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2008_local covers custom.qxp 7/16/20 1:47 PM Page 7 A CHAMPION OF COOL FOODS FOR NATIONAL PARKS AND WoMen’s suFFrage HoT daYs CoMing HoMe F o r p e d e r n a l e s e C M e M B e r s a u g u s T 2 0 2 0 W H a T B e i n g T e x a n M e a n s MY THX PEC’S COVID-19 RESPONSE s e e pa g e 1 8 P L U S 20 save energy and Money With These HVaC Tips 22 protect Yourself From solar scams 23 see Who Won the 2020 peC Board election contents August 2020 04 currents 06 tcp talk 18 co-op news Get the latest information plus energy and safety tips from your cooperative. 29 Footnotes in texas history Empowering Every Vote By Tanya Estes 30 tcp Kitchen Cool Foods By Megan Myers 34 hit the road Mysterious Message By Chet Garner 36 Focus on texas 08 Photo Contest: On the Water MY TX 38 observations What does being a texan mean? A variety of folks with special Coming Home connections to the state share their thoughts. Story and photo by Introduction by Joe Holley karla k. morton and Alan Birkelbach On the COver David torres of texas hatters. Photo by Wyatt McSpadden AbOve One reason we love texas? bluebonnets! Photo by Eric W. Pohl texAsCOOppOWer.COm August 2020 TEXAS COOP POWER 3 Currents “Texas is the finest portion Bee Aware of the globe that , an Australian company that markets FloW hive has ever blessed a structure to harvest honey without disturbing the bees, reminds us as we recognize World my vision.” Honey Bee Day on August 15 how essential bees are to life on Earth. The more than 19,000 species —sAm houston of bees are responsible for pollinating 30% of the world’s food crops and 90% of wild plants. For the past 15 years, bee populations have What can you do to been declining at an alarming rate largely due to climate change, habitat loss and pesticide use. help bees thrive? Worker bees, which are female, produce about put the sprays away. a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in their five- to plant bee-friendly flowers. Finish this six-week life span. These are the only bees most let your veggie and herb people ever see. plants flower. sentence Educate children on the WHEN I THINK importance of pollinators. OF TEXAS, I THINK OF ... tell us how you would finish that sentence. email your short responses to letters@texas Cooppower.com or comment on our Facebook post. Include your co-op and city. here are some of the responses to our June prompt: to me, being a texan means … It’s already 90 degrees by 9 a.m. and saying, “Oh, what a beautiful day.” mIke WhItley grAysOn-COllIn eC m C k I n n e y being the salt of the earth and having a salty story or two to prove it. mArk brOWnIng sAm hOustOn eC g O O D r I C h not being a Californian anymore. DAlene mAsDen m e D I n A e C m I C O naturally saying y’all and fixin’. CAnDy pennIngtOn kIesOW hOustOn COunty eC g r A p e l A n D to see more responses, read Currents online. hOneyCOmb: bIg blue stuDIO | shutterstOCk.COm. bee: DAnIel pruDek | shutterstOCk.COm 4 TEXAS COOP POWER August 2020 texAsCOOppOWer.COm tcp’s neW looK From cover to cover, Texas Co-op Power is a new magazine. read, enjoy and share your ideas about every section. We want to hear from all 3.7 million of you, by email or on Facebook. 127.36 feet Acclaimed Ashrita Furman caught an intact water balloon Clipper thrown 127.36 feet by opened the first college for African henry miller morgan Bipin Larkin—a world American barbers in 1933 in downtown Tyler. The school had only five chairs, but it thrived, and within 20 years Morgan record—on August 8, had opened schools in Houston, Dallas, New York, Missis- 2012, in New York. sippi and Arkansas. August 7 is National Morgan was born 125 years ago—August 25, 1895, in Tyler. Water Balloon Day. Contests and More on texascooppoWer.com Focus on texas photo contest On Wheels $500 recipe contest vegetarian Win a booK enter to win copies of three books mentioned in this issue. From our archive Want more about cowboy hats? Check out Cowboy Hatters from April 2016. bArber tOOls: rOubICkO | shutterstOCk.COm. trICyCle: kevIn tIChenOr | shutterstOCk.COm. bAllOOn: tImquO | shutterstOCk.COm texAsCOOppOWer.COm August 2020 TEXAS COOP POWER 5 TCP Talk an alternate reality “I read Black Like Me in 1967 in high school. Eye-opening and inspir- ing, which led me to choose I Have a Dream for a class presentation.” JoycE BAttArBEE nAvAsotA vAllEy Ec J E w E t t DOn rutleDge | COurtesy WIngs press rare treat oh, my: no mi tierra? dear dairy The last time I saw a horny toad was I am aghast you did not I love the photo on telling 15-plus years ago, and that was the first I grew up playing with include Mi Tierra in the heart us Texas Tech University time I had seen one in probably 25 these prehistoric of El Mercado [We Brake for will have a vet school [More years [The Lizard Brigade, June 2020]. lizards just a mile from Queso, June 2020]. Opened in Critter Care, Currents, June I caught the little guy to show my boys; where I currently live 1941, sitting 500 patrons at a 2020]. Texas A&M is a fab- [The Lizard Brigade, they had never seen one before. We time and slinging enchiladas ulous institution, but they June 2020]. these looked him over. I didn’t want to let fellas are still breeding 24 hours a day, 365 days a discontinued their dairy him go, but I knew we had to. strong out here. year. science program several years AlICeA lOgAn- ago. (Your photo showed a tammie Frenzel m A s t e r s noble Dunson Holstein dairy calf.) Texas vIA FACebOOk heart of texas eC Central texas eC Tech will, I hope, bring dairy Westphalia kingsland science back to our veterinary programs. We don’t want to forget Guadalupe’s Mexican gabrielle gordon Restaurant in Gladewater. tri-County eC I’ve been eating there for tarrant County 24 years and have not had one bad meal. Write to us [email protected] patricia martin Cherokee County eC editor, texas Co-op power starrville 1122 Colorado st., 24th Floor Austin, tx 78701 please include your electric co-op and town. letters may be edited for clarity and length. texas Co-op power texas electric cooperatives board oF directors texas co-op power volume 77, number 2 (usps 540-560). 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