A Look Back At Public Power...

50 years ago - 1957

Roger L. Conkling, director of budget and management for Bonneville Power Administration, received one of 10 annual Arthur J. Flemming awards for outstanding young men in federal government ... Grant County PUD conducted a ground-breaking ceremony within the cofferdam at the Priest Rapids Dam site (Wash.) ... The Montana legislature killed the proposed Columbia Interstate Compact ... Klickitat County PUD received a $644,000, two-percent, 35-year loan from REA (Wash.) ... Clearwater Power Company Director John M. George became president of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (Idaho).

25 years ago - 1982

The Washington Public Power Supply System successfully sold $680 million in revenue bonds in late May, $90 million more than originally advertised ... A ruling from the Oregon Court of Appeals cleared the way for the new Emerald People's Utility District to take over the electric distribution system from Pacific Power and Light Co. in rural Lane county (Ore.) ... Matanuska Electric Association received an REA loan of $14.9 million to finance 80 percent of a project including 2,489 additional consumers, 227 miles of distribution line, and six miles of transmission (Alaska) ... Robert McKinney, general manager of the Cowlitz County (Wash.) PUD was selected president-elect of the American Public Power Association Board of Directors.

5 years ago - 2002

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District partnered up with Starbucks Coffee to promote its green power program (Calif.) ... The Community Service Network of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association honored Kotzebue Electric Association for its dedication to its community (Alaska) ... Pend Oreille PUD received 16 energy-related projects for its annual Energy Fair for Pend Oreille County junior high and high school students (Wash.) ... The Turlock Irrigation District line department acquired a Vaxcavator, a machine which would radically reduce manual labor for excavation projects as well as reduce the risk of damage to underground power lines during an excavation (Calif.)

*Information provided by the NWPPA publication, "BULLETIN".