News from neighbors
Logan County OKs permit for ‘solar garden’ to be part of HEA grid
STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, Dec. 5 — The Logan County Commissioners Tuesday approved a conditional use permit on 11 acres of land on County Road 370 for a “solar garden.”
The installation, which should begin construction sometime next summer, will feature 5,700 modules of single-track “follow the sun” solar panels that will generate 1.5 megawatts of electricity. The solar garden will be immediately south of the City of Sterling’s wastewater treatment facility, between County Road 370 and Interstate 76.
The solar garden is being built by Highline Solar 1, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Denver-based solar energy company Pivot Energy, in partnership with Highline Electric Association. Jon Fitzpatrick, director of project development for Pivot, told the commissioners Tuesday morning that construction should take between six and 10 weeks and should begin in late summer of 2019.
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Holmans now call Kenya home
IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, Dec. 6 — Nate and Cynthia Holman, formerly of Imperial, Nebraska, left for Africa in September to follow a calling to become full-time missionaries.
They sold their house and most of their belongings and traveled to Sierra Leone, a country in west Africa. They planned to work and live on a family-owned farm that is now a home for orphaned children.
The orphanage has over 180 children they feed, educate and care for. It also supports a number of widows on an acre of ground where they can grow food to make some income.
Nate is sharing his knowledge with the people about better methods of growing and storing their food, better hygiene in the face of limited water accessibility, training about building, electrical, plumbing, sanitation and water conservation.
Cynthia has been working with the children’s education and building relationships with about 22 women, teaching them the basics of starting their own businesses to grow vegetables and sell them and fish at the open market.
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