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Remembering great columnist Ernie Pyle
By Bill Knight
Annually, National Columnists Day is April 18, which is also National Animal Crackers Day (appropriate, some might say) and National Lineman Appreciation Day (which I love, as the son of a power-company lineman).
Columnists decided on that date to honor Ernie Pyle, and this year I spent some of that day re-reading a Pyle essay I wrote for the encyclopedia “Forties in America” 10 years ago. With the Greatest Generation fading with time, Pyle’s story is worth re-telling, if in abbreviated form. After all, few recall even ideal members of the vocation.
(New York newspaperman and satirist Stanley Walker once wrote, “What makes a good newspaperman? The answer is easy. He knows everything. He is aware not only of what goes on in the world today, but his brain is a repository of the accumulated wisdom of the ages. He is not only handsome, but he has the physical strength which enables him to perform great feats of energy. He
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Did you know Sunday is National Lineman Appreciation Day? It’s one of the most dangerous jobs yet 115,000 men and women in America go to work every day to make sure our electricity stays on.
We decided to thank some of our local linemen with Idaho Falls Power. With several recent wind storms and new projects, these guys have been busy!
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PEC deserves a nod on National Lineman Appreciation Day PEC crews were on the roads in dangerous conditions at all hours of the day during the February 2021 winter storm. They often did not know what the problem was trees on lines, downed poles, or broken conductors until they arrived. Photo courtesy of PEC
Highland Lakes residents might have been shivering in their homes without power during the big February freeze, but Pedernales Electric Cooperative linemen were climbing poles in single-digit temperatures during snow and ice storms to turn the heat back on.