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WEATHER:
(
July 23, 2008
) WEDNESDAY – High yesterday
afternoon was 93 at
5:00
; this morning’s low was 64 at
7:00
. KPANcast: Mostly sunny and hot.
LOCAL:
Texas
oilman T. Boone Pickens took his
energy plan to
Washington
Tuesday, testifying before a
Senate committee as part of a $58 million publicity tour that he launched
two weeks ago. Pickens proposes huge wind energy installations in the
southern Great Plains to offset the use of natural gas for electricity
generation, freeing up natural gas to be converted to transportation
needs……Pickens asked lawmakers to begin building transmission lines to
connect wind energy to customers, or to allow tax credits and
right-of-ways so that private companies could build the lines…..For the
second day Tuesday Xcel Energy issued an energy alert, asking for
customers to reduce electricity demand until after 7:00pm. High air
conditioning use and irrigation well demand combined with maintenance
problems to tax Xcel’s power grid the past two days. The possibility of
outages has diminished today, as maintenance work on the Harrington
natural gas plant in
Amarillo
and the coal-fired Tolk station
at Muleshoe was completed…… Hereford Farmer’s Market opens at
4:00
today at the east edge of
Dameron
Park
on
Park Avenue
, with fresh fruits and veggies
from local growers. WIC vouchers and cash are accepted…….Funeral mass
for Jose Balderaz, 82, will be held at
11:00
Friday at San Jose Catholic
Church. He was a longtime resident who had worked as a sheep shearer…..
KPAN salutes Carl Parker as the Good Neighbor of the Day……Dignified,
professional and affordable care at Hereford Heritage Funeral Home.
KPAN
PUN: Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.
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