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May 4—A group of MMUA members and staff se-
<br /> lect the top four winners in the Tom Bovitz Memo-
<br /> rial Scholarship Award contest. First place, and a
<br /> - =; $2,000 scholarship, goes to Ruby Irene Redekopp of
<br /> Hutchinson.
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<br /> III ifirle*, May 17-20—members'dig' the MMUA Under
<br /> ,ti � :" ground School, at the Training Center.Attending
<br /> were nearly 70 participants from 32 municipal
<br /> ri ,,, utilities in Minnesota, three in South Dakota and
<br /> 04 ,----- ,..-+'; , .-:„.-,) three Minnesota cooperatives.
<br /> 9 June 9—Minnesota Public Utilities Commission
<br /> ' opens a docket on distributed generation tariffs of
<br /> Bill Schwandt of Moorhead, Patty and Brad Roos of 14 electric cooperatives.
<br /> Moorhead and Roger Moltzan of Detroit Lakes paused
<br /> for a picture following the Annual Conference banquet August 15-17—The state's municipals congregate
<br /> and awards ceremony. for the 85th time under the MMUA banner, at the
<br /> Annual Summer Conference, held at Cragun's
<br /> April 11 —MMPA breaks ground on the 46-mega- Resort near Brainerd. Bob Elston of Sleepy Eye as-
<br /> watt Shakopee Energy Park, one of the newest sumes the president's role from Troy Adams of Elk
<br /> generation of municipal power plants in Minnesota. River Municipal Utilities.
<br /> April 15—Eleven more municipal utility people August 16—Municipal Utilities Action Fund and
<br /> graduate from the Firstline Supervision program. MMUA Executive Leadership Program unveiled at
<br /> Annual Summer Conference.
<br /> April 16—The busy spring continues as MMUA
<br /> holds its Legislative Rally in St. Paul. The meeting September 13-16—The Overhead School, one of
<br /> is shortened to one day due to Capitol construction. MMUA's largest and most complex events, is held
<br /> at the Training Center.A total of 55 lineworkers at-
<br /> April 19-21—MMUA holds its Substation School in tend the event.
<br /> Shakopee, with 37 attending.
<br /> October 18-20— Cross Training School held at the
<br /> April 26—Crews from 21 municipal utilities con- Training Center.
<br /> verge at the rodeo grounds in Shakopee, speedily
<br /> dismantling the field that was built the previous December 6-8—MMUA holds its annual T&O Con-
<br /> fall. ference at a new location, the Best Western Kelly
<br /> Inn in St. Cloud.
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<br /> � . , MMUA held its ,.
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<br /> year at the Train- `
<br /> ing Center.
<br /> -,,,. The double-up A group of students worked on a
<br /> Jerry Williams of Rochester, Mark Fritsch of Owatonna reflects not only miniature transformer bank at the
<br /> and Troy Adams of Elk River, from left to right, played the popularity second transformer school, held
<br /> leading roles in the development of the MMUA Execu- of the training, Dec. 16 at the Training Center.
<br /> tive Leadership Program, along with MMUA Executive but a slight re-
<br /> Director Jack Kegel. shuffling of MMUA's training lineup.
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