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2020 CALENDAR
HIGHLINE notes Community-focused | Member-driven
December 2019
DECEMBER 2019
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MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Winter Solstice
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Christmas Eve OFFICE CLOSED at 12:30
Hanukkah Begins
Christmas Day OFFICE CLOSED
Kwanzaa Begins
29 30 31 Hanukkah Ends
New Year’s Eve
We are able to maintain an employee count of just 95 full-time staff, by maximizing the technology available to us, saving our members money.
JANUARY 2020
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 Kwanzaa Ends
New Year’s Day OFFICE CLOSED
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
26 27 28 29 30 31
Power Supply Generation Capacity: 55% ND Clean Coal, 34% ND Wind, 8% ND Hydro, 3% Other
Chinese New Year
FEBRUARY 2020
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Groundhog Day
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Lincoln’s Birthday
Valentine’s Day
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Presidents’ Day
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Mardi Gras
Ash Wednesday
HBA Home & Garden Show FREE Parking
(Courtesy of Cass County Electric Co-op)
We maintain 5,676 miles of line in a 10 county area. In comparison, the distance from Fargo to Tokyo, Japan is 5,740 miles.
MARCH 2020
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Daylight Savings Time Starts
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 St. Patrick’s Day
Spring Equinox
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
More than 23 percent of our total membership (14,024 accounts) is enrolled in paperless billing. It costs us roughly 60 cents to create and mail a paper bill each month. Thank you to those of you who participate!
APRIL 2020
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 April Fools’ Day
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Palm Sunday
Passover Begins
Good Friday OFFICE CLOSED
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Tax Day
Easter Sunday
Passover Ends
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Annual Meeting Delta by Marriott, Fargo
Earth Day
Ramadan Begins
26 27 28 29 30
Cass County Electric Cooperative powers over 53,000 businesses, homes, schools and farms in ten counties!
MAY 2020
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1 2
ELECTRICAL SAFETY MONTH
Arbor Day in North Dakota
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Cinco de Mayo
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mother’s Day
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Ramadan Ends
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Eid al-Fitr
31
Memorial Day OFFICE CLOSED
20,955 members are signed up for Autopay saving the cooperative money. If all members currently using a credit card for autopay switched to ACH, we would save almost $160,000 in processing fees each year.
JUNE 2020
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Flag Day
Summer Solstice
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Father’s Day
28 29 30
Be safe around electricity and remember to call 811 before you dig! Last year dig-ins caused more than 50 outages!
JULY 2020
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 Independence Day Observed OFFICE CLOSED
Independence Day
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Cass County Day at the RRV Fair FREE admission from 11:00 - 1:00
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31 Eid-al-Adha
In 2019, lightning storms caused 126 outages in our service territory. Consider using surge protectors on valuable household equipment.
AUGUST 2020
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 We rank #1 in the nation for power reliability, when compared to co-ops our size.
SEPTEMBER 2020
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Labor Day OFFICE CLOSED
Patriot Day
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 National Grandparent’s Day
Rosh Hashana
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Fall Equinox
27 28 29 30 Yom Kippur
Cass County Electric Cooperative Core Values: Safety, Integrity, Innovation, Accountability, and Community
OCTOBER 2020
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1 2 3
CO-OP MONTH
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Member Meeting Valley City Eagles
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Columbus Day
Member Meeting Fargo Hilton
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Halloween
Cass County Electric Cooperative is one of more than 900 electric cooperatives providing power to over 56 percent of the nation’s landmass.
NOVEMBER 2020
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Daylight Savings Time Ends
North Dakota became a state in 1889
Election Day
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Veterans Day OFFICE CLOSED
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Thanksgiving Day OFFICE CLOSED
Black Friday
Small Business Saturday
29 30
More than 10,500 members are signed up for one of our off-peak programs, allowing us to control certain heating equipment in their homes, providing them with an off-peak rate that is nearly half of the regular rate.
DECEMBER 2020
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Hanukkah Begins
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Hanukkah Ends
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Winter Solstice
Christmas Eve CLOSED at 12:30
Christmas Day OFFICE CLOSED
27 28 29 30 31 New Year’s Eve
Because we are a not-for-profit electric cooperative, our members receive capital credits. Capital credits are excess margins that weren’t spent on utility bills, infrastructure, or operations.
Kwanzaa Begins
JANUARY 2021
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1 2 Kwanzaa Ends New Year’s Day OFFICE CLOSED
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 Interested in electric vehicles? We have discounted rates and provide a free in-home charger when you charge with us!
Cass County Electric Cooperative
- Board of Directors -
Marcy Svenningsen District AL, Valley City Board Chair
Jeff Triebold
District 4, Fargo Vice Chair
Wendy Loucks
John Froelich
District 1, Valley City
District 5(1), Fargo
Tom Seymour
Douglas Anderson District 2, Arthur
District 5(2), West Fargo
Glenn D. Mitzel
Sid Berg
District 3, Colfax Treasurer
District 5(3), West Fargo Secretary
Kalvin Hoff
District 6, Horace
OUTAGE INFO VIEW OUTAGE DETAILS Check our live outage viewer with the Cass County Electric app or at CassCountyElectric.com. REPORT AN OUTAGE It is important that each outage is reported. Our outage management system helps us identify outages and respond to them quickly. To report a power outage, call 701-356-4499 or 888-277-4424. Our power control technicians may be managing the outage and will be unable to answer the phone. In this situation, our interactive voice response system will register your account information for our technicians to review. You can also use our app, by clicking on report an issue on the bottom of the Home Screen. RECEIVE OUTAGE NOTIFICATIONS If you have an email and cell phone number listed on your account, we will send you email and text notifications for both planned and unplanned outages affecting your account. If there is an outage affecting more than 350 members, we will do our best to keep you updated on Facebook. Please do not report an outage on Facebook, as we do not monitor it 24/7, report it using one of the options listed above.
SHARE THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT WITH A SENIOR! Be a Santa to a Senior by Home Instead Senior Care identifies seniors in our area that may be lonely or financially challenged and coordinates the purchase and delivery of a holiday gift. This year, Cass County Electric Cooperative is partnering with Home Instead to help make the holidays special for local seniors that otherwise may not receive a gift. Here’s how you can help: • Visit Cass County Electric Cooperative at 4100 32nd Ave S, Fargo • Remove a bulb with the senior’s gift request from the tree in our lobby. • Purchase the requested gift(s) listed on the bulb. • Place the bulb and unwrapped gift(s) in the designated box by Monday, December 9, 2019.
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