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Late August and early September find many of us filling backpacks with new pencils, full glue bottles, Dana Kelroy, Editor and boxes of crayons, then loading youngsters on the bus for the first day of school. New and even veteran co-op employees and directors might find themselves going back to a slightly different kind of school. The Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Association (WECA) publishes this magazine for members of the state’s electric cooperatives. The organization also provides lobbying representation for cooperatives, educational opportunities, and a host of other services. Those educational opportunities are designed to help cooperative employees and directors understand the scope of their responsibilities and better serve you, the co-op member. “WECA provides a comprehensive education program to address the broad range of issues faced when working for a cooperative,” said Wendy Fassbind, director of events and education coordinator. “Co-op business decisions are made for the members, all of whom have a vote in electing their board.” “Few people hired by a co-op or elected to the board come on board with a full understanding of the legal responsibilities or duties to the membership that are specific to the cooperative way of doing business. That’s why even long-serving directors and employees continue to benefit from educational programs,” said Fassbind. Of course the top priority is that co-op member-owners be the ones who benefit most from co-op people going back to school. 1
September 2017 Vol. 78 No. 3 The Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News (Formerly Wisconsin R.E.C. News) has been published monthly and distributed since July 1940 to members of Wisconsin’s non-profit, consumer-owned rural electric cooperatives. It is available to non-members for $10 per year or $28 for three years. Published by the Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Association, 222 W. Washington Ave., Ste. 680, Madison, WI 53703. Steve Freese, president & CEO. USPS number: 688-480. Postmaster: please send address changes to Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News, 222 W. Washington Ave., Ste. 680, Madison, WI 53703. Periodicals postage paid at Baraboo, Wis. Send correspondence to Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News, 222 W. Washington Ave., Ste. 680, Madison, WI 53703. Phone (608) 467-4650. Web site: www.wecnmagazine.com. Co-op Members: Please send address changes to your local electric co-op. Contact information can be found on page 18. Steve Freese Dana Kelroy Mary Erickson David Hoopman Ann Bailey Tina Walden Geri Miller
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Sponsored by local electric cooperatives across the state, more than 120 students took part in this summer’s 54th Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Association (WECA) Youth Leadership Congress at UW-River Falls. Here, students participate in a team-building exercise, and the freshly elected WECA Youth Board for the coming year poses for their first portrait together, seen l-r, William Tuchtenhagen, Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services; Conor O’Donnell, Oakdale Electric; Sam Peterson, Oakdale Electric; Gracelyn Footit, Adams-Columbia Electric; Brady Coullthard, Clark Electric; and Darien Traczyk, Barron Electric. The annual event brings high school students together with top-flight speakers to learn the principles behind the cooperative business model and the fundamentals of organizing and operating a co-op. The elected board takes on the responsibility of planning the following year’s event.
JUMP RIVER NAMES NEW MANAGER
James Anderson, formerly of Tanner Electric Cooperative in North Bend, Washington, was named in August as the new general manager at Jump River Electric Cooperative. Anderson was to take over the duties from David Oelkers, who had been leading the Ladysmith-based co-op on an interim basis since April. Anderson, who has worked for inves-
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tor-owned utilities and cooperatives in Oregon and Montana, had been operations and engineering manager at Tanner Electric. He brings experience in electric generation, transmission, distribution, metering, substation construction and maintenance; holds journeyman classifications as a lineman and substation wireman; and is also a meter/relay technician. Jump River Electric serves more than 8,400 rural members over 1,759 miles of distribution line in parts of Barron, Chippewa, Price, Rusk, Sawyer, and Taylor Counties. An Iowa native, Klassen had been a U.S. Navy submariner and a Wisconsin resident since his 1997 retirement from the military. He was elected to the Price Electric board in 2013 and was re-elected to a second term last year. He is survived by Sharon, his wife of 39 years, two adult sons, and one brother.
Former Wisconsin Congressman Mark Green won U.S. Senate confirmation in August as administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Association CEO Steve Freese— who shared a Capitol office with Green during the 1990s when both served in the state Assembly—said Green’s appointment will strengthen the partnership through which U.S. electric co-op volunteers working through USAID have brought electric power to more than 120 million people in 43 countries over the past 55 years. Green, who served four terms in Congress before running unsuccessfully for governor in 2006, subsequently served as U.S. ambassador to Tanzania. Meanwhile, former National Rural Electric Cooperative Association lobbyist Neal Chatterjee was confirmed by the Senate in August to fill a vacancy on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Chatterjee’s confirmation, along with those of two additional nominees, restores a quorum to the five-member regulatory panel that had been unable to conduct substantive business since February because of vacancies. The FERC oversees federal permitting for electric transmission and pipelines and has a major role in regulation of interstate wholesale power markets.
CONSUMERS LOSING IN ILLINOIS RETAIL COMPETITION
The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) has determined that residential customers choosing alternative electricity suppliers are paying significantly higher prices than those staying with their incumbent utility. In July, Crain’s Chicago Business reported that for the 12 months ending May 31, Chicago-area households using alternative suppliers paid $152 million more than if they’d stayed with Commonwealth Edison. The 2011 start of residential retail competition in Illinois brought substantial consumer savings that have since been negated by year-on-year price increases beginning in 2014, the ICC found.
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Since the peak storm season began this spring, damaging weather has affected many parts of rural Wisconsin. Tornados, high winds, lightning, heavy rains, and flooding have caused significant damage to a number of electric cooperative distribution systems, prompting activation of mutual assistance among multiple co-ops to get the lights back on as soon as it could safely be done. Right after one of those storms I received a call from a co-op member who was upset because his power hadn’t yet been restored and he thought it was taking too long. The storm had hit the night before. The member said it didn’t matter to him that roads remained Steve Freese President and CEO impassable because of flooding and downed trees; the co-op should have his electricity back on by now. He went on to say his neighbors, served by an investor-owned utility, would already be back in service. The member said he called his co-op multiple times to report his outage and was upset that it wasn’t a local person taking his call but someone from the Cooperative Response Center in another state. I assured him this differed from talking with the local co-op only in that the response center has the resources necessary to handle thousands of phone calls reporting outages and to help dispatch line crews to the right locations. The caller, it seemed to me, was being totally unreasonable. It surprised me and made me think about the safeguards in place to help co-ops restore power as quickly as possible. On the other hand, there’s no reason to assume people would be familiar with those safeguards, so maybe some explanation is in order. One such safeguard is the Cooperative Response Center, making sure a live person is available to receive and act upon outage reports no matter when the outages occur. And few probably realize Wisconsin electric cooperatives all participate in a program we call ROPE, for “Restoration of Power in an Emergency.” So far this summer we’ve seen four ROPE deployments with more than 80 workers from 11 different electric cooperatives traveling to assist other co-ops across the state. Responding to tornado damage, straight-line winds, flooding, and lightning, Wisconsin cooperatives come together to restore power as quickly as possible. The angry caller also caused me to think about how electric cooperatives fare in comparison with other types of utilities. In a recently published study, the global marketing information services company J.D. Power examined overall residential electric utility customer
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The legislative actions aside, the two court rulings could arguably be labeled as the beginning of the U.S. nuclear power industry’s first winning streak in a long time. Whether the streak continues will be up to at least a half-dozen other judges, higher up the judicial food chain in the federal appellate courts. If the appeals in two different federal circuits eventually yield markedly different answers to markedly similar questions, the possibility of the United States Supreme Court ultimately settling the matter would be greatly enhanced. And at whatever level the issues are considered, a crucial question can be framed in two starkly different ways: Is it permissible for nuclear generation to lawfully be subsidized by government? Or, is the nuclear contingent the only element of the electric generation sector that lawfully can’t be?
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The issues now working their way through the federal courts began taking shape a couple of years ago, as Chicago-based Exelon Corp., owner of the nation’s biggest fleet of nuclear power plants, turned to the Illinois Legislature for help covering the expenses of two plants operated by Exelon’s Commonwealth Edison (Com Ed) affiliate.
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It was a classic case of supply-and-demand economics with a little government intervention mixed in: Giant shale gas discoveries upended what in the early 2000s had been a looming natural gas shortage and turned it into a glut, making gas the generation fuel of choice; wind generation subsidized by federal tax credits and made a “must purchase” item by state renewable energy mandates gained advantage in regional wholesale power markets; and not surprisingly, Com Ed found its Illinois nukes no longer able to compete on price. It was also a classic case of Illinois politics: Pony up, or we’ll shut down lots of emission-free generation and lay off thousands of your constituents. But if, as a cynic might have assumed, Com Ed was manufacturing a dilemma for political and economic purposes, its story was easy enough to check. The company said its Clinton and Quad Cities plants had lost a combined $800 million between 2009 and the end of last year, and their increasing difficulty having bids accepted in regional wholesale power markets was a matter of public record. In June of last year and with the Illinois legislative session about to end, Exelon failed in its second try to get a subsidy bill approved. The company immediately announced the Clinton plant, licensed to run until 2026, would be retired June 1 this year. Quad Cities, licensed until 2032, would permanently shut down June 1, 2018. But lawmakers returned for a veto session last December and on the third attempt, Com Ed brought the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Environmental Defense Fund on board by amending the bill to increase ratepayer-funded spending for energy efficiency programs to $400 million annually. The bill passed, and instead of the Clinton plant’s retirement, June 1 marked the first day of a ratepayer subsidy Com Ed says will cost its average customer no more than 25 cents per month. Opponents said it would
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Exelon Loves NY If the threatened loss of carbon dioxide emission-free generation was a constant presence in Illinois’ lengthy deliberations, it was front and center in the much more abbreviated debate over state subsidies for economically challenged nuclear plants in upstate New York. The dynamics are similar, as are the players, but actions last year by the State of New York added some urgency. Last year, Governor Andrew Cuomo committed his state to obtain 50 percent of its electricity from renewable generation by 2030, and to reduce its aggregate carbon dioxide emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels on the same timetable. Cuomo and others saw that the emission reduction target would be unachievable if three nuclear plants on the shore of Lake Ontario were retired ahead of schedule. Their owner—once again Exelon—had indicated that absent subsidies it would take that action because the plants were losing money. As this situation unfolded last year Exelon was in the process of purchasing one of the three money-losing plants from New Orleans-based Entergy Corp., owner of the nation’s next-biggest nucle-
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and purchased power costs) by $400 million this year and $600 million in 2019. Like the Illinois legislation, the New York enactment was immediately challenged in court.
The Opposition Critics of the nuclear subsidies naturally include groups claiming to speak for consumers and objecting to higher utility bills. In New York, Citizens Against Corporate Bailouts, described in a February Associated Press story as “a conservative free market group,” allied itself with “liberal environmental advocates” who evidently dislike nuclear generation even more than carbon dioxide emissions. The alliance came out against the subsidies and drew fire from a Cuomo spokesman who, in a veritable festival of mixed metaphors, referred to the group as “D.C. shills” who were “carrying Big Oil’s water.” But higher-profile opposition and the thus-far unsuccessful legal challenges have come not from consumers, but from non-utility energy companies, organized for power sales into deregulated wholesale markets and power marketing in states that allow retail electric competition. Plaintiffs in the Illinois and New York lawsuits include the trade organizations Electric Power Supply Association and Coalition for Competitive Electricity and—there is overlap—individual member companies like Calpine, Dynegy, and NRG Energy, to name a few. Plaintiff claims include the argument that state subsidies unlawfully thwart the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) ability to regulate wholesale electricity markets by enabling Exelon plants to sell power below their production cost, and that they violate the Constitution’s commerce clause by intervening in competitive markets operating across state lines. They’ve also argued that the resulting increase in the supply of electricity reduces the prices competing generators are able to obtain. So far two judges have disagreed but there is a long way to go, and plaintiffs take solace in a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision. In Hughes v. Talen Energy Marketing, the high court ruled 8-0 against a Maryland program adopted in response to concerns that low wholesale prices were threatening the adequacy of generation capacity by providing no economic incentive to build new facilities. The Maryland program called for a state contract with a developer to build a new natural gas-fired plant, bid its output into the wholesale market at a specified rate, and be made whole by utilities and others serving Maryland consumers if the mandated bid price wound up losing
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money for the developer. The Supreme Court said that infringed on the FERC’s authority. In the New York case, Judge Valerie Caproni rejected the Maryland argument, saying the subsidy “does not adjust or ‘set’ the amount of money that a generator receives in exchange for the generator’s sale of energy or capacity into the [wholesale market] auction.”
Are Nukes Unique? No form of energy production in the United States goes without a subsidy of some kind, though some subsidies are more direct than others. Prior to the recent Illinois and New York actions, in March 2015 the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) published a report titled Energy Tax Incentives: Measuring Value Across Different Types of Energy Resources. It was created to inform congressional committees and staff and evaluated “tax expenditures”— federalese for revenue collections foregone in pursuit of policy objectives—and, among many other things, direct subsidy spending on electricity production. The data presented in such reports always lags by a few years but broad trends are clear. Looking at the “estimated revenue cost of energy tax provisions” for the 2010 through 2014 fiscal years, the CRS found tax expenditures totaling $20.1 billion benefiting fossil fuels, $4.1 billion benefiting the nuclear sector, and $40.7 billion for renewables, much of it in tax credits but the largest share through “grants in lieu of tax credits.” A table showing direct subsidies to electricity production by fuel type showed—for fiscal year 2013, the latest available— 27 percent of all subsidies going to utility-scale solar, 37 percent to wind, and 10 percent to nuclear. Fossil fuel categories received single-digit percentages. None of this either justifies or discredits the Illinois or New York subsidy programs, but it does underscore the involvement of taxpayer subsidies in every type of U.S. energy production and clarifies the reality that some energy sources criticized for receiving government largesse actually receive comparatively little. Over the next couple of years, the federal judiciary will determine the fate of Exelon’s nuclear preservation efforts, and might answer a question probably no one realized they were asking: whether, among all our methods of electricity production, nuclear fission is uniquely unworthy of taxpayer support. One can hope the answer will emerge from sober reflection on what we’re really trying to do. —Dave Hoopman
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Where your voice makes a difference Q&A with co-op historian Ted Case Ted Case has spent the past several years diving deeply into unexplored parts of electric co-op history. He described how co-ops have affected national policy since the 1930s in his first book, Power Plays: The U.S. Presidency, Electric Cooperatives, and the Transformation of Rural America. The title of his second, just-released book is self-explanatory: Poles, Wires, and War: The Remarkable Untold Story of Rural Electrification and the Vietnam War. Case is executive director of the Oregon Rural Electric Cooperative Association. He recently talked about what the history of electric co-ops means for their member-owners.
Question: How did you end up writing about electric co-ops in the Vietnam War? Case: It came out of my first book and
the chapter on President Lyndon Johnson. In 1965, he received a letter from the general manager of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Clyde Ellis, saying that NRECA could help win the war by putting electric coops in Vietnam. I was intrigued by that bold claim. Since Johnson was such an early and strong supporter of rural electrification in Texas, he embraced Ellis’s proposal fully. Learning about that story led me on this quest to track down some of the men and women who had worked on it.
Q: Did NRECA start co-ops in Vietnam? Case: It was a really good effort. Just 20 men went over there in a five-year
period. These were the most difficult co-ops to establish in the history of the electric co-op program. The Viet Cong soldiers that were fighting against the South Vietnamese tried to cut down the co-op lines and chop down their poles and blow up their dams and they did all those things. The people trying to start the co-ops faced rampant corruption and an inability to get poles and other materials. They got three co-ops up and running and brought light to thousands of villagers. But the program ended and they had to leave and the communists overtook the country.
Q: What lessons did you learn from researching the book? Case: The support the U.S. co-op workers got from the Vietnamese villagers was not unlike the support from the farmers who started electric co-ops in the United States in the 1930s. The Vietnamese villagers wanted a radio.
They wanted an iron and lights to read. Toward the end of the war when the communists were rolling through the country in 1975, they came to a town that was one of the co-ops’ headquarters. The militia in the town rose up and fought against the communists in one of the most heroic battles of the war. They were fighting for their electricity. They were fighting for what they had built.
Q: Has researching these books changed your view of electric co-ops? Case: I have a greater appreciation.
Our heritage is so much a part of who we are, and there’s not many people who remember when the lights came on anymore, so that’s different. But the core values of what co-ops do are the same as in 1936 when the Rural Electrification Act became law.
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Q: What are those values? Case: I think of one particular co-op,
about medium-sized and close to an urban area. It has several thousand people who come to the office to pay their bills. They don’t need to do that—it’s a lot easier to just toss the bill in the mail or pay online. But they go in because the co-op has this value beyond just electric service. It really is the center of everything in the town and economic driver. That sums up how the co-op is not just not a power company. It’s the center of their world.
Q: Does that kind of relationship really apply in this increasingly hightech world in a high-tech industry? Case: As I travel the country, I’m blown
away by the technical acumen and the vision and the strategic abilities of co-op leaders to see into the future. Electric co-ops are getting involved in providing broadband internet connections at a time when nobody else will do it. It’s the same innovation that brought electricity to rural areas.
Q: Can a co-op be successful providing technologies as different as electricity and broadband? Case: Co-ops will embrace new technologies when that’s what their members want. Members say they’re interested in solar energy and other utility innovations, like developing advanced batteries that could increase reliability and store renewable energy for times when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing. Co-ops never strayed from that business model that listens and responds to their members, their customers, their owners.
Q: Can’t some of these new ventures be risky? Case: Definitely. And that brings out another strength of member ownership—the control is local. Providing internet and other services won’t make sense for all of the more than 900 coops across the country. There are very difficult decisions being made in co-op board rooms, and history shows there is tremendous wisdom that comes out of
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Q: How does that member-owned business model relate to the basic mission of keeping electricity reliable and affordable? Case: Co-ops continue to be very com-
petitive, in rates, service, and reliability. And there are so many other things they do for their members. It comes back to that local connection. Members know the folks who work at the co-op. They know the directors. There’s terrific customer service getting the lights back on after an outage. Electric reliability is very important and co-ops do that as well as anyone.
Q: One characteristic of electric co-ops is their not-for-profit nature. How does that affect the co-op members? Case: A lot. Increasingly, institutions have fallen from grace because everybody believes there’s this profit motive that’s just out to milk you and there’s such a lack of trust in a lot of the large institutions. Being not-for-profit is an attractive feature that means decisions are based on the best interest of the coop and the consumer.
Q: So what should members know about their electric co-op? Case: That they have the ability to in-
fluence their co-op more than they ever imagined. Co-op board members that I know are really interested in hearing from folks and getting feedback. One person can really make a huge difference. When somebody shows up at a co-op annual meeting and has a point to make, the boards take it seriously. The co-op’s management takes it seriously. That’s the value. It’s pretty hard to get heard these days. But at a co-op, your voice makes a difference.
Paul Wesslund writes on cooperative issues for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the Arlington, Va.-based service arm of the nation’s 900-plus consumer-owned, not-for-profit electric cooperatives.
Lighting up a war zone The audacious story of electric co-ops in Vietnam By Paul Wesslund During one of the hardest chapters in American history, electric co-ops volunteered to win the war in Vietnam. They didn’t win the war, but in his new book Poles, Wires and War, The Remarkable Untold Story of Rural Electrification and the Vietnam War, author Ted Case tells a riveting story of how they tried. He argues that the success electric coops had in the conflict that divided our nation just might have helped that southeast Asian nation recover more quickly by demonstrating the value of bringing electricity to the countryside. Case brings authority to the book as executive director of the Oregon Rural Electric Cooperative Association. But he also makes good use of his master’s degree in fiction writing to tell a compelling story of an audacious offer from Clyde Ellis, the head of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, to President Lyndon Johnson. Give the South Vietnamese electricity, said Ellis, and you’ll win their hearts and minds in the fight against communism. What followed was a classic battle of enormous personalities, foreign and domestic political and military maneuvering, and a determined band of people who brought electricity to the American countryside, fighting the odds to bring light to a war zone halfway around the world. Case creates a fast-paced narrative as the crews race the collapsing war to pass bylaws, organize the co-ops and tangle with corruption, bureaucracy, infighting, and oh yes, Viet Cong soldiers determined to destroy what they were creating. In the end, in less than four years, three electric co-ops were bringing electricity to more than 8,000 members. It was a service the South Vietnamese villagers valued and owned. They even felt strongly enough to literally fight for it, in a doomed battle against an assault from Viet Cong tanks. Case creates a highly readable, deep, and unique American history of overcoming the highest of hurdles to show people how they could bring power to themselves, first in America, and then to the world. The book is available at TedCaseAuthor.com.
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On a cookie sheet or plate, lay out your apple slices. Spread marshmallow cream and chocolate on half of apples. Spread peanut butter on remaining apples. Sandwich each peanut butter-apple with a marshmallow/chocolate apple and enjoy.
Photos and recipes courtesy of the U.S. Apple Association and usapple.org.
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Brainy Apple Avocado Breakfast Salad 1 avocado 1 apple 1 Tbsp raisins 1 Tbsp walnuts 1/2 Tbsp honey 1 tsp vanilla 1/4 tsp cinnamon
Peel and chop apple. Place in bowl with a drop of water. Microwave on high for 1 minute. Stir; microwave for 30 seconds longer. Cool apples. (This step is to make them the same texture—soft—as the avocado.) While your apples are cooling, mix together honey, vanilla, and cinnamon, until well combined. Drain any water from your bowl of apples. Chop your avocado and add it to the apples. Pour honey sauce over avocados and apples. Add raisins and walnuts, and stir gently.
Cider-Baked Chicken and Sausage 1 large onion, cut into eighths 1 large lemon, sliced into rounds 2 cups apple cider 1/4 cup olive oil 1/4 cup chopped fresh sage, plus more for garnish 2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar 2 tsp Dijon mustard 2 bay leaves 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper 4 chicken legs 4 chicken thighs 1 pkg (12 oz) chicken-apple sausage 2 large apples, each sliced into eighths 1 lb small, red-skinned potatoes, halved
Place a gallon size heavy-duty zip-top bag into a large bowl. Place the onion and next 9 ingredients into the zip-top bag, combining well. Add the chicken and chicken-apple sausage to the marinade. Close the bag and place in the refrigerator to marinate for at least 4 hours or up to 24 hours. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Arrange the chicken pieces in a large roasting pan, skin-side up. Pour all of the marinade, including onions and lemons over and around the pieces. Tuck the sausages, apples, and potatoes around the chicken. Cook for 1 hour and 15 minutes, turning sausages about halfway through to cook evenly. Arrange chicken, sausages, and potatoes on a platter and sprinkle with chopped fresh sage.
Apple-Loaded Shortbread Cookies 1 lb unsalted butter, room temp 1-1/4 cups granulated sugar 1-1/4 tsp vanilla extract 4-1/4 cups all-purpose flour, sifted 2 tsp kosher salt
1-1/3 cups Empire apples (or similar variety), skin on, small dice Apple cider Favorite mascarpone frosting recipe
In stand mixer, add butter and sugar. Blend with paddle attachment or electric beaters until mixture is light yellow. Add vanilla. Sift in flour and salt. Add small pieces of apple and continue blending, using hands, until incorporated. Remove dough, use a little flour (if needed), and work into a long roll (dough log). Wrap dough in plastic and chill for 45–60 minutes until butter sets. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove dough from fridge. Slice into 1/2-inch circles and place onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden. Remove from oven and cool. Cookies will harden as they cool. Top with apple cider and mascarpone frosting.
Chunky Apple Butterscotch Bars
3/4 cup unbleached flour 3/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt
1-1/2 sticks unsalted butter, melted, plus more for pan 1-1/2 cups light brown sugar 2 large eggs 1 tsp vanilla
3 cups finely chopped apples, leave the peels on 1/2 cup butterscotch chips
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 13x9-inch rectangular baking pan and reserve. In a large bowl, whisk the unbleached flour, pastry flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In a medium bowl, combine the melted butter and brown sugar and stir with a heavy spoon, mashing any lumps of sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs and vanilla, just until well-mixed. Scrape the butter mixture into the flour mixture and stir, mixing until all the flour is incorporated. Stir in the chopped apples, then spread in the baking pan. Sprinkle the butterscotch chips over the batter. Bake for 35–40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the pan comes out with only moist crumbs attached, and the top of the bars are golden brown. Let cool for at least 10 minutes on a rack before cutting. Chill the bars completely to get neat squares when cutting. September 2017
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RECIPE EXCHANGE Submit your favorite recipes to be featured on our reader recipe page. Email to tina@weca.coop There was an error in the Rhubarb Cake recipe in our August magazine. A corrected version can be found at wecnmagazine.com. We regret the error.
Sauerkraut Cake
Cynthia Charapata, Little Suamico
2/3 cup butter 1-1/2 cups sugar 3 eggs, beaten 1 tsp vanilla 2-1/4 cups flour 1/2 cup cocoa 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 1 cup water 2/3 cup sauerkraut, rinsed, drained, and chopped Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Blend together butter and sugar. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Sift all dry ingredients together. Add alternately with water. Stir in the sauerkraut. Pour into greased 9x13-inch pan. Bake until center springs back when touched, roughly 30 minutes.
Fruit Cake
Mrs. Paul Sadler, Curtiss
2 qts rhubarb 1 cup sugar 3 oz strawberry jello packet 1 box yellow cake mix 1 cup water Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9x13-inch pan with rhubarb and sugar. Sprinkle jello and cake mix on top. Pour water over everything. Bake for 50–60 minutes.
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Hot Fudge Pudding Cake
2 cups flour 1-1/2 cups sugar 4 tsp cocoa 4 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1 cup milk 2 tsp vanilla 4 Tbsp butter 2 cups brown sugar 1/3 cup cocoa 2-2/3 cups hot water
1-1/2 cups flour 1-1/3 cups sugar 1 cup cocoa, divided 1 Tbsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1 cup milk 6 Tbsp vegetable oil 1-1/3 cups brown sugar 1/2 cup chocolate chips 2 tsp vanilla 2-1/2 cups hot water
Mix together flour, sugar, 4 teaspoons cocoa, baking powder, salt, milk, vanilla, and butter. Pour into greased 9x13-inch pan. Sprinkle brown sugar and 1/3 cup cocoa on top. Pour hot water over batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.
Mix flour, sugar, 1/2 cup cocoa, baking powder, and salt. Stir in milk and oil. Pour into a greased 9x13-inch pan. Sprinkle with brown sugar, remaining 1/2 cup cocoa, and chocolate chips. Add vanilla to hot water and pour over cake. Bake at 350 degrees for 30–35 minutes.
Mary Miller, Wautoma
Rhubarb Crunch
Judi Slovinski, Wautoma
Helen Harold, West Salem
1 cup flour 3/4 cup oats 1 cup brown sugar 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 cup butter, melted 4 cups sliced rhubarb 1 cup sugar 2 Tbsp cornstarch 1 cup water 1 tsp vanilla Few drops red food coloring Combine flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter. Mix until crumbly. Press half into a 9-inch square pan. Cover with rhubarb. In a separate bowl combine sugar and cornstarch. Add water and cook until thick. Add vanilla and food coloring. Pour over rhubarb. Top with remaining crumb mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 50–60 minutes.
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his publication has long had an affinity for the apple orchards that line the ridge along Highway 171 just outside of Gays Mills in Southwest Wisconsin. After all, our histories are uniquely entwined. Legend has it that the very seed for the Wisconsin REA News was planted during a meeting under an apple tree in one of these orchards in 1940. Seventy-seven years later, both the orchard and the publication are still very fruitful, although neither resembles its 1940 form. The Rosa Orchard at which the fabled meeting took place is now part of Sunrise Orchard, and the Wisconsin REA News has evolved into the Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News that you’re reading today. You can visit an orchard along the ridge if you want to take in the historical significance of the area’s role in the formation of this magazine. Or, of course, you can visit an orchard if you simply want to take in some apples.
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WISCONSIN FAVORITES And this is the place to go if you want to take home some apples. The village of Gays Mills in Crawford County calls itself the Apple Capital of Wisconsin for good reason. The ridge along Highway 171 is dotted with seven orchards that collectively produce more than 30 varieties of apples. They also produce caramel apples, apple cider, apple donuts, apple pie, apple butter, and countless other apple treats. “Each orchard does something a little different. They’ve all got their specialties,” said Terre Van Haren, retail manager at Hillcrest Orchard and a spokesperson for the Orchard Ridge Business Association, made up of the Gays Mills apple orchards plus a pie eatery, a gift and coffee shop, and a bar and grill, all located along Highway 171. For example, one orchard is organic, one offers a pick-your-own option, and a couple others have an on-site bakery. A
commonality, Van Haren pointed out, is that all the Orchard Ridge businesses are family owned and operated.
Autumn Experience Each fall the Gays Mills orchards attract tour buses from all over the country as well as hordes of devoted apple aficionados from Wisconsin and neighboring states. These visitors come not just for the delicious apples, but for the whole fall experience. They’ll find their fill of apples and apple products here, but they can also stock up on pumpkins, squash, and other fall produce; gourds, Indian corn, and other fall decorating items; and honey, maple syrup, relishes, and other local products. Families can also enjoy other fall attractions offered at the various orchards throughout the season, including pumpkin patches, petting zoos, a corn maze, and even a sunflower maze. If you
visit on the weekend of September 22–24 you can take in the many activities of the annual Gays Mills Apple Fest, when the village celebrates the apple harvest with parades, carnivals, arts and crafts, flea markets, music, dancing, and other festivities. In addition, some orchards offer their own events throughout the season, such as family fun days and harvest celebrations.
100-Plus Years of Apples Apples have been thriving as a commercial product in Gays Mills for more than 100 years, thanks to the ideal conditions in the Kickapoo River Valley. According to a historical marker near the village, in 1905 John Hays and Ben Twining collected apples from eight or 10 farmers around Gays Mills for exhibit at the State Fair. They won first prize and went on to capture first honors in a national
The seven apple orchards located along the ridge on Highway 171 right outside the village of Gays Mills offer the perfect place to pick from more than 30 varieties of fresh apples, enjoy a fall treat like a crisp caramel apple, or simply take in the beautiful views of the Kickapoo River Valley.
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apple show in New York. This experience prompted the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society to urge a project of trial orchards around the state to interest growers in commercial production. One such site was a five-acre orchard planted on the ridge in Gays Mills. This orchard grew so robustly that in 1911 an organization was formed in Gays Mills to promote the apple industry. The same conditions that launched the apple industry here more than a century ago have protected the crop through challenging weather conditions through the years, including the unseasonably warm spring and subsequent late freeze that decimated much of the state’s apple crop five years ago. While other orchards reported vastly reduced yields that year, as the trees had developed early buds that were then killed off by an April freeze, the Gays Mills orchards kept going strong. Crawford County Agriculture Extension Agent Vance Haugen explained that year that the Kickapoo Valley, along with the Wisconsin and Mississippi Valleys, provides a micro climate that eases the temperature extremes in these areas. This unique topography makes for perfect applegrowing conditions that have made Gays Mills a mecca for apple lovers for many years. This year, however, the orchards have had little need for the special protection the valley offers. Van Haren reported
that the Gays Mills orchards have experienced a near-perfect growing season, with lots of rain that has helped bring the apples to a good size. Visit the ridge and see for yourself. You can take in a little bit of history and a whole lot of apples.—Mary Erickson For information about each of the orchards and businesses along the Gays Mills Orchard Ridge, including hours and contact information, visit www.gaysmillsorchardridge.com. To learn more about the Gays Mills Apple Festival, including a schedule of events, visit www.gaysmills.org/applefest.html.
The key players in the formation of the Wisconsin REA News met in a Gays Mills apple orchard in April 1940 to discuss the need for a statewide consumer publication that would address the public-relations challenges the fledgling electric cooperatives were facing from investor-owned power companies. Left to right are Cliff Hooverson, manager of Crawford Electric Cooperative; Bill Thomas, general manager of the state REC association; N.F. Leifer, manager of Vernon Electric Co-op; Clyde Newsomb, manager of Grant Electric Co-op; Harvey Schermerhorn, co-owner and editor of the Grant County Independent, who would go on to serve as the Wisconsin REA News’ first editor; and Charles Rosa, president and co-owner of the Independent and owner of the Rosa Orchard.
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COLLECTOR BUYING WAR SOUVENIRS: German, Japanese, U.S. weapons, medals, helmets, daggers, swords, military items. 715-344-5031. WANTED: PAYING CASH FOR WW-2 GERMAN, JAPANESE FLAGS, DAGGERS, SWORDS, GUNS, ETC. 715-340-1974. WANTED: DEER TAGS, back tags. Trapping, bear, hunting, and fishing licenses. Otter, bobcat, fisher tags. Any old traps. David Schober, W4234 Rock Creek Rd., Loyal, WI 54446. 715-255-9284. TARPS–HEAVY DUTY, 14’ x 48’, hemmed. Expired billboard faces. $50 each or 10’x 30’ – $24 each. Shipping not included. Tarps can also be picked up at Jones Sign, 1711 Scheuring Road, De Pere, WI 54115. 800-536-7446. TORNADO/STORM SHELTERS. 4 person-30 person. TimberLake Homes; corner of Hwys. 13 and 21. Friendship, WI. 608-339-4663. FIREWORKS: Hyland’s Fireworks. Firework shows and sales. All seasons and all reasons. Call 715-325-5020 or find us online at: www.bigboomfireworks.org. GOT WOOD! NEW PORTABLE SAWMILLS. We sell Forestry Equipment for the hobbyist to the professional. Band Sawmills, Firewood Processors, Skidding Winches & more. A-F County Market an authorized Hudson Forest Equipment Dealer. Adams, WI 53910. Phone Joe or Rich 608-339-6703. SEPTIC PROBLEMS: Do you have standing water on your drain field? Have you been told you need a new expensive septic system? I have an alternative that works, also comes with a warranty (no digging). Call toll free 855-7976072 or email mmtagm@yahoo.com. LAKE OR POND? Aeration is your 1st step toward improved water quality. 1hp floating fountain aerator with lite just $698.95. Air diffusion bubbler systems: $289-$399 ultra hi-efficiency waterfall pumps up to 11,000gph, just 3.6 amps, solar powered aerators too. 608-254-2735 or www.fishpondaerator.com. AMSOIL SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS OUTPERFORM CONVENTIONAL OILS. New preferred customer plan saves 25%. Visit www.wanikassociates. shopamsoil.com or call 715-398-0488 for details. WANTED: DAN WESSON REVOLVERS. 920-410-6590.
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NEVER CLEAN YOUR GUTTERS AGAIN. Install Shur Flo gutter covers. 20 year guarantee. No clog too reasonable. Jims Gutter Covers, 608-669-7400 or 920-291-5458.
REAL ESTATE VACATION RENTAL. Five or ten bedroom lodge or cabin. Hatfield, WI. Enjoy Lake Arbutus and Lake Wazee. ATV and snowmobile trails. Bruce Mound ski hill. www.thunderbirdvillage.net. FOR SALE: 3 bedroom cabin on Upper Clam Lake, Ashland County. Fireplace, beds, furniture, appliances. Boat, shed, dock. $89,000. Call Tim 715-423-6550 or 715-572-2632. WOODED 72 ACRES SW OF COLOMA. Some MFL & mature pines. Hiking trails. Big bucks. Quiet. $2600 an acre. 920-210-0664. VACATION RENTAL ON SCENIC FLAMBEAU RIVER. Beautiful fully furnished 3+ bedrooms, one bath that sleeps 8+. Cottage sits within 30 level feet off the shoreline. 4 Kayaks and 2 Canoes supplied for renters to use. Rates depend upon number of guests and number of nights booked. Email: paultroy@centurytel.net or Call: 715-288-6802. HUNTING/FISHING MARQUETTE COUNTY, 8 miles from Montello. 45+ acres total with 21 acre secluded woods. High deer population and turkeys. Includes 560 feet of frontage on 2300 acre Buffalo Lake. Amazing fishing and duck hunting. Fronts on county road. Great building sites. All high and dry. $189,000. 321-626-8394. REMOTE FORESTED 40 OR 80 ACRES IN BAYFIELD COUNTY. 12 miles west of City of Bayfield. Two sides adjacent to Bayfield Co forest laced with ATV and hunting trails. Bordered by new fencing on 1 1/2 sides, adjacent to private lands. Brush cut in 2010 through this acreage. Divided in 40’s, $650/acre. Entire 80 at $600/acre. Easements possible from adjacent landowners and Bayfield Co. Priced below similar properties by 60%. Hunting for white-tailed deer, bears, turkey and grouse. Near Cornucopia, WI and Lake Superior, 1000’ from Sand River. Please call 715-373-5252. 13.3 WOODED ACRES, 10 minutes from downtown Wisconsin Dells. New well and electric. Beautiful campsites, 1/2 mile of ATV trails, deer stands, flower garden, and stonework. Older mobile home. $125,000. 262-496-6510.
2 ACRES ISLAND PROPERTY. Property with 800’ frontage and a vintage 2 bedroom cabin. Garage and cabin are on the mainland 1/4 mile across the lake. $98,500. Call or text 715-661-4842. FOR SALE: Mobile Home on 1 acre with living room addition. Fully furnished. Located on Reshel Road in the Town of City Point, Jackson County. 608-577-6140.
PLANTS & SHRUBS HARDWOOD AND CONIFER SEEDLINGS AND TRANSPLANTS. Thousands available; oak, maple, mulberry, cherry, highbred poplar, dogwoods, hazelnut, lilac, Balsam Fir, Fraser Fir, spruce, pine, cedar, fruit trees, jumbo transplants, large bare-root shade trees. Hundreds of 3-5 foot conifers of all species at wholesale prices. We plant and transplant large trees with tree spade, too. Check us out on the web at www. paintcreeknursery.com, Facebook and YouTube also. Paint Creek Nursery, Cadott, WI 715-723-2072. SPRUCE TREES 7-9 foot balled & burlaped. I have beautiful, thick Wisconsin grown trees perfect for cover or screening. We are open spring–fall but please order early to reserve your trees as its common for us to sell out for both spring and fall planting seasons. We dig and hold all orders for you and try not to held many extra trees. Call us at 608-981-2169 or go to www. peterstellasfarm.com.
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WISCONSIN EVENTS 1 Master Gardeners Brat-Burger Fry––Adams. A-F Country Market, 9 a.m.–3 p.m.
9 Brat Fry––Tomah. VFW 11 a.m. until gone. Brats, chips and sides for $5.
17 Polish Dinner––Hawkins. St. Mary of Czestochowa, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.
1–3 Old Time Farm Fest––Fountain City. Farm Fest Grounds, Fri. 4–9 p.m.; Sat. 7 a.m.–10:30 p.m.; Sun. 7 a.m.–3:30 p.m. $8 per person, 12 and under free.
9 Firefighter’s Ball––Colfax. Fairgrounds. Parade, penny hunt, pedal pull, auction, bean bag tournament, raffles, live music.
23 Library Book Sale––Gays Mills. Old Community Building, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. 608-735-4331.
2 Conquer Suring Hill 5k/10k Walk/Run–– Suring. School back parking lot, 7 a.m. Register online.
9 Dairy Fest––Lena. St. Anne Parish. Parade, run/walk, inflatables, face painting, petting zoo, tractor & truck pulls, food, music.
23 Fall Festival––Hayward. Main Street. Arts & crafts, food, brew & wine garden, live music, sidewalk sales, kids’ games, trail run. 715-634-8662.
2 Car, Truck, and Tractor Show––Pardeeville. Chandler Park, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Music and food. 608-429-3703.
9 Tractor Pulls––Clifton. Sportsman’s Club, noon. Food, refreshments, flea market. 608-343-4411.
23 Harvest Supper––Brule. Presbyterian Church, 4–7 p.m.
2 Craft Show––Nekoosa. Lake Arrowhead, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Food and over 100 displays of quality handmade crafts.
10 Heritage Sunday––Beloit. Beckman Mill Park, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Historic demonstrations, food, music, soldiers from different eras, mill tours. 608-751-1551.
2 Jonesfest––Kennan. 2–11 p.m. Music, camping, food, raffle. Free. 715-474-6658. 2–4 Softball Tournament––Millston. Ball field, all day event. 715-284-4093. 3 Corn Roast––Big Falls. Village Park. Parade at noon, live country/rock bands from 1 p.m.–midnight, games, food. 3 Pancake and French Toast Breakfast––Phillips. St. Therese Church, 8–11:30 a.m. 3 Truck and Tractor Pulls––Jump River. Community Park, 12–7 p.m. Horseshoe tournament, grilled chicken, hamburgers.
10 Fall Festival––Bloomer. St. John the Baptist, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Auctions, games, baked goods, crafts. 715-568-3778. 10 Steak & Broasted Chicken Dinner––Tigerton. St. John Church, 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. 11 Patriot Day Heroes 5k Fun Run––Village of Camp Douglas. Nelson Park, 2:30–5:30 p.m. $15 fee (includes a T-shirt). 16 Cajun Train––North Freedom. MidContinent Railway, 1 p.m. 608-522-4261.
23, 24 Fall Festival––Altoona. St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Sat. 4–9 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Mass, dinner, beer tent, silent auction, raffles, children’s games. 24 Tractor Drive––Brodhead. Spring Grove Township Hall, 10 a.m. Tractors $20; wagon $15; under 10 $5. 608-604-4648. 27 Harvest Dinner––Jim Falls. United Methodist Church, 4:30–7 p.m. 29, 30 Gitche Gumee Fiber Artists Show and Sale––Bayfield. Bethesda Lutheran Church, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Quilts, weaving, wearable art, fiber-crafted items. 30 Honor the Fallen Motorcycle Ride and Fundraiser––Ladysmith. Veteran’s Memorial Assn., 11 a.m.–8 p.m. 715-415-4580.
3 Poultry Shoot––Willard. Rock Dam Rod and Gun Clubhouse, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
16 EAA Fly-In/Car & Tractor Show––Oconto. Airport, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Warbirds & general aviation aircraft, army encampment, more. Adults $5; under 13 free.
7–9 Rummage Sale––Mauston. Stewart’s Chapel, Thur. & Fri. 8 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m.–noon.
16 Fish Flippin’ 5k Trail Run/Walk––Iron River. National Fish Hatchery, 9 a.m.–noon. 715-372-8510.
8 Donut Fry––Jim Falls. United Methodist Church, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. $4 per dozen. Order in advance: 715-382-4549.
16 Heart and Soul Fun Run––Boyd. Lotz Park, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Zoo, games, lunch.
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16, 17 Quilt Show––Mauston. Boorman House, 12–3 p.m.
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8–10 Can-Yak Fishing Tournament––Mercer. Canoe/kayak tournament. Cookout, awards, raffle. 715-476-2389. 8–10 Harvest Fest––Eleva. Cleghorn School Park. Softball and bean bag tournament, bingo, music, run/walk, parade, food, kids’ activities, fireworks, more. 8–10 Sheep and Wool Festival––Jefferson. Fair Park, 8 a.m.–6 p.m. Fiber art classes, sheep and fleece shows, shearing demos, newborn lambs, lamb dinner.
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16, 17 Northern Aged Iron Tractor & Threshing Show––Highbridge. Hill Farm, 8 a.m.–6 p.m. $3 for 2-day admission. 12 & under free. 715-746-2710. 16, 17 Driftless Area Art Festival––Soldiers Grove. Beauford T. Anderson Park, 10 a.m. 17 Fall Festival––Hazel Green. St. Francis de Sales Parish, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Food, games, auction, and raffles.
30 Art Tour––Augusta. Falling Leaves Art Studio Tour, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
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