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Sustainability

5th Annual Bioenergy Day

KAXE | By Heidi Holtan,
John Latimer
Published October 17, 2017 at 11:17 AM CDT
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National Bioenergy Day

The 5th Annual Bioenergy Day will be held on Wednesday October 18 starting at 9am.  The day will include tours of area organizations that using bioenergy including:

  • Lonza -  Learn about using wood fires as a fuel through an air aspiration fuel recovery system that uses wood biomass boiler.
  • Minnesota Power's Rapids Energy Center - See how local wood biomass is turned into clean renewable energy.  Rapids Energy Center is a cogeneration facility that provides the Blandin Paper Mill with all its steam requirements.
  • Itasca Woody Biomass Project - Hear how biomass plays an important role in forest management, local jobs and community stability.

John Latimer and Heidi Holtan spoke ICC provost Bart Johnson about Bioenergy and Bioenergy Day
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Heidi Holtan
Heidi Holtan is KAXE's Director of Content and Public Affairs where she manages producers and is the local host of Morning Edition from NPR. Heidi is a regional correspondent for WDSE/WRPT's Duluth Public Television’s Almanac North.
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John Latimer
As a mail carrier in rural Grand Rapids, Minn., for 35 years, John Latimer put his own stamp on a career that delivered more than letters. Indeed, while driving the hundred-mile round-trip daily route, he passed the time by observing and recording seasonal changes in nature, learning everything he could about the area’s weather, plants and animals, and becoming the go-to guy who could answer customers’ questions about what they were seeing in the environment.
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