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September 2012 Celebrating Rural Money Trumps Easy Back-To-School Electrification p. 4 Tradition p. 24 Recipes p. 34 www.ecark.org SEPTEMBER 2012 Lee & BertheLLa $$50,00050,000 thomas Energy Efficiency Grand Prize Winners MAKEMAKEOOVEVERR SEPTEMBER 2012 ARKANSAS LIVING I 1 WATERFURNACE UNITS QUALIFY FOR A 30% FEDERAL TAX CREDIT and it isn’t just corn. You may not realize it, but your home is sitting on a free and renewable supply of energy. A WaterFurnace geothermal comfort system taps into the stored solar energy in your own backyard to provide savings of up to 70% on heating, cooling and hot water. That’s money in the bank and a smart investment in your family’s comfort. Contact your local WaterFurnace dealer today to learn how to tap into your buried treasure. YOUR LOCAL WATERFURNACE DEALERS Brookland DeQueen Mountain Home Russellville Nightingale Mechanical Bill Lee Co. 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Box 510, Little Rock, AR 72203 Members: Please send name of your cooperative with mailing label. $50,000 Volume LXV, Number 11, September 2012 Energy Efficiency An Official Publication of MAKEMAKEOOVEVERR On the Cover: Lee and Berthella Duane highley Thomas, along with their son, Terry, President and Chief Executive Officer pose with ceremonial check. Ouida Cox Editor by Sheila Yount Sheila Yount Photo by Gary Bean Associate Editor 10 Rae Rinehart Administrative Assistant Geri Miller ASU to HoSt Second Production Manager Jeremy henderson Annual JoHnny Cash Heathcott Associates, Graphic Design Music FeStivAl Arkansas electric Cooperatives, inc. Board of Directors Officers by Jack W. hill 14 Martha Pennington Chairman, Hamburg Mel Coleman in the Vice Chairman, Salem Learning Jerry Jacobs Secretary, Dierks Great Outdoors Bill Conine by BuddY GouGh Treasurer, Clinton 18 and it isn’t just corn. 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Custom Heating & Cooling Rood Heating & Air Subscription Price: (870) 933-1200 (870) 642-7127 (870) 425-9498 (479) 968-3131 $7.00 per year for non-members Western Interconnection Eastern Interconnection DEPARTMENTS Texas Interconnection Cabot Hot Springs Central Heating & Air Springdale Advertising Department Family Favorites ..................... 32 Stedfast Heating & Air GTS Inc. (870) 425-4717 Paschal Heat, Air & [email protected] Comments ................................ 4 Reflections .............................. (501) 843-4860 (501) 760-3032 Plumbing 501.570.2310 36 (800) 933-0195 Member of Arkansas Press Association News Briefs .............................. 6 Crossword Puzzle ................... 38 Acceptance of advertising by Arkansas Living does not Capitol Buzz ........................... 24 Scenes from the Past ............... imply endorsement of the product or services advertised by 39 waterfurnace.com the publisher or the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas. Doug Rye Says ....................... 26 Let’s Eat ................................. 40 (800) GEO-SAVE Follow us on Health .................................... 31 Calendar of Events ................. 42 ©2012 WaterFurnace is a registered trademark of WaterFurnace International, Inc. SEPTEMBER 2012 ARKANSAS LIVING I 3 COMMENTS Celebrating Rural Electrification In 1924, then New York Gov. Franklin Roosevelt tive based in Texarkana and Woodruff Electric Cooperative got an electric bill for his rural cottage in Warm based in Forrest City. The remaining 10 electric coopera- tives will reach the 75-year plateau soon. Little Rock-based Springs, Ga. The rate was 18 cents per kilowatt-hour, a Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc., (AECI) which was high rate both then and now. It was about 18 times the rate formed by the state’s electric distribution co-ops to provide he paid in the city at Hyde Park, N.Y. At that point, Roos- various services, including the production of Arkansas Liv- evelt said he decided he had to do something about the high ing magazine, is celebrating its 70th year. electric rates for rural areas, noting that “a little cottage at Warm Springs, Ga., was the birthplace of the Rural Electri- fication Administration (REA).” Eleven years later, on May 11, 1935, Roosevelt kept his promise when as president he created the REA as part of his New Deal program. The REA was needed to help bring electricity to rural America because private power companies refused to do so on the grounds that it wasn’t economically feasible. They wouldn’t even commit to building rural lines with REA loan funds. Instead, it was farmer-owned coop- eratives, organized to apply for REA loans, that would lead the movement. With the signing of the Rural Electrification Act, Roos- evelt paved the way for the development two years later of seven electric cooperatives in Arkansas. At the time, only 1.5 Library FDR percent of the farms in Arkansas had access to power line These co-ops are celebrating this important milestone electricity. Leading the way in the formation of the coop- in various ways, including the production of publications eratives were the Farm Bureau and the Agricultural Exten- chronicling their histories. And there is much to celebrate. sion Service of the University of Arkansas. The Farm Bureau From their humble beginnings, Arkansas’ 17 electric coop- took on rural electrification as one of its main programs, and eratives have grown to provide low-cost and reliable electric its officials played a major role in organizing the co-ops. The service to about 500,000 members across Arkansas and in extension service joined right in, using its county agents and surrounding states. Based on the 2012 Arkansas Business home demonstration agents to spread the word about elec- survey of the 75 largest private businesses in Arkansas, the tricity. electric cooperatives in Arkansas are the second largest pri- The first electric co-op in Arkansas was the aptly named vate business interest in the state. First Electric Cooperative, identified by the REA as “Arkan- Simply put, there is no better success story for the na- sas 10 Pulaski.” tion’s rural electrification program than Arkansas. We think This year, the Arkansas electric distribution cooperatives President Roosevelt would be proud. • formed in 1937 are celebrating their 75th anniversaries. 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