Sunday, March 13, 2011

Earth, Wind, and Fire[truck]

“I turned on the lights and blew the siren
and drove through town to the station.”
Rob Rohwedder
Fire Chief of Baldwin, Iowa Fire Department
Baldwin gets firetruck for a buck

Earth-Friendly Volunteers
Daily Sentinel · License plates turned into the Plymouth County [Iowa] Courthouse are recycled—and the money used for conservation. It started around 1998 when Tom De Koster explored the concept and started recycling the plates and giving the money to the Plymouth County Conservation Foundation.

Wind Farm Means Big Bucks for Local Economy
Mountain View Telegram · Nearly everyone packed into the Torrance County [New Mexico] Commission chambers Wednesday morning supported a request by Iberdrola Renewables for a special use district on 87,000 acres near Encino that will be home to the El Cabo wind farm. 

Firetruck for a Buck
Telegraph Herald · Can’t get much for a buck these days—a soda, a pair of socks, a thin burger, a pack of pencils. But if you happen to be the Baldwin [Iowa] Fire Department, you might pick up a shiny firetruck for a dollar.
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