La Plata Electric Association is inviting the public to its 75th anniversary bash at its annual meeting May 22, at which time the names of board election winners will be announced.
LPEA is going to make it worthwhile: People who register will receive a $5 credit on their bill and be eligible for numerous door prizes.
Registration and a reception begin at 5 p.m. in the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College. The business meeting begins at 6:30 p.m.
Hearty hors d’oeuvres will be served during the reception and singer/songwriter Tim Sullivan and his band Narrow Gauge will perform.
To mark its 75th anniversary, LPEA has engaged Ted Case, executive director of the Oregon Rural Electric Cooperative, as the keynote speaker. Case, who has held his post since 2009, has a master’s degree in fiction writing from Johns Hopkins University.
Kent Singer, executive director of the Colorado Rural Electric Association, and Mike McInnes, interim manager of Tri-State Generation and Transmission, will speak. Tri-State is the LPEA wholesale electric supplier.
The names of winners in the board election – now going on – will be announced at the bash. Three of the cooperative’s four district seats at stake are contested. Ballots, which were mailed out May 1, must be received at FrederickZink & Associates, the CPA firm chosen to tally votes, by 4 p.m., May 21. Otherwise, association members may vote until 6:30 p.m. the evening of the annual meeting.
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