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10-20% of warm air from your home can be drawn into the chimney flue. You can spot a leaky damper by closing it and holding a lit candle inside the firebox.If the flame moves around or blows out, air is going up your chimney.
To resolve the problem, hire a chimney sweep for a good cleaning and to check the damper. It could reduce your annual heating bill by $500.
Can Save You Money
Greg was elected to the GCEA Board in 2011. After graduating from the University of Montana with a BA in Business, Greg moved to Crested Butte to teach skiing. He started a property management business a few years later and has been a small business owner since 1983.
Greg has been involved in Skyland Metropolitan and East River Sanitation Districts since 1988 and is currently chairman of both. He is also the president of two local homeowner association boards.
Greg and his wife Kathy have two sons attending Crested Butte Community School. Greg is involved in coaching the boys' teams from T-ball through managing club hockey. He enjoys the many activities Gunnison County has to offer from skiing, hunting, and fishing to riding his mountain bike.
Email: gwiggins@gcea.coop
Chris has served on the GCEA Board since 1998 and currently serves as the vice president. In addition, Chris serves as the chairman of the Technology Committee and the Board Policy - Rules, Regulations/Bylaws Committee. He is on the Financial Goals Committee and the Building Committee. Chris also serves as the president of the Colorado Rural Electric Association, a statewide legislative organization representing all twenty-two of Colorado's rural electric cooperatives.
Growing up in Georgia, Chris attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in environmental science and geology. He then moved to Mt. Crested Butte in 1990. Chris has further served his community as Mt Crested Butte planning commissioner, council member and most recently Mayor. Chris is proud to be a founding board member of the Office for Resource Efficiency (ORE) here in the Gunnison valley.
His wife Sara, an advertising consultant from the Washington DC area, joined Chris in Mt Crested Butte in 2003. An avid mountain climber, Chris has successfully climbed all 54 of the 14,000-ft peaks in Colorado and is currently closing in on climbing the 200 highest. He also enjoys kayaking, mountain biking, and skiing.
Email: cmorgan@gcea.coop
Mailing Address: PO Box 2324, Crested Butte, CO. 81224
Bart was elected to the GCEA Board in 2010. He serves on the Budget, Finance and Audit Committee; the Technology Committee; the Scholarship Committee; and the Board Policy - Rules, Regulations, and Bylaws Committee.
Bart moved to the valley in 1988, graduated from Western State College, and is now a local small business owner. He has been involved in the energy field for the past six years as a home energy auditor, renovator and building science educator. He resides in Crested Butte South.
Email: blaemmel@gcea.coop
Phone: (970) 349-1835
Cell Phone: (970) 901-8881
Mailing Address: 15 Kubler Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224
Steven was elected to the GCEA Board in 2011. He grew up in Michigan, graduated from the University of Iowa in 1977 and moved to Gunnison County that same year. He is a board member of the Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District, the Lake San Cristobal Water Activity Enterprise, and High Country Citizens' Alliance.
As a contractor, Steven has designed and built efficient homes that use the sun for space and water heating. He has designed and built three straw bale homes, two of which received high Energy Star ratings.
Steven and his wife Lyda Hardy have been married for 37 years and they have two children.
Email: sschechter@gcea.coop
Paul is the immediate past president of the GCEA Board and currently serves as secretary/treasurer. Paul has also served as vice president and assistant secretary/treasurer. He has completed the credentialed cooperative director certification as recommended by the National Rural Electric Association and has almost completed the board leadership certificate.
In the seven years Paul has served on the board he has been diligent each month researching and discussing renewable energy, rates, system reliability, and safety at management and board level. Paul has worked with the board to develop energy efficiency and renewable resources loan programs, and to implement a time of use rate that rewards members for staying off peak. He supported adding staff to help communicate these programs and research other possibilities of helping our members control costs. He believes we need to increase our efforts to incorporate clean renewable energy sources to our power portfolio and in our homes.
Paul has been a GCEA member since 1975 and a Hinsdale County business owner since 1985. He has a university degree in management with over 30 years experience in business management.
Paul has a proven record of commitment, preparation and effective decision making. He is dedicated to work for the best interest of Gunnison County Electric Association.
Paul and his wife Lynn have two children, Robert and Kimberly, and three grandsons, Shawn, Parker, and Dakota.
Email: phudgeons@gcea.coop
Mailing Address: PO Box 905, Lake City, CO 81235
John has been a GCEA director since 1997 and is a past president. He currently serves as assistant secretary/treasurer and is GCEA's representative to Western United Electric Supply where he serves as vice president. John has completed the required courses for a credentialed cooperative director, as well as board leadership training courses.
John has family roots that go deep into the local history. As a fourth generation Vader in the Gunnison Valley, John knows that area and the people and wants to continue to carry on the tradition of our locally owned and controlled cooperative business. He graduated from Gunnison High School and went to mechanic school in Phoenix, Arizona before working at Chapman Equipment Company in Gunnison for seven years. John then joined the Vader Ranch partnership with his parents, Joe and Levon Vader, where he worked until the ranch was sold in 1995, and has been the groundskeeper for the Gunnison Cemetery since 1992. He has had previous experience with governing boards as a director of the Gunnison Stockgrowers Association.
John and his wife Terry live east of Gunnison on a portion of the old Vader ranchland where they raised their four children. John still works full time for the Cemetery District and enjoys family time with the six grandkids and helping the neighbors with ranch work.
Email: jvader@gcea.coop
Lou has been a Gunnison County Electric Association board director since mid-1994 and currently serves as president. He is the chairman of the Budget, Finance and Audit Committee and the Financial Goals Committee. As the senior member of GCEA's board, Lou also serves on the board of our power supplier, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. He was recently elected treasurer of the Tri-State board.
Born in Salida, Colorado, Lou's roots are deep in this area. He has spent the summer months in Gunnison since 1958 on the family property west of town which is now part of Blue Mesa Lake. Lou earned a bachelor degree in accounting and business and began his career as a certified public accountant with one of the "Big Eight" firms in the country at that time. He remained in public accounting for ten years, the last few as a partner in his firm. He has held the position of CFO with various companies, both public and private, including Crested Butte Mountain Resort during the 1980s. He was part-owner and operated Alpine Express during the 1990s. Then, he was responsible for real estate development and operations of the Crested Butte Country Club until 2002.
Lou and his wife Jo Dee, who taught Spanish at Gunnison High School, have lived on the Gunnison River north of town since 1976. They have three sons: Ben, a graduate of Colorado State University; Joey, a graduate of Arizona State University; and Mikey, a student at Colorado State University.
Email: lcostello@gcea.coop
Mailing Address: 535 River Front Road, Gunnison, CO. 81230
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