OPALCO's 75th Anniversary https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Carolyn Harrison Sisley – Founding Member Family Coffelt Family – First Recorded Membership World’s Longest Cable Laid From Anacortes to Decatur Island Home The Bruns-Madan Legacy Story “To Date” Poem by Zoa H.Cowden, 1940 Katie Jensen – Member Family Since 1953 Union Now! OPALCO Becomes IBEW Shop Island Network Goes Live Orcas Island Puts Up First Power Lines New Chief Engineer Hired: Eber Bruns OPALCO Buys Land on Lopez, Builds Generating Plant NRECA Founded Schoolkids Design First Logo “Willie Wiredhand” Mascot Introduced Willie Wiredhand Debuts at OPALCO Tidal Current Destroys Lopez-San Juan Cable Lopez-San Juan Cable Breaks Again Four New Cables Laid Between Lopez and San Juan Island – ADD PIX 2004 Cable Install Photo Story 1970s Crew Washington Public Power Supply System Debacle Lineman Ole Pederson Tragically Killed New General Manager: Doug Bechtel Armitage Island Lights Up 1993 Office Staff Third “100-Year Storm” Creates Islands-Wide Work Parties Project PAL is Born to Help Members in Need Videos OPALCO Adopts Underground Plan OPALCO Starts Selling “Green Power” First Fiber Optic Cable Laid from Anacortes to Islands Giant Residential Solar Array Starts Feeding Power into OPALCO Grid Cornelius Steps in as General Manager “Island Network” Internet Service Pilot Project Launched Island Network Beefs-Up Back-Up, Signs on Medical Clinics Article: “OPALCO Puts Finishing Touches on Underground Cable Project” (November, 2004) Dismantling of Old Diesel Generators: 2007- 2010 The Broadband Expansion: Island Network Considers Islands-Wide Service Green Power Incentive Program Launched Co-op Signs 20-Year Contract with Bonneville Power Orcas Island Generating Plant Completed OPALCO Beacon Newsletter October, 1956 Photos Generating Plant Expansion 1955 Submarine Cable Break Story OPALCO Heroically Files for Bankruptcy in Response to WPPSS Quagmire OPALCO Awards Banquet – 2007 Jane Barfoot Hodde, Member Family Since 1937 Mildred Sandwith, Member Family Since 1943