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Thursday, November 22, 2012 • Issue # 971
Holiday Traditions:
Garkane to Refund Half a Million Dollars to Members
LOA - Garkane Energy’s Board of Directors has announced that a $500,000 Capital Credit Refund will be made to the cooperative’s membership in December. Current members will see their share of the refund as a credit on the power bill they receive in the month of December, while former members who were still eligible for capital credit refunds will receive their checks in the mail. The refund is a result of the strong financial performance of the cooperative. Capital Credit refunds are part of what makes a cooperative unique. When Garkane’s revenues exceed expenses, the excess revenues become a Capital Credit to the members of the cooperative, who are the customers who purchase the electricity. When cash flows allow, the cooperative issues a refund. Garkane also received a wholesale power rebate from its power supplier, Deseret Power. Garkane is one of six cooperatives, which own
and direct the operations of Deseret. Deseret provides power to Garkane and others from its Bonanza Power Plant near Vernal, Utah, and the Hunter II Plant in Castledale, Utah, as well as administering members’ contracts with the Western Area Power Administration, the federal power marketing agency, which delivers power to Garkane from Glen Canyon Dam. Deseret enjoyed a successful year, so Garkane, as one of its cooperative owners reaped the benefits and passed them along to its members. Carl Albrecht, Garkane’s CEO, stated that he hoped “a smaller December electric bill will help make our members’ holiday preparations a bit easier in these tough economic times.” He went on to say, “Capital Credit Refunds should serve as a reminder of the benefits of being a cooperative member.” Albrecht went on to say that Garkane’s Capital Credit refunds over the past years have totaled over $8 Million. —Garkane Energy
Deadline to Apply for Daniels Scholarships is November 29
DENVER, CO - High school seniors in Utah who demonstrate Character, Leadership, and Service are encouraged to apply for the Daniels Scholarship Program by the Nov. 29 deadline by visiting www.DanielsFund.org/Apply. “In establishing the Daniels Scholarship, cable pioneer Bill Daniels wanted to seek out outstanding young people who possess tremendous strength of character, the passion to succeed, a willingness to work hard, and a commitment to giving back to the community,” explained Linda Childears, president and CEO of the Daniels Fund. Each year, approximately 250 new Daniels Scholars are selected from among thousands who apply. They go through a rigorous application, interview, and selection process. The reward of being selected for the program is the opportunity to obtain a 4-year college education at any nonprofit college or university in the United States, complete with financial and personal support throughout the college journey.
To be eligible to apply for a Daniels Scholarship students must be current high school seniors graduating during the 2012-2013 academic year from a high school in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, or Wyoming. They must be a current resident of one of those states and at the time of application be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident of the United States. They must also demonstrate financial need and other requirements of the scholarship. The Daniels Scholarship is not “full ride”, but is supplemental to all other financial aid resources, including Pell Grants, available to the student. After other financial resources have been applied, the Daniels Scholarship covers all required tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, and a variety of other miscellaneous expenses. Students also receive a laptop computer and a printer. Visit www.danielsfund. org for more information. —The Daniels Fund
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Angel Tree Volunteer Helps Santa Make Deliveries to Wayne Residents, Aged Eight...to Eighty
Diane Borgerding puts the finishing touches on Wayne County’s Angel Tree in the lobby of Royal’s Food Town in Loa.
LOA - Wayne County resident Diane Borgerding says she has “a very large closet.” And this large closet comes in especially handy this time of year, as Ms. Borgerding serves as the primary coordinator for the Angel Tree programs for both children and seniors throughout Wayne County. The Angel Tree program for youth provides Christmas gifts to kids in low-income families, and, in this case, there is an actual tree involved. How Angel Tree programs work is if you see an Angel Tree in any community, you may select a tag from the tree representing a particular child and their desired gift, obtain the item, and deliver the gift to a drop-off location. This year’s Wayne County Angel Tree is located in the lobby of Royal’s Food Town in Loa. Gift tags are for many different kinds of items, like board games, remote control cars, pajamas, and winter coats, hats and gloves. Gift items are all valued at $25 or less, and conventiently, many (though not all) of the gift items may be obtained at Royal’s. Once obtained, gifts may
be dropped off at the Wayne County Community Center in Bicknell until December 16. Drop off times are Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 10am and 2pm, and Saturdays from 11am to 3pm. Last year’s gift donations through Angel Tree provided three gifts each to more than 83 kids in the county, totaling donations of more than $10,000. The Senior Angel Tree program works a little differently. Each senior in the county over 84 years of age receives a gift package of 3 or 4 items, and donations are coordinated by calling Diane directly, at 491-0135. In the case of the senior Angel Tree program, cash donations are also particularly helpful. This year, more than 70 seniors are expected to receive gift packages. Donations of wrapping paper, boxes and tape, as well as volunteers to wrap gifts and accept gifts as they arrive at the community center are a big help to making some Christmas wishes come true! If you’d like to help in any way, call Diane at 491-0135. —Insider Report
Garfield County’s Little-Known Namesake: President James Abram Garfield by Jerry Roundy
On March 9, 1882, Utah Territorial Governor Eli H. Murray signed an act of the territorial legislature that created Garfield County from territory taken from part of Iron County. The new county was named for President James A. Garfield who had recently been assassinated by a deranged, disappointed office seeker, Charles J. Guiteau. Recently I asked several people what they knew about James A. Garfield, the namesake of Garfield County, and the reply from most of them was, “not much.” Some didn’t even know he was a president of the United States, and had no idea how Garfield County got its name. I have since wondered how many other people in Garfield County know very little about the man for whom the County is named. James A. Garfield was a deeply religious man, and a man of great integrity. We should be proud that Garfield County bears his name. Garfield was born November 19, 1831, in Moreland Hills, Ohio to Abram and Eliza Garfield, who were honest, hard working people. James’s father died at age thirty-three when James was but seventeen months old. Even by the standards of the hardscrabble rural area in which they lived, Garfield was raised in desperate circumstances. His mother was left with debts that forced her to sell much of their land, but she and James’s older brother were determined that James would get an education. In the fall of 1851 Garfield was enrolled in a preparatory school in northern Ohio called the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute. Garfield later wrote that this was his “chance to become an educat-
President James A. Garfield ed man.” He paid for his tuition by doing janitorial work, chopping wood, building fires and ringing the school bell. Garfield soon learned that he was a gifted student and “the more he learned the more ambitious he became.” He was such a vigorous student that by the second year the school promoted him from janitor to assistant professor. The subjects he was asked to teach were literature, mathematics and ancient languages. Garfield became fluent in several languages. In 1854 Garfield enroled in William College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. After graduating with honors he returned to teach at Eclectic Institute. Two years later, at age twenty-six, he became the school’s president.
A year later Garfield joined the Republican Party after campaigning for the antislavery platform in Ohio. He married Lucretia Rudolph in 1858, and in 1860 was admitted to practice law while serving as an Ohio State Senator (1859-1861). Garfield opposed Confederate secession, and when the war broke out he was commissioned a Lt. Col. in the Union Army. He was soon promoted to Colonel and when the war came to a close he was a Major General. In the fall of 1862 Garfield was elected to the U.S. Congress, receiving nearly twice as many votes as his opponent, although he had done nothing to promote his candidacy. Technically he was still a member of the military and did not take his seat in Con-
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gress until Abraham Lincoln personally asked him to. He wrote home from Washington that he had resigned his commission in the army with “. . .regret, for I had hoped not to leave the field till every insurgent state had returned to its allegiance.” The Republican National Convention was held in Chicago early in June of 1880. Presidential candidates were not chosen like they are today but names were placed in nomination at the convention and then a vote was taken. Sometimes it took days and multiple votes before a candidate was chosen. On the fourth day of the convention Garfield had agreed to place in nomination the name of John Sherman, of whom he was not terribly fond, but did so because Sherman had asked him to. As Garfield made his way to the podium the crowd was chanting Grant, Grant, Grant, meaning General President Ulysses S, Grant who had served two terms as President following the Civil War, but was now being asked to serve a third term. At the end of his nominating speech the hall was silent, impressed with his eloquence. He then asked a simple question. “And now, gentlemen of the Convention, what do we want?” From the midst of the crowd came an unexpected, and for Garfield, unwelcome answer. “We want Garfield.” Garfield had no desire to be president. On the first ballot Grant received 304 votes, James E. Blaine, 284 and John Sherman 74. Little changed on the second ballot, but on the
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