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Co-op Elections Current democratic process doesn't need new legislative rerstrictions BY MONA NEELEY, EDITOR/PUBLISHER The new year is well underway at Colorado’s electric cooperatives. And with a new year comes a new round of board elections. Here in Colorado, electric co-op members get to vote on their board representation every year. Electric co-ops are member-owned organizations that were formed to meet their members’ need for reliable and affordable electricity. And one of the best ways they make sure they are meeting the needs of the membership in ways the membership wants is through those board members who are the elected representatives of the membership. |
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BASED ON A BOOK BY MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS AND CASEY SHERMAN  On February 18, 1952, an astonishing maritime event began when a ferocious nor’easter split a 500-foot long T2 oil tanker, the Pendleton, in half approximately one mile off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Incredibly, just 20 miles away, a second oil tanker, the Fort Mercer, also split in half. There were men trapped on the severed bows and the sterns of both tankers, and all four sections were sinking in 40-foot seas. Thus began a life and death drama for one Colorado man and his crewmates on board a tiny Coast Guard boat sent on a suicide mission to rescue the trapped men.
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