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March 2006 Employee Promotions
Craig Osban is the new local service representative in service area 50. Craig has been with MVEA for 12 years and was formerly the maintenance foreman.
Mary Jane Braum is our newest employee. She was working at MVEA as a receptionist through Add Staff and is now employed by MVEA in that same position. We hope she will enjoy working for our co-op. Essay Contest Winner
Claire is invited to attend the Colorado Electric Education Institute's Cooperative Youth Leadership Camp in July in Clark, Colorado. Approximately 100 students from Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Wyoming gather at Glen Eden Resort to participate in leadership activities, form and run their own cooperative, tour a generating plant and coalmine and get a better understanding of how our government operates. There is also plenty of time for social activities, barbeques, dances and banquets. Congratulations to Claire and following is her winning essay. Cooperatives and their Benefits A cooperative is an organization owned by and operated for the benefit of those who use its services, and quite frankly, our small community of Limon, Colorado, would be lost without them. Cooperatives are formed to provide their members with goods and services or economic benefits not provided by the market place. Members of a cooperative participate in decision-making and share in the profits generated by the organization's activities. To begin, there are a wide variety of cooperatives including: consumer, housing, agricultural, worker, and rural utility cooperatives. Consumer cooperatives operate businesses in the retail department including anything from a pharmacy to a hardware store. Housing cooperatives are home for some whom owning a house is not within reach, and find it possible through a housing cooperative. Agricultural cooperatives offer individual farmers clout in the marketplace by acting as their buying and selling agents. Worker cooperatives are owned and operated by their employees and are present in almost any industry. Lastly, rural utility cooperatives have played a very important role in serving the needs of rural America, especially electric cooperatives that have brought power to over 80 percent of the land area in America, including Limon. Mountain View Electric is a rural-utility company. Without them, we would be paying an astronomical amount of money for electricity out here on the plains because we would have to get our energy from a city. Not only would prices skyrocket, but if the power went out, it would be hours before the electricity could get running again. Having Mountain View right in our community is essential because Mountain View does so much more than just provide their customers with affordable energy and quick service. They go the extra mile. When billing customers, they round up to the nearest dollar, but instead of using that extra dime or quarter, they put it into a fund that benefits our community and members of Mountain View. They use that money in sponsoring camps for kids, a scholarship, Colorado Country Life Magazine , a chili-cook off, a trip to Washington, D.C. and Clark, Colorado, and other beneficial projects in Limon. Mountain View is also a great employer. It is a place where people want to work, and they treat their employees very well, giving them great benefits. They work from within the company, meaning one has to work their way up in their cooperative. Also, they are setting a great example in our community by only having four-day workweeks, thus saving a whole day of energy. Mountain view does not only work hard to keep energy costs low, but they are very involved in the community, which is incredibly important especially in rural areas because without them many of the events and programs we take pride in would not happen. We are so fortunate to have cooperatives like Mountain View that are honest, ethical, helpful, and always put their members first, because without them, we would surely be left in the dark.
New Employee
Western Heritage Many folks think Limon, Colorado is way out in the plains. But in fact, it is only about 1 hour away from Colorado Springs. During the summer and fall, the town hosts several festivals including the Western Festival, Limon Heritage Days and a classic car show.
On June 24, you can bring the whole family to the Great Culpepper-Merriweather Circus. Performances are at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. and tickets can be purchased in advance at $8 for adults and children under 12 - $6. For more information on the circus, call Limon Chamber of Commerce at 719-775-9418. So, hop in your buggy and come on out east for a heck of a good time! |
2006 News Archive
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MVEA
has seen quite a few changes in job positions over the last month by
employees. Ted Brewer is the new Falcon construction foreman. He was
formerly a local service representative. Ted has been employed by MVEA
for 21 years. 
Mike
Fields, a lineman in the Falcon Operations Center, has moved into the
Falcon maintenance foreman position. Mike has been with MVEA for 35
years. 
Connie
Manning will have to fill some pretty big shoes around May 1 when she
moves into retiring Sharon Moon's operations clerk position. Connie
is currently a consumer relations representative in Falcon and has been
with the co-op for almost two years. Congratulations to all of these
employees on their new jobs. 
This
year's second place winner in MVEA's essay contest is Claire Taussig.
She is the daughter of Kim and Dave Taussig of Limon and a junior at
Limon High School. Some of the activities that Claire participates in
are cheerleading, dance, speech, the International Club, Student Council,
and SADD. She also enjoys singing, writing and politics. 
Debbie Doven is our newest MVEA employee. She has filled the cashier
position in the Falcon Operations Center. Farmers State Bank formerly
employed Debbie. Some of the duties included in her new position are
daily processing and balancing of all cash received by mail, at the
cashier's counter, drive-up window and in the night depositories; preparing
a daily cash collection report and corresponding bank deposits and greeting
and assisting members and visitors in the Falcon office. We welcome
Debbie and hope she enjoys working for our co-op. 
Experience
the “real” west at the 15th Annual Western Festival June 9-10. The weekend
kicks off with a noon trail ride through historic ranches. You'll have
a beautiful sweeping view of the high plains during the ride and enjoy
a barbeque dinner and campfire sing-a-long at Frasier's River Bend Ranch.
Everyone is invited to camp at the site. On Saturday morning, you'll
saddle up for the six-mile ride along the Big Sandy Creek into Limon
to participate in the parade thorough downtown Limon. The parade starts
at 10:30 a.m. and will have over 200 horses, including the Westernaires,
carriages, riding groups and rodeo queens. Throughout the day, there
will be displays and activities for children of all ages: a barbeque
at the park, free tours of the museum and its grounds and a 1 p.m. arena
show, featuring the Westernaires, and a gymkhana. Children can take
part in some of the events whether or not they have a horse. At 2 p.m.,
cowboy poets and blue grass musicians will take the stage. For more
information on the trail ride and Western Festival, call 719-541-2736.
The
award-winning Limon Heritage Museum, a little jewel dedicated to celebrating
the heritage of the plains, will be open and as always, free to the
public. The center of the museum complex is the 1910 Limon Union Pacific-Rock
Island Depot, recently placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The complex also includes five railroad cars, among them a restored
1914 lunch counter diner, as well as a pioneer school house; seven vintage
windmills; and the new exhibit building. The new building has professionally
designed displays and carefully preserved artifacts depicting the unique
history of Colorado's eastern plains. A large collection of antique
farm equipment, a prairie monument and arbor, and a lovely park and
garden complete the setting. This year the museum will have 5 new displays
highlighting ranching, pioneer churches, heirloom handiwork, depot memories
and the 1990 Limon tornado. Call 719-775-8605 for museum information.
The museum is open June 1 – September 4, 1-8 p.m., Monday-Saturday and
FREE!