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by KENT SINGER, CREA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR “An act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit.” The strength of the electric cooperative program is contained within this definition of the word “cooperation.” Since the beginning of the program in the 1930s, people all across Colorado have banded together in their communities to form locally owned and operated electric companies. Through the cooperation of their member-owners, these electric companies have been able to survive and to thrive in the face of many challenges.
The same is true of the Colorado Rural Electric Association. Throughout its existence, CREA has been able to accomplish great things because its members have been willing to set aside their individual interests and act together to achieve common goals. This “commitment to cooperation” has been the cornerstone of CREA’s success in becoming the effective and credible trade association that represents Colorado’s electric cooperatives today. |
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 BY CYNTHIA BECKER
Pronghorns, foxes and coyotes are common sights on Colorado’s Eastern prairie. But a subway train running in circles?
At the Transportation Technology Center, Inc., or TTCI northeast of Pueblo, you might see a subway train, a locomotive pulling freight cars or a sleek high-speed prototype vehicle traveling a circular track. It is business as usual for the world’s leading railroad research and test site.
TTCI boasts 48 miles of specialized railroad tracks that loop across 52 square miles of open prairie. It is a place where locomotives and other vehicles, track components and signaling devices are evaluated. TTCI is equipped to shake, rattle and roll railroad equipment and measure the effects. Railroad companies and suppliers fund research to improve railroad safety and extend the life of rail, bridges, special track and track components.
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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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