LETTERS
FROM THE EDITOR
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Missing summers when the kids were young BY MONA NEELEY
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t’s July and I’m a little MONA NEELEY nostalgic. For years, July meant camp with my kids — East India Heritage Camp. My husband and I adopted our kids from Kolkata, India, and each July throughout their school years we would join other families with kids from India at Snow Mountain Ranch, the YMCA camp in the Rockies between Fraser and Granby. For four days, my kids were immersed in their birth culture. They heard Indian folk tales, learned Indian dances and traditions, and smelled Indian food being prepared (which was mostly eaten by parents as the kids all preferred the hot dogs). And while the kids absorbed all things Indian and made new friends, we as parents also learned and shared and enjoyed watching our kids bloom as they were surrounded by others with their same ethnic background. It was a special time each summer when we celebrated the unique family that we are. Mona Neeley is the statewide editor of Colorado Country Life, which is published in coordination with your local electric cooperative. Its goal is to provide information from your local electric co-op to you, its consumer-members.
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For the Love of (Carousel) Horses
We thoroughly enjoyed the article on Colorado carousels (May ’20). We bought a C.W. Parker horse at an estate sale in 2001 and restored it in 2012 (photo above). We did a lot of research and discovered we did, in fact, have a C.W. Parker horse because there was one original shoe that had his name on it. We also visited the C.W. Parker Museum in Leavenworth, Kansas. William and Ellen Ritter, Berthoud Poudre Valley REA consumer-members I have a personal connection to the Burlington carousel. About seven years ago, when I was head of project development for juwi Wind, my team developed a wind farm near Burlington that we named The Carousel Wind Farm to honor the wonderful carousel in that community. The electricity from Carousel is sold to (co-op power supplier) Tri-State Generation and Transmission. (NextEra Energy Resources bought the project and renamed it Carousel Wind Energy Center. It still produces clean renewable energy for Tri-State and keeps the connection with the community.) Eric Simons, Buena Vista Sangre de Cristo Electric consumer-member
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SEND US YOUR LETTERS Editor Mona Neeley, 5400 Washington St., Denver, CO 80216 or mneeley@ coloradocountrylife.org. Include name and address. Letters may be edited for length. COLOR ADO COUNTRY LIFE JULY 2020
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