIDI
(minutes)
117
110
107
104
SAIFI
(number of interruptions)
1.16
1.08
1.08
1.07
Source: IEEE Benchmark, 2nd and 3rd quartiles.
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[feature]
FOR THE LOVE OF
BASEBALL
Grand Junction cheers on the boys of summer
BY SHARON SULLIVAN
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Grand Junction has long been a baseball town. Signed bats and
balls are displayed in residents’ homes; special jerseys are pulled
out of closets for specific games; and doors are opened to players
who come to town to play the game they all love.
The home of Linda Romer Todd and her husband, Buzz
Washington, is one that prominently displays a variety of baseball
memorabilia. A dozen framed and autographed photographs of
Todd’s favorite major league players cover an entire wall.
Another wall is dedicated to their hometown team, the Grand
Junction Rockies, a minor league affiliate of the Colorado Rockies.
Two dozen signed baseballs and numerous bats and baseball caps
from team members take up the space. Their granddaughter, Todd
says, has a jersey from a Junior College (JUCO) Baseball World
Series player. Apparently, a love of baseball runs in the family.
Dick and Charlie Monfort, principal owners of the GJ Rockies, bought the baseball franchise in 2011, when it was located in
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Casper, Wyoming, and the team was called the Casper Ghosts.
The following year, the owners moved the team to its current
home and renamed the organization the Grand Junction Rockies.
“A lot of municipalities were interested in securing the minor
league enterprise,” says GJ Rockies General Manager Tim Ray.
“The owners knew when they bought it they eventually wanted
to move the franchise to Colorado. Number one on their list was
Grand Junction because of the history of baseball here, set by
JUCO. Our community takes a tremendous amount of pride hosting the JUCO tournament.”
The Junior College Baseball World Series came to Grand Junction in 1959, a year after JUCO’s first-ever tournament, which
took place in Oklahoma. The athletic director of what was then
Mesa College was at that game and was determined to bring
JUCO to Grand Junction, Ray says. He and the college’s baseball
coach, plus Dale Hollingsworth, former executive director of the
Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce, succeeded in putting
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JUCO games, a weeklong tournament
that starts Memorial Day.
Referred to as the short season rookie
team, the GJ Rockies play at the first level
of professional baseball in Colorado.
Players advance from there to Class A,
High A, Double A and Triple A leagues,
with the goal of eventually playing for the
Colorado Rockies major league team. It is
a journey that typically takes three to five
years, Ray says.
The GJ Rockies will kick off its 2016
season at home June 17, when it competes
against the Orem Owlz, a minor league
affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels. The
76-game season wraps up September 8,
followed by about three weeks of playoffs.
When the minor league team arrived
in Grand Junction in 2012, the organization sought community members to
host both the players and coaches for the
season. Todd immediately volunteered her
home and was assigned former GJ Rockies Manager Tony Diaz, who was later
named development supervisor. She and
her husband are looking forward to their
fifth summer of hosting Diaz.
“We’ve become like family,” Todd says.
“I get Christmas, Thanksgiving and
happy Mother’s Day calls from wherever
he is” — even when he’s in the Dominican
Republic visiting his mother.
Approximately 20 Grand Valley families
open their homes to the young men who
come from all over the country to play
baseball for the summer. Strong bonds
are formed between players and their host
families, many of whom end up following
the players throughout their careers.
Carma Brown says she never expected
together a winning bid to host JUCO. The
tournament has been held in Grand Junction ever since.
“It made $157 profit that first year,”
says Jamie Hamilton, JUCO chairman
and chief executive officer of Home Loan
Insurance Company in Grand Junction. “Last year cash flow (was) about
$310,000.” Hamilton played professionally
with the California Angels before returning to Grand Junction in 1981, where he
coached Mesa College baseball for four
years and co-directed JUCO.
Linda Romer Todd and her husband
buy season tickets each year to the GJ
Rockies — whose season spans the summer — and the Alpine Bank-sponsored
to become a baseball mom after her own
kids grew up and moved out. She laughs
when she tells how she initially declined
when asked to host a GJ Rockies player for
the season. Brown and her husband, Nick,
had recently become empty nesters.
However, after repeated requests, Brown
reconsidered. She consulted her husband
who surprised her with his reply: “Baseball
has been good for our family, with our
boys. If these kids need help, of course they
can live here.”
They agreed to take in two players that
first summer four years ago. A week later
a representative of player development for
the Colorado Rockies called, asking, “Our
first round draft player is coming to Grand
Junction. Can he live with you? You’re the
perfect fit for him.” That’s how the Browns
ended up with three players that summer
and every year since.
One of these rookies was Eddie Butler,
who has 19 starts in the major leagues
with the Colorado Rockies. “We’re still
really close, four years later,” Brown says,
who beams when she talks about any of
the players she’s hosted, all of whom she
considers like family. “We were there when
Eddie made his debut in the big league two
years ago when he pitched against the Los
Angeles Dodgers. It’s so fun when kids get
moved up because we know them.”
Four of the 10 players the Browns hosted
over the years were in spring training in
Scottsdale, Arizona, this year. “We try and
go to spring training every year to see all
the boys,” Brown says.
Brown, a personal insurance manager
for Home Loan Insurance, met Butler and
his girlfriend in Scottsdale for several days
recently when she went there for work. In
October, she’s planning to travel to South
Carolina to attend the wedding of another
former GJ Rockies player and houseguest.
Linda Romer
Todd shows off a
variety of baseball
memorabilia
in her Grand
Junction home.
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SUPLIZIO FIELD AT STOCKER STADIUM
Home of the Grand Junction Rockies and JUCO World Series
Photo courtesy of the Grand Junction Rockies
While host families are not paid, the
baseball franchise provides the players’
lunch before the games and dinner afterward — which helps keep host families’
food costs down. “We do it for the love of
baseball and kids,” Brown says. Even players like Butler, who end up with a big sign-
2016 ALPINE BANK JUNIOR
COLLEGE WORLD SERIES
MAY 28, 2016 - JUNE 4, 2016
Suplizio Field, Grand Junction, CO
The Alpine Bank Junior College Baseball World
Series has been a staple event in Grand Junction
for over 50 years. JUCO draws amazing young
baseball players full of talent, commitment and
enthusiasm. Players, coaches and fans are all
swept up in the thrilling moments of America’s
favorite pastime.
TICKET INFORMATION
• Fans purchasing tickets for the first time can buy
online at monumentalevents.com, clicking on the
information link for the tournament, or at jucogj.
org, clicking on ticket information under the “Visitor
Info” tab. First-time season ticket buyers can also pay
by phone with a credit card by calling 800-626-8497.
• Fans who are renewing the same seats they had last
year may call 800-626-8497 and renew with a credit
card over the phone.
• Reserved grandstands series passes are $76 through
the end of January, with reserved “Tower” seats $152.
• General admission passes are also on sale online at
$35 for adults or $25 for students and senior citizens.
JUCOGJ.ORG
Information above from jucogj.org and monumentalevents.com
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ing bonus, “at home, they’re just another
kid,” she says.
Several former baseball players found
their way back to Grand Junction after
playing in the JUCO tournament and
other summer leagues. Suplizio Field
in Stocker Stadium, where both the GJ
Rockies and JUCO games take place,
was named for Sam Suplizio, who played
for the former Grand Junction Eagles
team, before being drafted by the New
York Yankees. When an arm injury cut
his career short, the Pennsylvania native
returned to Grand Junction and immediately became involved with JUCO.
Andy Weaver is a former JUCO player,
originally from Kansas, who also decided
to make Grand Junction his home. At
a JUCO banquet before the start of the
1994 tournament, Weaver noticed a pretty
blonde waitress who was serving the table
where he was seated. He ultimately asked
her to dinner, and she came to the games
to root for his team. Although Weaver’s
team lost that year, he won a girlfriend.
The couple conducted a long-distance
relationship for the next two years while
he played minor league baseball around
the country.
“JUCO has given me an amazing wife
and four great kids,” says Weaver, who
currently serves on the JUCO committee. “Our boys have been very active in
baseball.”
More than 100,000 spectators attend
the JUCO tournament, Weaver says. “The
economic impact is great for our community. We can showcase what western
Colorado life is like.”
The all-volunteer JUCO committee,
comprised of 80-plus community members, presented the Grand Junction City
Council with $800,000 toward the remodel
of Stocker Stadium and $30,000 for a new
scoreboard. JUCO also financially contributed to the Tower, a multiuser complex
at the stadium, serving sports and civic
audiences.
JUCO proceeds have provided $50,000
in scholarships to local students to further
their education, and $250,000 for Colorado
Mesa University’s clubhouse. Additionally,
JUCO funded dugouts at Grand Junction
High School and a scoreboard for Grand
Mesa Little League.
Grand Junction’s minor league team
contributes financially to the community
as well. Each year, the GJ Rockies buys the
varsity uniforms for Grand Valley’s four
high school baseball teams. The organization also donates to various local nonprofits and gives money to JUCO.
In 2013, the GJ Rockies won the national
John Henry Moss Community Service
Award. Only one out of 160 teams across the
nation receives the award each year. “It signifies our ownership is very committed to
the community of Grand Junction in terms
of time, energy and resources,” Ray says.
Todd says she prefers watching JUCO
and GJ Rockies games to major league
baseball because of the closeness between
players and community members. “At
JUCO and Rockies levels, you can still
touch the players,” she says. “It’s fun
watching players from both the Rockies
and JUCO go down on their knees to talk
to a child. It’s pretty special.”
Local Little Leaguers accompany their
adult minor league counterparts onto the
field to sing the national anthem before the
GJ Rockies games.
Local teenagers are hired to be batboys
for the season.
2016 HOME SEASON SCHEDULE
GJ Rockies’ new president, Joe Kubly,
says his goal is to provide a family
friendly atmosphere that’s affordable,
and where fans will leave with a smile at
the end of the day.
And, with that, a town can enjoy the
summer filled with the game it loves.
(Below) Carma Brown and Eddie Butler at a game during
his 2012 rookie year with the Grand Junction Rockies.
Photo courtesy of Darrell Gilbert
Photo courtesy of Carma Brown
Photo courtesy of Carma Brown
Freelance writer Sharon Sullivan is based
in Grand Junction and enjoys exploring
what makes the Grand Valley the special
and unique place it is. Her work appears
in several Western Slope publications and
now in Colorado Country Life.
Friday, June 17
Orem
6:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 18
Orem
7:05 p.m.
Friday, June 24
Idaho Falls
6:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 25
Idaho Falls
7:05 p.m.
Sunday, June 26
Idaho Falls
7:05 p.m.
Monday, June 27
Idaho Falls
7:05 p.m.
Monday, July 4
Orem
6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, July 5
Orem
7:05 p.m.
Friday, July 8
Ogden
6:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 9
Ogden
7:05 p.m.
Sunday, July 10
Ogden
7:05 p.m.
Monday, July 11
Ogden
7:05 p.m.
Thursday, July 21
Billings
7:05 p.m.
Friday, July 22
Billings
6:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 23
Billings
7:05 p.m.
Sunday, July 24
Billings
7:05 p.m.
Monday, July 25
Great Falls
7:05 p.m.
Tuesday, July 26
Great Falls
7:05 p.m.
Wednesday, July 27
Great Falls
7:05 p.m.
Thursday, August 4
Missoula
7:05 p.m.
Friday, August 5
Missoula
6:30 p.m.
Saturday, August 6
Missoula
7:05 p.m.
Sunday, August 7
Missoula
7:05 p.m.
Monday, August 8
Helena
7:05 p.m.
Tuesday, August 9
Helena
7:05 p.m.
Wednesday, August 10
Helena
7:05 p.m.
Saturday, August 20
Idaho Falls
7:05 p.m.
Sunday, August 21
Idaho Falls
7:05 p.m.
Monday, August 22
Idaho Falls
7:05 p.m.
Tuesday, August 23
Idaho Falls
7:05 p.m.
Above left: (left to right) Dylan
Stamey, Nick Brown, Carma
Brown, Correlle Prime (behind
Carma), Ryan McMahan, Dom
Nunez and Jordan Patterson.
Sunday, August 28
Orem
7:05 p.m.
Monday, August 29
Orem
7:05 p.m.
Tuesday, August 30
Orem
7:05 p.m.
Wednesday, August 31
Orem
7:05 p.m.
Above right: The Colorado
Rockies MLB mascot, Dinger,
stops by the Grand Junction
Rockies game for “Mascot Day.”
Monday, September 5
Ogden
7:05 p.m.
Tuesday, September 6
Ogden
7:05 p.m.
Wednesday, September 7
Ogden
7:05 p.m.
Thursday, September 8
Ogden
7:05 p.m.
Left: The view of Suplizio
Field from the stands.
PIONEER ALL-STAR GAME
Tuesday, August 2
Ogden
Photo courtesy of Darrell Gilbert
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[recipes]
Serving Up Love and Gratitude
This Mother’s Day, treat mom to breakfast in bed
BY AMY HIGGINS
Drop a Line
In addition to
your culinary
masterpiece,
express your love
for mom by putting it in writing.
Spell out “I Love
You” or create
a simple heart
using whipped
cream, syrup or
pieces of fruit
somewhere on
the dish. Have
more to say? Slip
a short note with
your sentiments
next to her cup
of coffee.
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Breakfast in bed is a surefire way to make mom
feel special this Mother’s Day. This simple gesture
will keep her smiling on this special holiday and
for weeks to come, all the while creating a fond
memory that lasts a lifetime. So start her day on
a high note with one of these quick yet scrumptious breakfast recipes. Just don’t forget to do
the dishes and clean up when you’re done.
Skillet Eggs and Polenta
Breakfast
1 cup mushrooms, sliced
1 cup red bell pepper, cut into strips
1 cup zucchini, halved lengthwise and sliced into
half-moons
1 jar (32 ounces) marinara sauce
2 1/2 cups low fat or fat free milk
salt, to taste
1/2 cup finely ground polenta
2 teaspoons olive oil
4 eggs
Fresh basil, chopped
Spray a large nonstick skillet. Over medium-high heat,
cook mushrooms, bell pepper and zucchini until vegetables soften slightly, about 3 minutes. Add marinara
and simmer to heat through. Reduce heat to low and
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If that doesn’t
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and a half cup of
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residue should lift
more easily.
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Savory Oatmeal With SoftCooked Egg and Bacon
keep warm.
1 cup low fat milk
1/2 cup old-fashioned oats, uncooked
1 pinch sea salt
1 teaspoon cooking oil (or 1/2-second spray)
1 large egg
1 tablespoon cheddar cheese, shredded
1 slice cooked bacon, coarsely chopped
2 teaspoons green onion, sliced
salt and pepper, to taste
constantly to prevent lumps from forming. Cook until
Combine milk, oats and salt and cook according to
package instructions. While oats cook, heat small, nonstick skillet over medium heat. Lightly coat with cooking
oil. Add egg and cook about 3-4 minutes for runny yolk.
Place oatmeal in a bowl and top with egg, cheese, bacon
and green onion. Season with salt and pepper. Serve
immediately with 8-ounce glass of milk.
Courtesy of Milk Life
Bring milk and salt to a boil in a medium saucepan
over medium-high heat. Slowly whisk in polenta, stirring
thickened, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat, cover
and keep warm.
Heat olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over mediumhigh heat. Carefully crack eggs into pan and cook until
whites are set and yolks are cooked to desired doneness, 4 to 6 minutes.
To serve, divide polenta among four shallow serving bowls; top with marinara and an egg. Sprinkle with
chopped basil.
Serve with 8-ounce glass of milk and whole wheat
toast with jelly.
Courtesy of Milk Life
For more tasty special breakfast recipes,
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[gardening]
Help Pollinators Propagate in Your Garden
Your garden can care for bees, butterflies and birds
BY VICKI SPENCER
O
MASTER GARDENER
Over the past few years, we heard a lot
about declines in native pollinator populations. This is a serious matter since there
are multiple stressors and the world’s food
production relies on pollinators. But sitting
in my Gunnison backyard, I have to admit,
it doesn’t feel like there is a crisis looming.
Bees are buzzing everywhere. Hummingbirds are visiting during their
migration and native birds are flocking
to bathe in the pond. Last year, I even
saw an increase in butterflies and butterfly moths. Why all this activity?
My backyard is one big, incredible
pollinator garden. I wish I could take full
credit, but the previous owner provided
the basic design. The yard is only 30-by-50
feet and is well-protected from the wind.
My house sits on the west, juniper trees
border the north with a 50-foot-high blue
spruce in the northeast corner, wild roses
and golden currant bushes grow against
a tall brick wall on the east and a 6-foot
fence borders the south. Tall grasses
grow in a natural area under the conifer
trees, and dried needles, branches and
flowering woody shrubs provide plenty
of pollinator shelter and nesting sites.
The yard is divided into five different
garden beds with narrow, grassy paths
that guide you from one bed to another.
On the north, there is a cluster of three
aspen trees, bunches of raspberry bushes,
flowering vines, bleeding heart, yarrow
and strawberries. Just to the south is a
small pond surrounded by more raspberry
bushes, pascal flowers, flax and lilies.
The center garden bed is a focal point
for most of the activity. Bees swarm to
lavender, lupine, lilies, blanket flowers
and Rocky Mountain penstemon. Russian and silver sage, clover and various
ground covers keep the weeds at bay.
To the south is my columbine garden
with five colorful varieties, sticky geraniums, harebells and asters. Morning
glories and hops grow up the trellises
that run along the patio, connecting the
gardens, and provide the perfect perch for
birds waiting to dip into the pond. The
fifth garden borders the shrubs along the
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east wall and includes
western yarrow, butterfly
milkweed, blue flax, wild
roses and sunflowers.
If you want to turn
your garden into a haven
for pollinators, you can
find all kinds of information on the Internet,
but here are a few tips:
• Consider planting
flowering shrubs
along the borders
to provide protection from the
wind. Some good
choices are rabbitbrush, serviceberry,
Wood’s rose and American plum.
butterflies, you should research their host
plants. For example, monarch butter• Choose plants that flower at different
flies lay their eggs on milkweed plants.
times of the year so there will be nectar Most bees nest in the ground, in wood
and pollen sources throughout the
or dry plant stems. When pruning, you
growing season. A good rule of thumb
can provide bee nesting sites by cutting
is to begin with nine plant varieties:
stems that are hollow or soft inside, like
three that bloom early, three that bloom raspberries, roses, sumac and coneflower,
midsummer and three that bloom
and leaving some stems about a foot high.
late. The flowers should be of different
Instead of cutting back dead plants in the
colors and shapes to attract different
fall, leave them over the winter to provide
pollinators, but you want to plant each
a seed source and habitat for birds and
variety in clusters, rather than single as other wildlife, then cut back in the spring.
plants. The colors will stand out more
The Xerces Society website, xerces.org,
and attract pollinators more effectively. is a good resource for planning your
pollinator garden. Look for the techni• Finally, you should choose native
cal note, “Plants for Pollinators in the
plants whenever possible. This is
Intermountain West.” It includes a table
because native plants will attract
of plants, their colors, when they bloom
more native pollinators and can serve
and which pollinators they attract. If you
as larval host plants for some of the
already have a flower garden, you might
pollinator species. Native plants have
only need to add a few new plants, or
the added benefit of being wellmake some simple adjustments in how you
adapted to local soils and climates.
garden. It won’t be long before you can
watch all the pollinators busily at work.
Don’t feel compelled to cover the entire
yard with plants and grass. Instead,
Love gardening?
preserve some natural areas with bare,
Read previous gardening columns
well-drained soil and dead or dying plants.
at coloradocountrylife.coop.
Hummingbirds typically nest in trees and
Click on Gardening.
shrubs. Butterflies often lay eggs on specific plants. If you want to attract certain
[ gardening]
Put Some Buzz in Your Landscape
BY GEORGE WEIGEL
Did you know that the pollination efforts of bees are behind one
of every three bites of food we eat as a typical American? That
accounts for some $15 billion a year in U.S. crop services, according
to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
But pollinator populations have dwindled in recent years.
Home gardeners can help remedy the situation with a few simple
gardening habits.
Start by eliminating invasive plants. Most of these are aggressive,
nonnative species that aren’t that attractive to pollinators to start
with. Their biggest threat is elbowing out natives that are of high
pollinator value.
Some of the worst invasive plants throughout much of the
United States are tree of heaven, Oriental bittersweet, Japanese
honeysuckle, the oxeye daisy, Russian olive and the multiflora rose.
But while you are busy pulling out the invasive plants, don’t be
too much of a “neatnik.” Tolerate cosmetic and temporary plant
damage because some of that damage is from caterpillars that are
in the larval stage of becoming butterflies and moths.
Let leaves break down in landscape beds to serve as shelter for
beneficial insect eggs, as well as insulation for plants and a way to
enrich soil. Don’t deadhead all of the spent flowers immediately
because birds use seed as food, especially in winter. And wait
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until spring to remove frost-killed grasses and perennials. That
vegetation also shelters overwintering beneficial insects and serves
as nest-building material for birds.
Finally, give pollinators a water source. Birdbaths and water
features are two good ways. Shallow puddles are also excellent if
you refresh the water every few days to avoid mosquitoes.
George Weigel is a Pennsylvania-based horticulturist,
garden consultant, author and newspaper garden columnist.
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It’s fairly common in these parts for many
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favorite trout streams. While our backcountry trout lakes can remain frozen
well into June or July, the majority of low
lying lakes and reservoirs at lower altitude
are typically ice free by early March, and
most are stocked with trout, but may also
hold bass, walleyes, catfish and a variety
of panfish: perch, bluegills or crappies,
depending on specific conditions and
circumstances. All of them are fun to fish.
Among fly fishers though, it’s the
high prairie lakes that generate the most
excitement. Sagebrush lakes, as they’re
sometimes called, pepper the high, intermountain valleys and cattle country of
North and South Park, and are in prime
fly fishing condition from ice-out in late
April through June and July. Spinney
Mountain, Eleven Mile, Delaney Buttes
and Lake John are so well-known in
Colorado, they’re almost legendary. The
trout in these lakes can grow up to an
inch a month on the incredible abundance
and diversity of food produced in their
nutrient-rich waters. Callibaetis mayflies,
chironomids, caddis flies and damsel and
dragon flies are supplemented by leeches,
minnows, snails, crawfish and scuds.
Trout grow fat on all of them.
In midsummer, the focus of attention
on these lakes is often the damselfly. Or
more correctly, the big trout that eat the
damselflies. The annual damselfly hatch
can really get the trout and fishermen
worked up, but sometimes the real story
on these lakes is the highly-animated caddis flies some old fly fishing books refer
to as lake sedges. These are big, fat bugs —
up to an inch long and usually tan, light
tan or grayish brown in color with long,
tapered antennae that wave around when
they fly, like a pair of tiny errant kite
strings flopping in the breeze. But it’s not
so much the bugs’ size as it is the maddening antics they go through before they get
airborne that drives trout wild.
Upon emergence, the caddis pupae
swim up from submerged weed beds, pop
through the surface and immediately
begin to taxi frantically across the lake
like spastic little motorboats with their
throttles locked on full and no one at
their helms. They spurt erratically in all
directions, seemingly unable to launch
themselves into flight. Unless, of course, a
hungry trout is bearing down on them, at
which point they fairly leap into the air, to
the great dismay of the trout who now will
snap in frustration at virtually any hapless
bug in the vicinity.
Of all the fly patterns that would work
during this hatch — and there are several
— the Goddard caddis must be considered
one of the best for the job. Its silhouette
and natural color are perfect, but it’s the
buoyant, clipped, deer hair body and
stiff hackle collar that make it ideal for
mimicking that crazy, skittering behavior
of the lake sedge. Next time you head for a
plains lake to fish a damselfly hatch, take
a couple of Goddard caddis patterns with
you. If you don’t, you may end up even
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It’s fairly common in these parts for many
anglers to fish lakes while they’re waiting for the runoff to “run off” on their
favorite trout streams. While our backcountry trout lakes can remain frozen
well into June or July, the majority of low
lying lakes and reservoirs at lower altitude
are typically ice free by early March, and
most are stocked with trout, but may also
hold bass, walleyes, catfish and a variety
of panfish: perch, bluegills or crappies,
depending on specific conditions and
circumstances. All of them are fun to fish.
Among fly fishers though, it’s the
high prairie lakes that generate the most
excitement. Sagebrush lakes, as they’re
sometimes called, pepper the high, intermountain valleys and cattle country of
North and South Park, and are in prime
fly fishing condition from ice-out in late
April through June and July. Spinney
Mountain, Eleven Mile, Delaney Buttes
and Lake John are so well-known in
Colorado, they’re almost legendary. The
trout in these lakes can grow up to an
inch a month on the incredible abundance
and diversity of food produced in their
nutrient-rich waters. Callibaetis mayflies,
chironomids, caddis flies and damsel and
dragon flies are supplemented by leeches,
minnows, snails, crawfish and scuds.
Trout grow fat on all of them.
In midsummer, the focus of attention
on these lakes is often the damselfly. Or
more correctly, the big trout that eat the
damselflies. The annual damselfly hatch
can really get the trout and fishermen
worked up, but sometimes the real story
on these lakes is the highly-animated caddis flies some old fly fishing books refer
to as lake sedges. These are big, fat bugs —
up to an inch long and usually tan, light
tan or grayish brown in color with long,
tapered antennae that wave around when
they fly, like a pair of tiny errant kite
strings flopping in the breeze. But it’s not
so much the bugs’ size as it is the maddening antics they go through before they get
airborne that drives trout wild.
Upon emergence, the caddis pupae
swim up from submerged weed beds, pop
through the surface and immediately
begin to taxi frantically across the lake
like spastic little motorboats with their
throttles locked on full and no one at
their helms. They spurt erratically in all
directions, seemingly unable to launch
themselves into flight. Unless, of course, a
hungry trout is bearing down on them, at
which point they fairly leap into the air, to
the great dismay of the trout who now will
snap in frustration at virtually any hapless
bug in the vicinity.
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[funny stories]
Rick Sobottka
recently trav , Colorado Springs,
Poland, via Geled to Bydgoszcz,
dansk.
Last fall, I was painting the west side of
my house, which adjoins a wild area. I was
on a ladder about 8 feet up. I heard a noise,
turned around and saw a large black bear
standing upright looking at me. I swear
I could hear him thinking, “This can’t be
good to eat.” Just then, he fell to his feet
and ambled off. No more painting that day!
Chris Wiggins, Durango
with her sister
Heidi Brugger of Cor tez sits , Pennsylvania.
at the IKEA in Conshohocken
One evening at dinner I said, “Let’s
go around the table and everyone say
something amazing that happened today.”
With a big grin on his face, Sam, my witty
3-year-old son, said, “OK, Mommy, my turn.
Something amazing that happened today.”
It took a moment, but then everyone
burst into laughter.
Kate Wilmhoff, Boulder
Mary Gilmer (midd
daughter Gloria of le) of Buena Vista,
close friend, There Lopez Island and a
Morrison enjoy timsa Garin (right) of
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This month’s winner is Karen
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Karen is at the beach in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida.
TAKE YOUR PHOTO WITH YOUR MAGAZINE AND WIN!
It’s easy to win with Colorado Country Life. Simply take a photo of someone (or a selfie!) with
the magazine and email the photo and your name and address to info@coloradocountrylife.org.
We’ll draw one photo to win a $25 gift card each month. The next deadline is Monday, May 16.
This month’s winner is Karen Ellison, a Grand Valley Power member, who sent this photo at
the beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
After repeatedly helping to clean the
surprising amount of snow we received
over the winter in our Four Corners area,
my son turned to me and said, “Boy, I can
sure use some of the climate warming right
about now.”
Judy Cain, Cortez
Recently my husband had all his top
teeth pulled and replaced with implants.
We told the grandchildren he did not take
good care of his teeth when he was young,
so that is why he had this done now. One
night, my daughter was getting our granddaughter, Aubrey, ready for bed and brushing her teeth. Aubrey told her mommy, “Be
sure to brush my tongue, too, so they don’t
have to pull it out.”
Penny Reed, Aurora
We pay $15 to each person who submits
a funny story that’s printed in the magazine. At the end of the year we will draw
one name from those submitting funny
stories and that person will receive $200.
Send your 2016 stories to Colorado
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coloradocountrylife.org. Don’t forget to
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Prices range from $139.99 to $599. Available at several brick-and-mortar retail stores and online
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affordable and reliable power, responsibly generated and delivered,
is the lifeblood of the rural West. The farms, ranches, small
towns and resorts that our members serve are closely tied to
the landscape and their power supply.
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