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Basin Electric St. Baldrick's events bring in $100,000+

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Basin Electric's second St. Baldrick's event is a success.

Dakota Gasification Company - March 30, 2009

Bismarck, N.D. – St. Baldrick’s fever hit Basin Electric for the second year in a row, and as a result, nearly 200 people across North Dakota, Wyoming and Minnesota shaved their heads for childhood cancer research and raised a grand total of almost $103,000, and the money continues to come in. This surpasses last year’s event, which included 109 participants who raised more than $94,000. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the involvement from the communities in which Basin Electric has a presence.

St. Baldrick's is the world's largest volunteer-driven fundraising event for childhood cancer research. Thousands of volunteers shave their heads in solidarity of children with cancer, while requesting donations of support from friends and family.

Joining the cooperative family was participation from Verendrye, Slope, Mor-Gran-Sou and Roughrider electric cooperatives, along with the National Information Solutions Cooperative. Also making a big St. Baldrick’s footprint were contractors and employees from the Dry Fork Station construction site in Northeast Wyoming, near Gillette. Fifty-five individuals shaved their head and raised more than $20,000.

“The success of this event – and the outpouring of support from so many generous, kind people – has blown me away,” says Ron Harper, Basin Electric CEO and general manager. “This only confirms that we are all one community. The desire to do good by so many people is a force that should be recognized.”

Tandem events were held at the cooperative’s Antelope Valley Station, Leland Olds Station, Great Plains Synfuels Plant, Laramie River Station, Dry Fork Station, Mandan Transmission System Maintenance Shop and also at MDU Resources Group. Verendrye Electric’s event had 14 individuals shaving their heads, and they raised upwards of $6,000. MDU Resources Group raised more than $6,000 as well.

Participating were representatives or teams from the following:

North Dakota:
Verendrye Electric Cooperative
Slope Electric Cooperative
Roughrider Electric Cooperative
Mor-Gran-Sou Electric Cooperative
KFYR-TV Country Morning Today
Century High School
Dakota Wizards
Odney Advertising
Dakota Family Chiropractic Clinic
Dakota Family Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine Clinic
MDU Resources Group
NISC

Wyoming:
AZCO
Babcock & Wilcox Construction
LPR Construction
Sargent & Lundy
Titan Contracting and Leasing
Hettinger LLC

Minnesota:
Woodwinds Health Campus, Woodbury

In addition to head-shaving, participants had the option to cut 10 inches of their hair and provide a double donation, raise money for St. Baldrick’s and donate their hair to Locks of Love, a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis.

Since the first event in 2000, St. Baldrick’s volunteers have raised more than $72 million for life-saving research and events have been hosted in 48 states, in addition to Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, Northern Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

For more information about St. Baldrick’s visit http://www.stbaldricks.org. To learn more about Basin Electric’s St. Baldrick’s event visit http://www.stbaldricks.org/events/event_info.php?EventKey=2009-770#.

ABOUT BASIN ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE
Basin Electric is a consumer-owned, regional cooperative headquartered in Bismarck. It generates and transmits electricity to 125 member rural electric systems in nine states: Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. These member systems distribute electricity to about 2.6 million consumers.

Basin Electric’s generating resources include: two coal-based power plants in North Dakota – the Antelope Valley Station, Beulah, and the Leland Olds Station, Stanton; a coal-based power plant in Wyoming – the Laramie River Station, Wheatland; three peaking stations – the Spirit Mound Station, Vermillion, S.D.; the Groton Generation Station, Groton, S.D.; and the Wisdom Unit 2 Station, Spencer, Iowa; nine combustion-turbine generators (natural gas) in the Gillette, Wyo., area; four wind turbines – two near Minot, N.D., and two near Chamberlain, S.D.; the energy produced from six baseload waste-heat stations owned and operated by Ormat Technologies Inc. along the Northern Border Pipeline, and the output of three wind farms owned and operated by NextEra Energy Resources (formerly FPL Energy), Juno Beach, Fla. The wind farms are located near Wilton and Edgeley/Kulm, N.D.; the other is near Highmore, S.D. For more information, go to www.basinelectric.com.

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