HIGH WEST ENERGY Your Touchstone Energy® Partner The power of human connections® CHEYENNE SERVICE CENTER UPDATE Construction has started! Richardson Construction of Cheyenne has moved on site and started digging footers. The first week of November they started laying forms for the footers. The 80’ by 150’ Chief steel maintenance building will be delivered around Janu- ary 2013; in the interim they will start construction of the 40’ x 60’ office. Aztec Construction, also from Cheyenne has finished the site prep for the winter with the exception of a couple of cleanup items. Aztec will be back on site in late March or early April to do the street paving. Wyo- ming Reclamation has seeded and planted the trees. We should start seeing the site take shape as we go into the holidays. HWE has rented a building in south Chey- enne for many years. This new facility will allow us improved accessibility to the members in and around Cheyenne including better response time in case of any outages or emergencies. Approximately 25% of our member accounts reside within 10 miles of this new facility. The new building is east of Cheyenne off of I-80 at the Archer interchange on the north side of Highway 30. Tom Romig HWE Special Projects Coordinator
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SparkSHIGH WEST ENERGY
Your Touchstone Energy® PartnerThe power of human connections®
CHEYENNE SERVICE CENTER UPDATE
Construction has started! Richardson Construction of Cheyenne has moved on site and started digging footers. The first week of November they started laying forms for the footers.
The 80’ by 150’ Chief steel maintenance building will be delivered around Janu-ary 2013; in the interim they will start construction of the 40’ x 60’ office. Aztec Construction, also from Cheyenne has finished the site prep for the winter with the exception of a couple of cleanup items. Aztec will be back on site in late March or early April to do the street paving. Wyo-ming Reclamation has seeded and planted the trees. We should start seeing the site take shape as we go into the holidays.
HWE has rented a building in south Chey-enne for many years. This new facility will allow us improved accessibility to the members in and around Cheyenne including better response time in case of any outages or emergencies. Approximately 25% of our member accounts reside within 10 miles of this new facility.
The new building is east of Cheyenne off of I-80 at the Archer interchange on the north side of Highway 30.
Tom Romig HWE Special Projects Coordinator
High West Energy, Inc.PO Box 519
Pine Bluffs, Wy 82082-0519
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
District 11 - Troy Freeburg PH #308-673-5336 Bushnell, NEDistrict 12 - Don Wisroth PH #245-3454 Pine Bluffs, WY District 13 - Clinton Farrar PH #547-3435 Hillsdale, WY District 14 - Jerry Burnett PH #970-895-3386 Hereford, CO District 15 - Dan Acheson PH #308-235-2300 Kimball, NE District 16 - Wayne Child PH #632-5401 Cheyenne, WY District 17 - Russ Nielsen PH #308-250-4262 Potter, NE The monthly board meeting is normally held on the 4th Monday of each month.
MANAGER: Brian D. Heithoff EDITOR: Tamara McNamee
OFFICE HOURSMon-Fri - 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Open During Noon Closed Weekends - Holidays
PHONE NUMBERSOutage calls 24 hours a dayLaramie County 245-3261Toll Free 1-888-834-1657
Why does my electric bill go up during the holidays?
Co-op members use more energy during the holi-day season and bills may be higher because:
1) Holiday lights and decorations use energy; switch to energy-efficient LED holiday lights.
2) Holiday entertaining involves extra cooking and baking, which requires extra electricity.
3) Holiday guests mean more hot water for showers, laundry and dishwashing, more heating and light-ing in guest rooms and more cooking.
4) Shorter days and longer nights mean lights stay on longer, both inside and out.
5) With colder temperatures, space heaters are often used in garages, basements and other places to provide warmth.
6) Even if you don’t use electric heat, many heating systems use electricity to power fans and functions.
To save energy and money during the holidays and all year long, pick up a FREE 101 Low-Cost, No-Cost Energy Savings Brochure from High West.
UPDATE!The system wide meter read
which was to take place in November has now been moved to late
December.
ATTENTION HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS AND RETURNING COLLEGE STUDENTS!
2013-2014 Scholarship applications will be available before Christmas break. Please contact your high school counselor, advisor or contact HWE for an application.
The deadline is 4:00 p.m. February 15th, 2013
75th ANNUAL MEETINGHigh West Energy’s annual meeting was held on Saturday November 3rd at the Kimball High School in Kimball, Nebraska.
Among the highlights included, a gymnasium full of handmade items such as purses, jewelry, towels, paintings and demonstrations. Fred Wood of Pine Bluffs catered the roast beef luncheon.
Entertainment was provided by motivational entertainer Tom Johnson, from Omaha, Nebraska.
The business meeting began at 1:00. HWE Board President Russ Nielsen intro-duced special guests which included, Cara Eastwood-Baldwin from Linden and Associates, Attorney Hank Bailey, WREA Executive Director Shawn Taylor, Michael Reidman from Basin Electric, Jim Spiers from Tri-State Generation and Transmis-sion and Mike Prom from Western United Electric.
Dave Crouse, a High West employee, recited the invocation then everyone fol-lowed by the Pledge of Allegiance.
Hank Bailey, Attorney for High West Energy then read the 2012 Notice of Meeting, and dispensed with the reading of the 2011 minutes to which was passed.
Board President, Russell Nielsen provided the members with updates for bio mass fuel, hydro, and many programs that are offered either HWE, Tri-State and Touchstone Energy.
General Manager, Brian Heithoff ‘s topic “Six Questions about High West Energy” posed a question-answer format. The questions and answers consisted of:• Status of the Cheyenne Service Center (see page 1)• Franchise update from Cheyenne (Work in progress)• Co-op Connections Card Program (Helping your pocketbook)• Financial status of HWE (very strong)• Members information (HWE IT department is focused on the
strength of protecting you and your account data)• Biggest challenges that the Coop faces (updating infrastructure, increased efficiency, regulations)
Mr. Heithoff, along with the Board of Directors and employees recognized Lloyd Sisson, Director of Engineering for his 40 years of service to the cooperative and it’s members. Heithoff then introduced all employees.
Shawn Taylor, WREA Director then took the podium to speak to the mem-bership about the importance of the “grassroots” initiative . It is vital that we as members and employees to make our voices heard on federal issues that may directly influence rural areas by contacting our U.S. Represen-tative and Senators. The website “Our Energy, Our Future” is one way of
keeping up-to-date on the issues that directly effect your cooperative.
President Nielsen than announced that a quorum had been reached. District 11 nominee Troy Freeburg was re-elected and Clinton Farrar from District 13 was also re-elected. Each were elected to 3-year terms.
Following adjournment of the meeting, cash and prizes were awarded.
Thank you to, Bowman Irrigation, Farmers State Bank, WREN, Western United and ESC for donating cash and prizes.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM OUR FAMILY TO YOURS
Board of Directors:
Wayne Child * Dan Acheson * Clinton Farrar * Troy Freeburg Don Wisroth * Russ Nielsen * Jerry Burnett
*General Manager, Brian Heithoff*
Lloyd Sisson * Jerry Steele * Tom Romig * Tim Lang * Shirley Hall * Sharon Moore * Jeff Bruckner * Miles Killham * Craig Schuessler * Ken Haas * Carol Macy * Rachel Manley * Bert Macy * Tamara McNamee * Jeremy Fryda * Dean McCluskey * Ardith Cushing * Kevin Spears * Dave Crouse * Bart Wilshusen * John Ott * Terry Steege * Chris Zitek * Jim Darden * Jim McCluskey * Konnie Rask * Valerie Eastman * Mike Rotert * Don Wood * John Childress * Toby Rasmussen * Keoni Hance * Jeremy Henke * Bryan Warden * Marvin Powell * Tyler Gabel * Brenda Robbins * Ruth McCluskey * Chad Schaefer * Joe Shogrin * Zeb Birch * Lois Powell * Jesse Robbins * Bobby Sonnie * Lucas Swoyer * Jeremy Tucker
We wish all of you a happy and safe holiday season
Your High West Energy Cooperative will be closed December 24th and 25th and January 1st, 2013
