[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 12097]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               TRIBUTE TO GREENFIELD MUNICIPAL UTILITIES

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                            HON. DAVID YOUNG

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 21, 2015

  Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and 
congratulate a great Iowa institution, Greenfield Municipal Utilities. 
On June 12, 2015, Greenfield Municipal Utilities celebrated 125 years 
of business.
  A short ten years after Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, a 
group of Greenfield city councilmen and businessmen began planning a 
municipal light plant to provide the town with electricity. In the fall 
of 1890, their idea became a reality when Greenfield was one of the 
first towns in Iowa to have a plant. Members of the Board of Trustees 
today include Lynne Don Carlos, Terry Schneider, and Bob Guikema.
  I applaud and congratulate the Greenfield Municipal Utilities for 
their 125 years in Iowa's Third Congressional District. I am proud to 
represent them in the United States Congress. I know that my colleagues 
will join me in congratulating and wishing the Board of Trustees and 
their employees nothing but success in the future.

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