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“Check out� a Kill-A-Watt
Pascagoula School District and Community of Hope receive $5,000 of Singing River Electric NHN grants
Left: Pascagoula School District Director of Accountability Peggy Feinberg (left) accepts a $2,500 Neighbors Helping Neighbors Community Grant check from SRE Manager of Communications Lorri Freeman, along with Pascagoula High School Science Department Head Leigh Hanna and PHS Principal Al Sparkman. Funds will purchase a WeatherBug Station for the Family Interactive Center that will collect, process and broadcast weather data and be monitored by Pascagoula High School science and math students. Right: SRE Communications Specialist Amanda Parker (fourth from left) presents a $2,500 Neighbors Helping Neighbors Community Grant check to Community of Hope Director Marley Walker along with volunteers Lynn Wilson, Jack Boreing, Dee Boreing, Nancy Walker, Shirley Hope and Paul Hope. Funds will purchase a utility trailer and a table saw to be used for home repairs and yard maintenance projects for the elderly, homebound and indigent.
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Are you curious about how much it costs to operate electrical items in your home? There are several low-cost or no-cost tools available for someone to monitor kilowatt-hour use from home, and they are easy to install and use. The Kill-A-Watt monitor is available for FREE to check out from any Jackson-George Regional Library System branch. This is made available thanks to a Singing River Electric Neighbors Helping Neighbors grant. The Kill-A-Watt monitors are 120-volt models that plug into a wall and allow you to plug any small appliance into them. The screen will register amperage, voltage and kilowatt hours for the time it is plugged in. Power monitors are also manufactured by several companies such as Black and Decker, Efergy Elite home monitors and Battic Door Envi home monitors. The cost of these units range from $35 to $150. With these monitors, you have to program the cost per kilowatt hour into the unit to begin, then turn on the appliance and watch the screen while the monitor calculates the cost of the operation. Some models can also be programmed to record your daily kilowatt hour use. For more energy-saving tips, visit www.singingriver.com.
May is electrical safety month! Visit www.singingriver.com to learn more about electric safety and how you and your family can learn safe practices. Remember... Stay away from power lines 10 feet in every direction Always match bulb wattage to light socket Unplug cords by plug, never the cord Keep electric appliances away from water