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Community Calendar County Republicans To Meet Friday i The Madison County Republican Party will hold an impor- ( tant meeting at the Madison County Courthouse on Friday, ] September 5, beginning at 7 p.m. . Fall campaign plans will be , finalized. All members and candidates are urged to attend. American Legion Meets Tonight The American Legion Post 317 will hold their meeting on I September 4 beginning at 7 p.m. in the Legion Hall on Backstreet. All members are urged to attend. Sluder Family Reunion The annual Sluder reunion will be held September 7 at 1 p.m. in the Woodfin Community Center. All relatives and friends are invited to attend and bring a picnic lunch. For more infor mation call 683-4236. Phillips Family Reunion Set The decendents of Robert Marion and Rachel Fender Phillips will hold a family reunion September 14 at the home of Ralph Philips in Konnarock, Virginia. All friends and relatives are invited to attend. For more information contact Jack Phillips at 689-5115. Square Dance Class Offered The Greater Ivy Community Center will hold beginning Western Square Dance classes every Thursday starting September 4, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Costs is $2 per person. In structor for the classes is Gary Mundy. Photo by Willi am Lec FBEMC LINEMAN MAKES REPAIRS following accident that blacked-out parts of Mars Hill and Marshall last week. The NEWS RECORD SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY SINCE 1901 Thursday, September 4, 1986 25c FBEMC Signs Agreement With Federal Power Agency By ROBERT KOENIG Officials with the French Broad Electric Membership Corp. (FBEMC) and the Southeastern Power Administration ? (SEPA) signed an agreement last week that will help reduce local electric bills. Unfortunately, FBEMC customers may not enjoy the reduced rates for very long. The agreement signed last week calls for SEPA to supply French Broad EMC with 8,200 kilowatt hours of peaking power each month. The cheaper SEPA power will help reduce the peak charges FBEMC pays to Carolina Power and Light(CP&L), the co-operative's principal power supplier. By lowering the peak rates each month by using SEPA-furnished power, French Broad EMC officials estimate the cooperative will save as much as $1 million per year. While the agreement with SEPA is good news for local FBEMC customers, officials warn that savings as a result of the agreement will soon be offset by an expected rate increase by CP&L. FBEMC general manager Charles Tolley estimates that im mediate savings to the average residential customer will be between $2-3 per month. However, Tolley is quick to add that the anticipated CP&L rate increase will force FBEMC to pass along additional costs to members. The FBEMC board of directors will meet on Sept. 23 to decide how the savings as a result of the SEPA agreement will be used. "They can do one of three things," Tolley said. "They can wait until CP&L raises rates and put the money in escrow to keep our rate increase down. Or they can lower rates now, or give back the money to customers in the form of credits on their bills." Tolley is concerned that customers won't realize that their rates have been reduced if CP&L acts quickly on an expected rate increase. "We've been telling customers that this was coming for three years. If we raise our rates right after this, they'll want to know what we did with the money." OFFICIALS WITH FRENCH BROAD EMC signed agreement with the Southeastern Power Authority last week to purchase low-cost power from the federal agency. In photo above. FBEMC president John O. Corbett, left, and I.E. Clevenger. right, review documents with SEPA administrator Harry Geisinger. Although the average FBEMC customer now using 550 kilowatt hours per month will see a savings of about $3 per month as a result of the latest agreement, local customers' bills will increase if CP&L is granted a substantial increase as is expected. Tolley said the last rate increase, of five percent, came in April, 1985. The FBEMC general manager said that CP&L can be ex pected to seek a wholesale price rate increase soon, when the cost of the Sharon Harris nuclear plant construction can be in cluded in the rate increase. The Raleigh nuclear plant is ex pected to begin operations in early 1987. -('onlinuwl on I'ane 2 Construction fm ? '< 1 ? " J ff., -jP. ' I ' Accident Causes Blackout Residents in Marshall and Mars Hill were without power last Thurs day. August 28. when power lines along Sweetwater Rd in Marshall were knocked down. For most, the lack of electricity lasted only an hour and twenty minutes, from 10:15 to 11:35 a.m. Residents along Sweetwater Rd. were without power for most of the day as repair crews from Carolina Power and Electric and French Broad Electric repaired the two transmitter lines that went down. Cause of the downed lines was due to nearby construction of a new road way from U.S. 25-70 to the Little Pine and Redmon Dam area. Bulldozers at the site accidently toppled a tree, ac cording to Richard Thomason. opera tions engineer for French Broad Electric. According to Thomason. electricity was restored as quickly as possible by rerouting its power through another substation. By WII.I.IAM I.KK In a special meeting called last Wednesday night the Marshall Board of Aldermen heard from Richard Kingston, of the Marshall Town Plan ning Board, about progress made in saving the old Southern Railroad depot building. Kingston told the board that a por tion of downtown Marshall has been placed on a statewide study list by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. Those buildings and other monuments or points of interest will be considered for future nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. While the depot is currently not on the statewide list. Kingston said that the Dept. of Cultural Resources will place it before its review committee in October for inclusion. Kingston said the railroad was close to having a wrecking crew tear down the depot two weeks ago before the Public Utilities Commission step ped in with an injunction to save it. The PUC has scheduled a public hear ing for December to determine the fate of the Marshall depot. MARSHALL'S RAILROAD DEPOT A citizens group, Friends of the Marshall Depot, has recently been formed to come up with a plan for the renovation and future use of the depot if it can be saved. Kingston told the board that he felt Southern Railroad wants to co operate in saving the depot as a historical place, and is awaiting a proposal from the town for its pur chase or removal. Kingston said the railroad is willing to lease the property to the town, but would require the property to be in sured for $S million. Kingston said -Continued on H?Rr H Marshall To Extend Sewer, Water Lines , Install Fire Hydrants voted last week to allocate its share of Senate Bill 2 (water and sewer funds, distributed through the county com mistimes > for four projects in the By WII.I.IAM l?. Marshall Board of AldertiK.ii A total of $65,342 has been given to Marshall by the Madison Count* Commissioners, The increased bj an rtkJi to Marshall two funds must be match ed by the 1 '* own monies properties. In March Ihe town allocated Jlu.oou of its toward the completion of (hose lines, and will use an equal amount of the slate funds Another 1.000 feet of water line is Reeded along Roberts Hill Rd. The project is has been funded through a stale grant, but that has only paid for 25 percent of ?costs The town will be funding another 25 percent on its owi with the other half coming from the state funds W, ? The town also plans to complete an cent years and the addilonal beds have been suggested by the Stale Department of Natural Resources and Community Development. Mar shall hat been forced to remove its sludge under NRCD guidelines pro hibiting effhient from the plant to be spilled into the French Broad Costs of the two additional sludge beds was estimated at $40,000 to $50,000 by the towns engineer. Gary McCm. McG.II said the four projects urould come dose to fulfilling the town's $t30.0Q&commitment Aldermen Ed Nile* ask?-<| i town consider riepairing t with any left hydrants, two at Madison High and one at Marshall Primary. The nearest hyCfrant to the schools was along 25-70 at the Ingal's Shopping Center. The town of Marshall is also cur rently considering means of shutting down its water tank atop Mashburn Hill for cleaning Aldermen John Dodson and engineer Gary McGill are currently studying the possibility of routing ill water lines through the second tank near the county landfill
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