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News Release
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jim Cooper, Key Accounts & Marketing Mgr., Traverse City Light & Power
Phone: (231) 932-4560 or E-mail: jcooper@tclp.org
Contact: Phil Callighan, Sr. Account Executive, Knorr Marketing
Phone: (231) 947-9707, ext. 207; Mobile: (231) 342-7590
or E-mail: philc@knorrmarketing.com
Free Food, Free Giveaways at L&P Open House Oct. 3
(Event Marks Beginning of Public Power Week)
(Traverse City, Michigan) — Traverse City Light and Power (www.tclp.org) has announced plans for an Open House on Saturday, October 3 from 11 to 3 at their Hastings Street office (1131 Hastings Street). According to L&P, all customers and their families are invited for free food and beverages, free hardhats to the first 200 kids, free compact fluorescent light bulbs, live demonstrations (including bucket truck operation, pole climbing, and electricity safety ), free prize drawings every half hour (including restaurants and a climb of the L&P wind turbine) and more!
“This event marks the beginning of Public Power Week,” said Linda Johnson, Chairperson of the Traverse City Light & Power Board of Directors. “We’re joining over 2,000 other electric utilities whose communities provide over 43 million Americans electric services on a locally-owned, not-for-profit basis. It’s our way of saying ‘thank-you’ to our customers and gives us a chance to point out all that we do to provide safe, reliable, low-cost electricity.”
Johnson added that municipal ownership also decreases the tax burden on citizens
by providing additional funding for the operating budgets for all city departments, such as police, fire, streets and Parks & Recreation. In fact, Mike Coco, Vice-Chair of the L&P Board will be presenting a check on behalf of the utility to the City of Traverse City in the amount of $1,460,460 at Monday night’s (9-21-07) meeting of the City Commissioners. The check represents 5% of L&P’s gross revenues received during the fiscal year of July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009 and will be applied to the City’s general fund.
That same evening, a mayoral proclamation citing October 3 – 10 as Public Power Week and how How Traverse City Light & Power Helps “Power” our Community will be presented by the City Commission to Mr. Coco.
Public Power Week is a national, annual event sponsored in conjunction with the American Public Power Association (APPA) in Washington, D.C. APPA is the service organization for community-owned electric utilities.
Details about L&P’s October 3 Open House are in the current L&P customer billing insert and can also be viewed on the L&P website.
Traverse City Light & Power (www.tclp.org) is a community-owned, community-focused municipal utility that offers reliable energy at low rates in the region to over 10,000 customers in Traverse City, and parts of Blair, East Bay, Elmwood, Garfield,
Peninsula and Paradise townships.
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