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Save on Nordic ski equipment before the season starts
TRAVERSE CITY - Winter will be here before you know it and if you are into cross country skiing. It’s time to get your equipment ready, but that can get pricey. This snow may not be here now, but in a few months, it will be. So you better be ready to go with your equipment for when that first storm hits. “Folks are wanting to change equipment all the time. This is a great opportunity to offload that equipment. It’s a little bit challenging to go online and buy equipment sight unseen. This is a place where you have experts… that can help you size it up. So, it’s a great place to sell equipment,” says Eric Jean, Board Member Vasa Ski Club. Ski equipment can add up to be thousands of dollars but this event hosted by Brick Wheels and the Vasa Ski Club is aimed to get people into the sport without the high price.
Bay Area Transportation Authority received $800,000 grant for solar panel
TRAVERSE CITY - The Bay Area Transportation Authority or BATA, has been given an $800,000 solar grant from the Michigan Public Service Commission. The grant will be used to put 650 solar panels on the roof of the BATA headquarters. The goal is for the solar panels to offset the cost of the electricity in the building which could save BATA $63,000 a year in utilities. BATA is focused on limiting their environmental impact on the planet and the solar panel project will play a big part in that. “Having a project like this to have solar electricity, that also translates into our EV vans that we’re piloting just creates a full circle in that connection because you’re powering the EV vans with your solar power from the roof of your headquarters. It’s just a great way to be environmentally friendly and provide an essential service,” says Eric Linguar, Director of Communications and Development. The next steps are for BATA to purchase and install the solar panels by Spring 2025.
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