Historical happenings: May 1938: Big day approaching
By May 20, 1938, there were 131 homes wired with the remainder of 300 to be wired and officially inspected. Light fixtures hung with bulbs in place long before the energizing set for June 25. San Luis Valley REC is the second oldest cooperative in Colorado; the first organized was Grand Valley Rural Power Lines, with offices in Grand Junction. (San Luis Valley Historian, Volume XXVI #3, 1994)
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When Maxine Estes was cleaning out her lock box in 2002, she found the original certificate issued to her father, V. B. Thompson when he signed up for electricity with the San Luis Valley Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. in 1938. (Newsboy, July 2002)