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April 2018 Vol. 53 • No. 4

Editor Peter A. Fitzgerald

SEnior Editor/WritErKatherine Hackleman

ASSociAtE EditorMichael T. Crawford

lAyout & dESignW. Douglas Shirk

production coordinAtorMichelle M. Smith

contributing columniStSJanette Hess

Patrick Keegan George Weigel

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4 KEEping currEnt News from across

the Commonwealth

6 SmArt circuitS Aim for quality when managing a

renovation contractor

8 coVEr: SupErStAr bArnS Barn star tour reveals rural history

14 tEcH trEndS Robots and sensors

16 timE linES Your newsmagazine

through the years

16a coopErAtiVE connEction

Information and advice from your local electric cooperative

18 poWEr plAntS About those plant sizes…

20 country KitcHEn Out of hibernation

22 EnErgy mAttErS A (careful) day in the life of a

lineworker

24 rurAl rEflEctionS Looking forward to flowers

26 fEAturE: fArmEr forcE Woman’s Land Army of America

marks 100th anniversary

28 clASSifiEdS

30 puncH linES Don’t cheat me out of my fun

CoNtENtS

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pattern used by barn builder Josiah Werner is located at 1416 Pine Hill Road,

Garrett, Pa. It is on one of 19 barns featured on a barn star

tour in Somerset County. Photo by Kathy Hackleman

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News from across the Commonwealth

Another dmA established to counter spread of cWd

The Pennsylvania Game Commission has established Disease Management Area (DMA) 4 after a deer tested posi-tive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) at a captive deer farm in Lancaster County. The area covers 346 square miles in parts of Lancaster, Lebanon and Berks counties, including State Game Lands 46, 220, 225, 274 and 425.

Special rules apply within DMAs in an effort to slow the spread of the dis-ease, which is always fatal to deer, elk and other cervids. It was first detected in Pennsylvania in 2012 at a captive deer farm in Adams County.

DMA 1, covering portions of Adams and York counties, was eliminated due

to no finding of CWD in wild deer after several years. DMA 2 covers 2,845 square miles in parts of Ad-ams, Bedford, Blair,

Cambria, Clearfield, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon and Somerset counties. DMA 3 includes 350 square miles in parts of Clearfield, Indiana and Jefferson counties.

Information on CWD and Pennsyl-vania’s DMAs, including maps of all DMAs, is available at pgc.pa.gov.

tree-planting program continues at flight 93 national memorial

More than 400 volunteers will gath-er at the Flight 93 National Memorial on April 27 and 28 for the annual “Plant a Tree at Flight 93” event. The goal of the massive reforestation effort is to plant 150,000 new trees at the memorial in Somerset County. In the past six years, volunteers have planted

over 100,000 trees.The unique volunteer initiative is

a joint venture between the Nation-al Park Service, the National Park Foundation and the Friends of Flight 93 National Memorial. The trees are planted as a living memorial to the 40 passengers and crew members of Flight 93 who died when the plane crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, during a coordinated terrorist attack on the United States.

Walk-in volunteers are not accepted; interested persons must pre-register

online at flight93friends.org. Registra-tion is open and available on a first-come, first-served basis and will close when all volunteer spots are filled. Vol-unteers must be at least 14 years old to participate in this rain-or-shine event.

governor seeks more funding for lyme disease battle in pennsylvania

Governor Tom Wolf included $2.5 million in his proposed 2018-19 state budget for a coordinated attack on Lyme disease. Pennsylvania leads the nation in cases of the tick-borne disease.

If approved by the legislature, the funding would allow the Pennsylvania Department of Health to hire staff to

implement recom-mendations related to prevention, edu-cation, surveillance and awareness.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports there were 8,988 confirmed cases of Lyme disease in Pennsylvania in 2016, with another 2,455 probable cases (2017 statis-tics are not yet available). The next highest state tally was in New Jersey with 3,332 confirmed cases and 1,018 probable cases.

State works on pothole repairs on roadways

Pennsylvania Department of Trans-portation (PennDOT) crews are work-ing to address the growing number of potholes on state-maintained roads. Officials said the winter’s dramatic temperature swings have caused more potholes than usual.

Through the end of February, PennDOT crews had used more than 9,627 tons of asphalt repairing pot-holes statewide, equal to the weight of roughly 627 PennDOT dump trucks. In comparison, by the same time in 2017, PennDOT had used 6,133 tons of asphalt, with 3,607 tons being used in the same time period in 2016.

PennDOT crews are responsible for maintaining nearly 40,000 miles of state-owned roadways. Repairs are made first to areas with higher traffic levels. During the winter and early spring, potholes are repaired using a temporary mixture, with permanent repairs com-pleted when the weather is warmer.

Report potholes and other high-way-maintenance concerns on state roads at customercare.penndot.gov or by calling 800-349-7623. l

LIVING MEMoRIAL: Volunteers are working to plant 150,000 trees in memory of the victims of the Flight 93 crash.

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Dear Pat: We hired a contractor to give us an energy-efficient renovation. How do we man-

age the job to make sure the project turns out right? — Bridget and Neil

Dear Bridget and Neil: First, you should decide who will be the main con-tact with your contractor. Clear commu-nication is critical because a renovation that includes energy efficiency improve-ments comes with extra challenges.

Before the work starts, have a dis-cussion with your contractor about quality. You want the contractor to know you’ll be carefully overseeing the work and that there may be oth-ers involved in this oversight, such as building inspectors, your electric cooperative or an independent energy auditor. You can discuss the standards of a professional, high-quality job. And you can agree on the points at which the contractor will pause so you or someone you designate can review the work. At a minimum, an inspection should take place before you make an interim payment.

Here are a few review points:k The building envelope should be

properly sealed before insulation is installed because air leaks increase energy use and reduce comfort.

k Replacement windows should be properly flashed and sealed before siding and trim are installed to pre-vent moisture problems and leaks.

k Some insulation measures can be inspected before they are sealed up behind walls or ceilings.Almost all efficiency measures

require some kind of final inspection. For example, infrared thermometers can show voids in blown insulation, and fiberglass batts can be visually

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inspected to ensure there are no air gaps and the batts are not compressed.

HVAC measures require special attention. Nearly half of all HVAC sys-tems are not installed correctly, which often causes uneven temperature dis-tribution throughout the home, along with higher energy bills. Energy Star® has a special program to ensure quality HVAC installation. Forced-air systems typically have poorly balanced supply and return air delivery that can often be improved. Air flow can be measured at each register, and a duct blaster test can identify and quantify duct leakage.

When you review the work, it may be helpful to take photos or to bring in an energy auditor. Be sure to have these inspections outlined in the con-tract and discussed beforehand.

It will be tempting to add “just one more thing” along the way, and the contractor may agree a change is simple and possible within the time frames. Contractors and customers often mis-communicate about change orders and end up disagreeing about additional costs when the project is completed.

Before you make any changes, be sure to get a written cost quote.

Maintain good records as the project progresses. They could be helpful for building inspectors or to qualify for rebates or tax credits.

When the renovation is complete, it may be tempting to sign the check, shake hands and breathe a sigh of relief that it’s all over. Depending on the size and complexity of the project, it may be worth the extra step of having a final audit by a licensed energy auditor.

My neighbors were saved from a home renovation disaster when an energy audit discovered the energy efficiency contractor had failed to pro-duce the promised efficiencies. The contractor had to perform thousands of dollars’ worth of improvements to fulfill the contract before my neighbors made the final payment.

This column was co-written by Pat Keegan and Brad Thiessen of Collabora-tive Efficiency. For more information on managing a home renovation contractor, please visit: www.collaborativeefficiency.com/energytips.

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Superstar barnsBy Kathy Hackleman Senior Editor/Writer

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StAR AND SHUttERS: this white barn with blue shutters and a medallion star also has cupolas with shutterwork. It is located at 542 Marts Road, Friedens, Pa.

Fifteen years ago, Somerset resi-dent Fred Will decided he would devote a few hours to uncov-

ering the story behind the decorative barn stars so prevalent in rural Somer-set and Bedford counties. At that time, Will was a member of his local histor-ical society board, and the Somerset Historical Center had recently obtained a large barn star for its collection of local memorabilia. That star is now the first stop on a 19-stop barn star driving tour sponsored by the Somerset Coun-ty Chamber of Commerce.

and I’m still looking for information.”What he has discovered is just a

small part of what he now believes may already be lost to the past.

“There is some oral history of conversations passed down through families, but I have spent years looking for written documentation, and I just haven’t been able to find it,” he adds.

Although the decorative barn art is not always a traditional five-point star, it most often is in the shape of a star or has the shape of a star within the design. The barn stars of Somerset and Bedford counties are always cut out and applied, as opposed to the more common Pennsylvania Dutch “hex signs,” which are painted decorations

“Back when the center got the first barn star, no one really knew much about the history of the barn stars, so I took it upon myself to research this,” Will reports. “I thought it would take a month or so. That was 15 years ago,

Barn star tour reveals rural history

found on barns in central and eastern Pennsylvania.

“From the stories I have heard, it seems the barn stars started appearing in Bedford County and progressed through Somerset County, with a few in Washington County,” Will says. “You can almost define the county lines by where the barn stars are.”

From his research, Will believes the first barn stars were installed in the area in the 1870s and continued to be added to area barns through the early 1900s. Some of the ones he has found show similarities, although even the similar ones have different details. The

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stars range in size from about 8 feet in diameter to the largest he has researched — the nearly 15-foot star that first piqued his interest at the museum.

He suspects — but has no confir-mation — that the barn stars (as well as decorative shutters that sometimes appear with the stars) are the intri-cate work of a craftsman or two who created the designs and sold them to the barn owners to be installed as the barns were constructed.

“The stars serve no purpose other than decoration,” he says. “As for the shutters, some are part of a louvered ventilation system, but there is a lot that are simply for decoration only.”

family historyWhen Somerset Rural Electric

Cooperative member Janet Schrock Scott looks toward her barn, she sees the same star she remembers from her childhood. Although she and her hus-band, Glenn, now 90, live on the farm that was Glenn’s childhood home, she was, as she calls herself, “the girl next door.”

She sees more than an old barn decorated with a star — she sees her family’s history. Her grandfather, Homer Schrock, and her husband’s father, Ezra Scott, built the barn that

still stands as a testament to the con-struction methods used a century ago. Today, the barn is used to store hay and house dairy cattle. The barn star still watches over it all.

The Scott barn at 1717 Causeway Drive, Friedens, is one of the barns featured on the Somerset County tour of barn stars and decorations.

While many of the barn stars on the tour are original, some are replicas of the originals.

That’s the case for Dale Airsman, who like the Scotts, lives in his childhood home on Airesman Road, Boswell, and is a member of Somerset Rural Electric Cooperative. According to his family’s history, Airsman’s grand-

father was 9 years old when the barn was built in 1899.

“I don’t know, but I suspect my great-grandfather’s brother supervised the construction of the barn,” Airsman says. “It is my understanding that he built barns.”

As a child, Airsman played in the barn and later worked in it, feeding and milking the family’s dairy cattle, and hauling manure out of it. Today, the barn is used to store hay and house the Airsmans’ three horses.

preservation effortsWhile he works to maintain the old

barn, Airsman notes it takes both a lot of time and “deep pockets” to keep

StILL IN tHE FAMILY: this white barn at 1717 Causeway Drive, Friedens, Pa., built by Ezra Scott and Homer Schrock, is now owned by Glenn and Janet Shrock Scott (Ezra’s son and Homer’s grand-daughter).

LOOK FOR THE STARS: This medallion fea-tures dozens of tiny cutout stars within its design. It is located at 566 Airesman Road, Boswell, Pa.

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residents in the area. “He had the foresight to buy the

stars, take them off and sell them as antiques,” he says. “He would make a brand new copy of the barn star and install the reproduction. The ones that went back up are supposedly the original pattern, but a lot of them were taken off, sold and never replaced.”

Through the decades, many barn stars have been lost to the scrap heap as the farms change hands and new owners, especially if they are not family members, don’t have the same sentimental attachment to the aging barns and their embellishments, Will says.

“We are losing some barns com-

a structure like that in tip-top shape. One of the parts of his barn that dete-riorated over the years was the original barn star. A few years ago, when an antique dealer sought him out, Airs-man agreed the dealer could have the original barn star if he provided a new reproduction and installed it.

“If I hadn’t done that, the star would have fallen apart and I would have had a gaping hole in the side of the barn,” he says. “(The dealer) rented a bucket truck and took the old star down, and contracted with a cabinet maker in Maryland who made the replica out of cedar so it wouldn’t rot.”

Will says the same antique dealer made similar deals with a number of

pletely, and the decorations with them, because of the cost of maintenance and upkeep,” Will says. “But many of the individuals are trying to maintain them and keep them in good order.”

barn tourThe chamber’s barn star and deco-

ration driving tour is designed to be a random sampling around Somerset County of barns that are easily accessi-ble and can be seen from a major road-way, but tourists are reminded that the barns and surrounding grounds are private property.

As for the barn star that originally sent Will on his journey of discov-ery, the large star is displayed at the historical center on a wall painted to look like the wall of the barn it first decorated.

Mark Ware, the center’s executive director, reports it came from a barn at the Jacob Glessner farm in Somerset County’s Stonycreek Township. The barn is believed to have been built in 1889 or 1890 by carpenter Edward Landis and then remodeled in 1912 by Michael Snyder and John Calvin Scott, at which time the barn star was added.

“When the barn was torn down a number of years ago, an antique dealer bought the star, which the historical society acquired a number of years later,” he says. “We also have a copy of an original barn star (the Schrock/Scott barn star) in our archives that has a similar, but not identical, pattern to ours.”

Although the Schrock/Scott pat-tern is not available to the public, the historical society’s gift shop does sell a number of tiny barn star replicas cast into pewter ornaments.

For more information about the barn star driving tour, contact the Somerset County Chamber of Com-merce or go to somersetcountycham-ber.com (click on “Visit,” then “Area Attractions,” then “Barn Stars Driving Tour”).

Anyone who has historical infor-mation about the area’s barn stars or shutters is asked to contact Will at [email protected]. l

LotS oF DECoRAtIoNS: this barn on Barron Church Road, Rockwood, Pa., features a ventilated medallion star and shutters, along with applied bracketwork and columns.

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Lineworker Appreciation DayApril 9, 2018

Remember to #ThankALineworker

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Chad CarrickPresident & CEO

As April arrives, it brings with it the showers that produce spring flowers. It also heralds the beginning of a poten-tially stormy season that can inher-ently include power outages. While REA Energy Cooperative, Inc. strives to provide reliable electricity to our members, there are times when Mother Nature has other plans. Most of us can ride out a storm from the comfort and convenience of our homes. However, there is a group of professionals that springs into action when the weather takes a turn for the worst — co-op lineworkers.

One of the most dangerous jobs

Braving stormy weather and other challenging conditions, lineworkers often must climb 40 or more feet in the air, carrying heavy equipment to restore power. Listed as one of the 10 most dangerous jobs in the U.S., line-workers must perform detailed tasks next to high-voltage power lines. To help keep them safe, lineworkers wear specialized protective clothing and equipment at all times when on the job. This includes special fire-resistant clothing that will limit potential inju-ries from burns and sparks. Insulated and rubber gloves are worn in tandem to protect them from electrical shock. While the gear performs a critical func-tion, it also adds additional weight and bulk, making the job more complex.

In addition to the highly visible tasks

lineworkers perform, their job today goes far beyond climbing to the top of a pole to repair a wire. They are also information experts who can pinpoint an outage from miles away and restore power remotely. Line crews use mobile workforce technology to map outages, take pictures of the work they have done and troubleshoot problems. In our community, 25 lineworkers are responsible for keeping 2,657 miles of lines across seven counties working in order to bring power to your home and our local community 24/7, regardless of the weather, holidays, or personal considerations.

While some of the tools that line-workers use have changed over the years, namely the use of technology, the dedication to the job has not. Being a lineworker is not a glamorous pro-fession. At its essence, it is inherently dangerous, requiring them to work near high-voltage lines in the worst of conditions, at any time of the day or night. During blizzards, high winds or storms, crews often work around the clock to restore power. While April is known for spring showers, there is also a day set aside to thank a lineworker.

Lineworker Appreciation Day is April 9. So during April, if you see a lineworker, please pause to say “Thank you” to the power behind your power. Let them know you appreciate the hard work they do to keep the lights on, regardless of the conditions. l

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The power behind your powerBy Chad Carrick, MBA, CFPC President and CEO

From the President & CEO

in 1937, REA Energy Cooperative began providing electricity to rural areas in southwestern Pennsylvania. The word rural can be defined as “a characteristic of the country, country life, or country people,” and this truly defines our members.

Throughout our service area, we not only provide electricity to residential members, but also local businesses. One of the businesses we provide electricity to is a bait and tackle shop in Portage, Pa.: Yanov’s Bait and Tackle. In addition to being a cooperative member, they also participate in the Co-op Con-nections program, offering an addition-al 5 percent off their already low prices. Owner Joseph Yanov recently took time out of his busy schedule to show us around his shop as he gears up for the upcoming season. Joseph even gave some tips to one of

the linemen who maintain his util-ity lines on a few local fishing holes in the area.

Yanov’s Bait and Tackle initially opened in 2002 as a small live bait shop during the busy fishing seasons. Over the years, Joseph has expanded his shop to include everything from rods and reels to coolers full of live bait. The largest accomplishment of

this growing business is the year-round, honor-system, live bait porch for his cus-tomers’ convenience.

Like most local business-es, a satisfied customer’s word of mouth is the best advertisement.

Joseph says, “I’ve been known to lend out a bucket to those who forget, and it always gets returned; that’s the camaraderie of the business.”

With the statewide open-ing day of trout just around the corner (April 14), many

REA Energy members will be loading their gear and heading out to spend

some time along numerous creeks and streams. With combination of the first day of trout and the Wilmore Dam being located mere minutes from the shop, Joseph can expect to be spending long hours work-ing very soon.

This bait and tackle shop supports the country life our rural people enjoy so much, and Yanov’s Bait and Tackle does its part and more when it comes to keeping this rural lifestyle afloat. Joseph donates bait

and tackle to the local mentored youth trout days and consistently supports the Traditional Anglers of Pennsylvania (TAP).

REA was created to provide rural people with electricity and what they do with it afterwards is in their hands. Joseph Yanov is one example of many who took advantage of this opportuni-ty, and he certainly has his hands full. Whether you already enjoy fishing or would like to begin a new hobby, we encourage members to visit Yanov’s Bait and Tackle and share a passion the country people cherish. l

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WELCOME: The shop is located at 239 Munster Road, Portage, PA 15946; phone: 814-736-8431.

FOR CUSTOMERS: The shop has a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week, year-round, honor-system porch.

INSPECTION: Owner Joseph Yanov explains to REA Energy Cooperative, Inc. lineman Nick Cronauer how he inspects every live bait package before it leaves his shop with a fisherman.

GOOD DEAL: Visit Yanov’s Bait and Tackle and receive an ad-ditional 5 percent off the already low prices through the Co-op Connections program.

Hook, line & sinker

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By Marissa Cronauer

Marketing Specialist

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Lineworker Appreciation DayApril 9, 2018

Remember to #ThankALineworker

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Lives on the line America’s electric cooperatives have designated the second Monday of April as National

Lineworker Appreciation Day.We depend on our entire staff to keep REA Energy running smoothly, but on April 9, 2018,

we honor our lineworkers who often find themselves in dangerous and challenging situations, so our lives may be a little bit brighter and safer every day. These brave men repair damaged lines and maintain critical infrastructure for our communities. Without their hard work and commitment to the job, our co-op would not thrive. No matter the time — day or night, week-day or weekend — if the lights go out, so do they.

Perhaps you have seen them raising their bucket trucks in howling winds and torrential rains, or in freezing, icy conditions. They work around the clock near high-voltage power lines until electricity is restored to every member in our co-op community.

In addition to aiding members in our local service territory, lineworkers are always willing and eager to volunteer when a neighboring community, county or state is in need after a ma-jor outage occurs. Our lineworkers are brave, committed and critical to our success.

We hope you will join us in thanking the many lineworkers — both locally and around the world — that light our lives. Remember, your power works because they do!

Use #ThankALineworker on social media to show your support.

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Sam EckenrodDistrict 1

Wayne FarabaughVice Chairman

District 8

John R. LearnDistrict 6

Anthony EncisoDistrict 7

J.R. “Rick” ShopeDistrict 2

Your Board of Directors

Right-of-way management and facility construction news

REA Energy contractors will be completing tree-trim-ming work in the following areas in April:k Contractor crews from Asplundh Tree Expert Co.

will be trimming the rights-of-way of the Kenwood Substation area, in addition to emergency mainte-nance areas. Crews from Penn Line Service will be trimming the right-of-way of the Uniontown Substa-tion area.

Notification of work will be made to members in the areas affected. Contractors will perform all right-of-way work per REA Energy specifications. All contractor employees will carry employee identification cards and their vehicles will display their company name.

If you have any questions, call 724-349-4800, or view the specifications at: www.reaenergy.com.

REMINDER TO STAY BACK!REA Energy wants to stress to NEVER touch

any downed lines; there is no way to tell if there is power running through it. Please contact 911 and the local utility. Only trained personnel should complete the task of moving any downed line.

Santana Olp, Member Services Representative I

New face at REA EnergySantana Olp started in the position of member services

representative I on Feb. 26, 2018. Some of her duties will include: welcoming and assisting customers, new mem-ber sign up, answering the cooperative’s main line, and processing service orders and payments.

Santana has an associate degree in specialized busi-ness and accounting. She is currently working on com-pleting two bachelor’s degrees — criminal justice human services and accounting.

In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, volunteer work, kayaking, airbrushing, shopping and travelling.

2018 area meetingsIn 2018, there will be two Area Meetings held in May.

This year, the meetings will be held for Directorate Dis-tricts 7, 8 and 9.

Members in Districts 7 and 9 will be invited to at-tend a meeting at the Kovalchick Convention Complex. Members in District 8 will be invited to a meeting at the Carrolltown Fire Hall.

District 7 includes the following township in Indiana County: White.

District 8 includes the following townships in Cambria County: Barr, Blacklick, Clearfield, Dean, East Carroll, West Carroll and White. District 8 also includes Beccaria Township in Clearfield County.

District 9 includes the following townships in Arm-strong County: Kiskiminetas, Plumcreek and South Bend. District 9 includes these townships in Indiana County: Armstrong, Conemaugh, and Burrell, and in Westmore-land County: Derry and Loyalhanna.

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In the past, we have discussed util-ity technologies for monitoring, data collection and remote-control

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There are many different aspects of utility automation, including data and software integration, disconnects and reconnects, and asset control. Auto-mation technologies such as reclosers have been available to some utilities for decades, but more digital technologies are beginning to enter the market. Let’s focus primarily on one part of asset con-trol –– smart feeder switching (SFS).

benefits of automation, SfSThere are two main benefits of SFS

for electric utilities: 1. Automatic service restoration to

non-faulted sections after a permanent fault.

2. Dynamic reconfiguration of the distribution network to prevent over-loading, minimize outage risks and achieve load balancing.

What this means: SFS helps bring back power faster after an outage and makes sure it’s done in a safe way.

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INNoVAtIoN: U.S. electric cooperatives are exploring a number of innovative technologies, including special sensors on power lines that are being developed for niche applications, including fault loca-tion, power theft detection and asset management.

who can be served by two or more sources. For example, assume a univer-sity is connected by two power lines (feeders) from a substation, and a tree falls on the primary feeder. The system will sense a fault has occurred and stop sending power through the damaged feeder. With automation, the system will attempt to route power through the backup feeder instead. This can happen so fast that the university may not even notice that a fault occurred.

recloser automationThere are many causes of faults in

electrical systems, including lightning, ice, trees, animals and equipment failure. Some faults are “permanent” (a pole or line has been damaged and requires physical repair); others are “temporary” (an animal touches two phases and falls off). A temporary fault typically does not damage equipment but will cause a feeder to momentarily lose power. This is where the automatic recloser comes in. After the circuit is opened (halt-ing the flow of power), the automatic

recloser will attempt to restore power. If the fault has cleared, service will be restored with the member noticing only a brief pause in service. If the fault is permanent, the recloser will re-open, shutting down power on that feeder.

pulse closingPulse closing complements reclosers

by allowing the system to send out a limited pulse of energy to check for unresolved faults. The purpose is to minimize stress on electrical equip-ment. Without this technology, every time a recloser closes onto a faulted circuit, a surge of electricity can flow onto the circuit, resulting in equipment damage over time.

Together, these technologies help support the mission of electric coop-eratives to provide safe, reliable and affordable electricity to members. l

Thomas Kirk is an associate analyst of distributed energy resources for the Arlington, Va.-based National Rural Elec-tric Cooperative Association’s Business & Technology Strategies (BTS) division.

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In an effort to shorten emergency response times, Clarion County’s 911 control center begins assigning street addresses to all rural homes.

Local libraries offer a starting point for persons interested in researching their family’s history.

Tourism is a significant source of employment in Pennsylvania as the Commonwealth offers a rich variety of historical sites, athletic events and entertainment.

President Lyndon Johnson addresses the 26th annual meeting of the Na-tional Rural Electric Cooperative Associ-ation in Dallas.

As young men, former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn and actors Walter Matthau, Danny Thomas, Raymond Burr and Robert Mitchum lived lives that were very

similar to the lives of millions of men of their era. They were all participants in the Civilian Conservation Corps, better known as the CCC, which kicked off its nationwide effort to combat unemployment in the early 1930s.

The CCC was one of a group of “alphabet programs” initiated during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. They included the NRA (National Recovery Administration), the WPA (Works Progress Administration), the REA (Rural Electrification Admin-istration), the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) and the CCC.

CCC enrollees enlisted for six-month stretches with pay of $1 per day. Enrollment could not exceed two years. Nearly 5,000 camps of 200 enrollees each were set up across the U.S., with the men living in tents or barracks near their project sites.

Approximately 3.5 million men — most between the ages of 17 and 28 — participated in the CCC program, which lasted until June 1942. They were most often assigned to forestry and flood prevention work in rural areas in an effort to enhance the value of the country’s natural resources. The work they per-formed is valued at an estimated $8 billion in 2008 dollars.

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About those plant sizes…By George Weigel

The best gardening question with the worst answer is, “How big is this plant going to get?”

It’s a good question — especially heading into spring plant-buying time — because paying attention to size prevents too-big plants from quickly swallowing too-little spaces in the yard.

Unfortunately, so many factors affect a plant’s size that the only accurate answer is, “It depends.”

Curveball No. 1 is that plants aren’t identical clones. There’s enough genetic variability in nature that it’s not unusual for different plants of the same type to grow a little faster or a little slower or a little taller or a little shorter than one another — even side by side.

Curveball No. 2 is that any plant can grow markedly different when they’re given different conditions.

For example, if you plant your plant in good soil, give it ideal light, and keep it well watered and fed, and I plant the same thing in lousy clay, in deep shade, and never water it, guess who’s plant will grow bigger and faster?

Curveball No. 3 — the real biggie — is how far out are you planning?

Plants have the inconvenient habit not only of growing at different rates but never stopping growth — at least not until deer eat them or they croak for one of a variety of reasons.

That means the answer to the how-big question depends greatly on whether you’re looking five years out or 10 years out or 50 years out.

That’s especially a dilemma for the people responsible for putting numbers on plant signs next to “height” and “width.”

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on sizes five years out and so might list, say, a dwarf lilac at 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide. Other growers might opt to look longer and list the same plant as growing to 6 or even 8 feet tall and 5 or 6 feet wide.

This explains why you’ll often find significant size differences from one source to the next.

Listed sizes at least are helpful for determining plant proportions and shapes. They’ll tell you if plants are upright or low and spreading, and they sometimes mention general growth rates, such as slow, medium, or fast.

Ultimately, though, the best way to plan for how much space to allow in your garden is by considering main-tenance size. In other words, how much space can you allocate for a plant before you have to start regularly size-controlling it?

If you don’t mind regular pruning and can stay on top of the job, then go

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Now that spring officially is here, our appetites are ready to come out of hibernation.

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Combine greens, chicken, strawberries, onions and walnuts in large mixing bowl. Starting with 1/2 cup, add desired amount of dressing. Add pepper to taste. Sprinkle with cheese, if desired, and serve immediately. Makes 8 to 10 servings.

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A (careful) day in the life of a lineworkerBy Paul Wesslund

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“I like hunting down problems,” says Larry. “I know I’m doing something the members can’t do themselves. They depend on us.”

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“There are more people who can’t do this work than can do it,” Selnekovic says. “It takes specific skills and intesti-nal fortitude. They’re a ‘get it done’ type of personality.”

Larry isn’t like a lot of lineworkers; he is a lot of lineworkers. He’s actually not a real person, but a combination of the real people I interviewed for this story about a typical day for a line-worker.

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asked who was familiar with the area they were headed to and analyzed last night’s ball game.

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A safety specialist told the group that he disagreed with the common idea that a lineworker’s job is dangerous, saying, “It’s hazardous and unforgiving, but it doesn’t have to be dangerous if you follow the right procedures. We have the tools, the rules and the knowledge that can keep it from being dangerous.”

By mid-morning, the convoy was ready. Three lineworkers drove three trucks: a service truck, a bucket truck pulling a trailer with a large spool of wire, and a digger truck with a huge auger on top and pulling a trailer car-rying a backhoe. They headed across

SAFETY FIRST: Jacob Strausbaugh, Adams Electric Cooperative, left, and Robert Osterberg, REA Energy Cooperative, work under the direction of a Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association Job Training & Safety instructor during an Advanced Rubber Glove School hosted at REA Energy Cooperative in Indiana, Pa.

the county for the day’s job — moving a ground-mounted transformer 500 feet up a hill, closer to an underground connection to a new barn.

“It’s going to be muddy out there after the rain we’ve had,” says Larry. “When you’re working on underground connections, mud is not your friend.”

We neared the site by late morning. To avoid interrupting the field work, the team stopped for an early lunch. Over burgers, I asked Larry about his training and his typical day.

“There’s nothing routine,” he says. A work plan might get changed

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When the caravan arrived at the work site, the trucks drove up the packed, crushed-rock driveway, avoid-ing the soft ground on either side.

The three lineworkers gathered near

the front of one of the trucks for what a lot of co-ops call a “tailgate meeting” or “job briefing.” They read through forms, noting the address, cross street, job and account number. All three men signed the form.

They broke their huddle and de-ener-gized the lines they would be working on, calling to let the office know the power had been cut. The next step was to use the backhoe to dig around the new connection pipes sticking out of the ground, making room for a ground-mounted transformer.

When the backhoe finished digging around the new transformer location, it drove down to the old transformer site. The crew unhooked the electric connections, then chained the trans-former to the backhoe’s loader bucket to be carried up the hill. But to keep the backhoe from getting stuck in the mud on the trip up the hill, the trucks had to be backed down the driveway to clear the way for the backhoe to drive up on firmer ground.

Two of the crew pulled new wire

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On the return trip, the convoy visited the truck stop to top off the gas tanks. Back at the co-op, they checked the paperwork for the next day’s jobs, then stocked the trucks with the equipment they would need for an early start.

Before we said goodbye, I asked Larry what he thought of the time it took to follow all the procedures of their work day.

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Created as a civilian “army” of female farm workers formally known as the Woman’s Land Army of Amer-

ica (WLAA), the organization was modeled after the Women’s Land Army of Great Britain. Few had any experience in farm life. Before taking on their new roles, most received some agriculture training at local colleges and universities, including Pennsyl-vania State College (later Penn State University) and the Penn-sylvania School of Horticulture for Women (which eventually became a part of Temple Univer-sity). Those same colleges and universities, along with other nonprofit organizations, funded the WLAA. Some of the colleges and universities used farmerettes in their own farming ventures.

The WLAA was designed so farmerettes were to be paid the same wages as men would be paid for the same job. The program, which was more popular on the East Coast and West Coast than in the Midwest or Southern regions, provided workers for individual farms, as well as public gardens. Some individuals were placed on

In early 1918, the Battle of Bear Val-ley — the final battle of the American Indian Wars — was fought in Arizona; the 1918 flu pandemic — one of the world’s deadliest natural disasters that would eventually kill more than 50 million people — was underway; and the Unit-ed States was embroiled in the War to End All Wars — World War I. Women were second-class citizens, without even so much as the right to vote in U.S. elec-tions that would determine their future.

In the hills and valleys of rural Pennsylvania, a workforce crisis was underway — as it was in many farming communities across the nation. Young men, who typically would be agricul-ture’s main source of labor, went off to war, leaving their families to struggle with the absence of not only their loved ones, but often their farmhands as well.

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small farms where they worked alone, while others operated in groups, often housed in camps near their worksite.

Nearly 20,000 women in 30 states — including Pennsylvania — took part in the WLAA, although it is widely rec-ognized that thousands of rural women have always labored on family farms without formal training or connection to any program.

The WLAA was disbanded in 1920 after World War I veterans returned home to resume the jobs they held before deploying overseas.

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more than 3 million women during the 1940s as young men again went off to fight, this time in World War II. The WLA was a federally funded program organized through the U.S. Crop Corps — a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture — founded to help alleviate the shortage of farm workers during wartime, but it operated at the state and local level. Just as the WLAA had done before, the WLA disbanded as young men returned from war and returned to their jobs in agriculture.

Although they volunteered to par-ticipate in these efforts to help their country in a time of war, some of the

women who participated in both the WLAA and WLA, especially those who had not grown up doing farm chores or even lived on a farm, found the work to be difficult and physically challenging.

A Mount Holyoke College (Mas-sachusetts) student who worked on a Pennsylvania farm in 1943 as part of the WLA was quoted in The New York Times Magazine in August 1943 (and later in “On the Farm Front: The Women’s Land Army in World War II” by Stephanie A. Carpenter) as saying, “If you have never threshed, you don’t know what physical labor is! Down by the barn they had a great machine that looked like a hideous, eternally greedy insect, run with a long belt attached to a tractor. A wagon piled with bun-dles of barley is drawn up beside the platform. Two people toss the bundles with pitchforks to the man who pitches them into the monster’s gaping jaws. I helped load 100-pound sacks of barley into wagons. (Later) I stood on the wagon and placed the bundles as they were pitched up. I liked that job much better. There are drawbacks — you have to look out for pitchforks and it is the filthiest job I ever encountered, but it doesn’t give you blisters. And it is a job of skill. You have to … put the bundles in the right places so they don’t fall off. There is an art to it.” l

The following letter from President Woodrow Wilson was published in The New York Times on April 11, 1918:

To the Executive Committee of the WLAMrs. Henry Wade Rogers, ChairmanI am gratified to hear of the plan of the

Woman’s Land Army to help increase the food supply of our country and the allies through enrolling active and patriotic young women in self-supporting groups or units to aid in cultivating crops when the farmers have need of them. I trust that our farmers, like the farmers of Great Britain and Canada, will avail themselves of this aid to the fullest extent practicable, and that the response of our loyal young women to this need, wherever it exists, will be generous and complete.

Cordially and sincerely yours,Woodrow Wilson

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ARTHURS TRACTORS, specializing in vintage Ford tractors, 30 years experience, online parts catalog/prices, Indiana, Pa. 15701. Contact us at 877-254-FoRD (3673) or www.arthurstractors.com.

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don’t cheat me out of my funBy Earl Pitts, American

Social commentary from Earl pitts — a.k.a. GARY BUR BANK, a nation ally syndicated radio per son ality — can be heard on the following radio stations that cover electric cooperative ser-vice territories in Pennsylvania: WANB-FM 103.1 Pittsburgh;

WARM-AM 590 Wilkes-Barre/ Scran ton; WIoo-AM 1000 Carlisle; WEEo-AM 1480 Shippensburg; WMTZ-FM 96.5 Johnstown; WQBR-FM 99.9/92.7 McElhattan; WLMI-FM 103.9 Kane; and WVNW-FM 96.7 Burnham- Lewistown. You can also find him at earlpittsa-merican.com.

Now you can get extra money, property and spaces by cheatin’. They pass out cheat cards before the game starts. You might have to try to skip payin’ somebody rent or collect $200 even without passin’ go. They said so many people cheat at Monopoly that it would be fun to make it part of the game.

Well, first of all, I am America’s foremost Monopoly cheater. Especially when I played with my little boy, Earl Junior, and his little buddies, who just happen to be dumber than freshly washed gravel. I remember one time I told Junior that I passed go and col-lected 200 bucks three rolls in a row. Makin’ that even more impressive — we were playin’ Rack-O at the time.

I remember he couldn’t count money good back then, so I’d give him a couple of $5 bills for landin’ on Boardwalk. I’d tell him it was $5,000.

Sometimes he would get frus-trated, and he’d say, “Daddy, are you cheatin’?”

And I would act offended and say, “Why, son, winners never cheat. And cheaters never win.”

I think that’s a quote from Lance Armstrong, hisself. Of course, I was cheatin’ and winnin’ like I found a broken slot machine.

And this is my main problem with

the new Monopoly cheaters edition. If you make cheatin’ part of the game, then it’s not cheatin’. It’s part of the game, right? In fact, the cheaters edi-tion of Monopoly ruins cheatin’ at Monopoly. What the heck, man?

Wake up, America! No sir, we ain’t playin’ no cheaters edition of Monop-oly. That ain’t right. We’re gonna cheat at regular Monopoly, just like the good Lord intended. I’m Earl Pitts, American.

People been askin’ me how come I been irritable the last couple days. Well, I ain’t irritable, so

shut the heck up!Fact is, my better half, Pearl, has

been tweakin’ my diet. And if you throw an ol’ guy off his feed, he’s likely to be a bit off.

See what happened was, I had to go for a physical to get my blood pressure pills renewed. That’s the deal these days — you can’t just keep renewin’ them pills every year — you got to go get checked out.

But anyhow, the doc gets my blood tests back and she gives me a call.

She goes, “Earl, do you know any-thing about diabetes?”

And I go, “Oh, my goodness, don’t tell me I got the diabetes.”

She goes, “No, don’t panic. But if your numbers get close, then you got ‘pre-diabetes.’”

And I was like, “Oh, my goodness, don’t tell me I got the pre-diabetes.”

And she goes, “Settle down, Earl. You don’t have pre-diabetes. But your blood test shows you are close to hav-ing pre-diabetes.”

That’s right, and I knew right then my whole life was goin’ to change when I found out I had pre-pre-diabetes.

She says, “Earl, you can take care of this with diet and exercise.”

Well, No. 1, I don’t got to exercise on account of I’m an ol’ guy who works for a livin’. If you find one of them at the exercisin’ club, well, that’s just somebody who found a Free Week coupon in his ValPak. No, we’re not gonna make that a habit. We sweat for a livin’ — we don’t gotta do it for fun.

She goes, “Earl, your diet can make a world of difference. Do you eat a lot of bread?”

I says, “No, ma’am.”Now, I can eat a whole bag a’ rolls

by myself. With butter. You ever get one of them fresh baguettes at the Piggly-Wiggly? I’ll down one of them suckers like it was a bread stick at the Olive Garden. But bread? No.

Wake up, America! So then the doc asked me to put Pearl on the phone, and now I’m eatin’ a lot different. And yes, I might be just a tad irritable. I’m Earl Pitts, starvin’ American. l

I heard somethin’ the other day that made me think. Y’all know the game of Monopoly, right? One a’

them doofus, brain-dead board games we played when we was kids. Well, they got a new version out called “The Cheaters Edition.”

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