Coldwater Solar awards community grants
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Apex Clean Energy and esaSolar, developers of a proposed 150 MW solar farm in Coldwater and Ovid townships. announced six Coldwater-area programs and organizations as the recipients of the first round of Coldwater Solar Community Grants.
Receiving grants are: Sunrise Rotary Foundation’s Promise Scholarship, Coldwater High School Interact Club, Coldwater schools Lakeland Readers are Leaders program, Branch County Habitat for Humanity, Branch County District Library and Corner Farmers Market.
While the 1,500-acre project is still in the planning stages, the companies launched the program earlier this year to support community organizations making an impact in the following areas: Building Healthy Communities, Economic Development, Environmental Sustainability, and Promoting Education.
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How much “pedal power” does it take to keep the lights on in your house? Young visitors at the Children’s Museum of Branch County can now find out, thanks to a partnership between the Children’s Museum and the Coldwater Board of Public Utilities.
A newly-installed interactive exhibit at the Children’s Museum, “The Pedal Power,” encourages visitors to pedal a bike to keep the lights on in four different rooms of a house display. Every time a light switch is turned on, the bike gets progressively harder to pedal until all four light switches are on and the “pedal power” is significant.