WREC Board of Director hopeful Jon Dahl will take a day off campaigning this week to have a baby.
The 31 year old Starr Valley rancher and wife Tammy are expected their third child and first son this week.
“Even without the election it is a pretty hectic week.” Dahl admitted. “I have to get the hay in before the storms and the baby is coming anytime.”
A member of the Elko County and Nevada State Farm Bureau Board, Dahl said he was encouraged to run for a director’s seat by long time WREC Chairman Vernon Dalton.
“There has never been a director from Starr Valley on the board.” Dahl said. “And there are some issues we need to address such as three phase power for irrigation.”
Wells Rural Electric Company is a member-owned nonprofit cooperative which was incorporated in 1958 to provide electric power to at first Wells and later to all of the communities of rural Elko County and some parts of Tooele County, Utah.
The company holds elections for its board of directors every year. This year ballots will be mailed out by the end of July and due in by the end of August.
In addition to Dahl, incumbents Scott Egbert and Fred Montes de Oca and challengers Dale Lotspeich, Paul Bradshaw, Jim Whited and Chris Otto are also seeking a spot on the electric cooperative’s board of directors.
Wells Rural Electric is perennially rated as one of the premier electric cooperatives in the nation with some of the lowest rates for power in the United States and one of the best service records nationwide.
A June 2011 survey by the Edison Electric Institute found that the national average rate was 12.07 cents per kilowatt hour. Nevada’s average was 12.16. WREC is well below both marks at just 7.2 cents per kWh.
