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Police in Alpena responded to a crash involving a pair of pickups in downtown Alpena on Easter Sunday. One truck left the road and crashed into a lamp post, knocking it to the ground. Nobody was injured in the wreck.
ALPENA–The Alpena Police Department responded to a two-vehicle crash near the intersection of Chisholm St. and Third Ave. shortly after noon on Easter Sunday.
The man driving one of the two trucks involved said the other pickup ran a red light and they collided, causing him to veer off of the street and onto the sidewalk. The crash took out one of the city’s decorative lamps outside Myers Fashions, and debris was scattered in the roadway. Neither one of the occupants of the trucks were injured.
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I was born in 1943, during that interval of time between ice chests and the ability to plug a full-sized freezer into an electrical outlet. In these “in-between” years, refrigerators came with freezers large enough to hold two ice cube trays or a couple Kool-Aid popsicles but not both.
In 1930, only 3% of rural homes had electricity. In 1936, at President Franklin Roosevelt’s insistence, Congress provided the resources necessary to bring electricity to millions of people, providing millions more with employment during the darkest days of the Great Depression.
One year later, Presque Isle Electric set its first pole in the village of Posen bringing eclectic power to 82 families. By 1959, 90% of the rural homes in this country had electricity.