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Basin Electric, community organizations set to "Shave the Day" for children's cancer<br>$55,000 and growing for childhood cancer research and fellowships

Basin Electric Power Cooperative - March 11, 2010

WHAT: Official St. Baldrick's Foundation event - Basin Electric's third annual St. Baldrick's event. More than 140 volunteers are shaving their heads to raise money for childhood cancer research and fellowships.

WHEN: March 17, 2010 1:30 p.m. CDT - Official Basin Electric event.

WHERE: Basin Electric Headquarters, Boardroom (Tandem events will take place at respective facilities).

Tandem events:

Kick-off tandem event: Dry Fork Station, Gillette, Wyo. 12 p.m. MT (1 p.m. CDT), Monday, March 15
Antelope Valley Station, Beulah, ND - 1:30 p.m. MT (2:30 p.m. CDT), March 17
Great Plains Synfuels Plant, Beulah, ND - 1 p.m. MT (2 p.m. CDT), March 17
Laramie River Station, Wheatland, Wyo. - 1:45 p.m. MT (2:45 p.m. CDT), March 17

WHO: Basin Electric employees and other community members are participating in the event. Families of children honorees will also be attending. Teams from the following organizations are also participating:

MDU Resources Group
Bismarck State College
Century High School
Dakota United Soccer Club
University of Mary
KEM Electric
The Bismarck Tribune
NISC
Mahoney & Mahoney Attorneys, Center, N.D
Bismarck Bobcats (Note: the Bobcats will be shaving two heads live on center ice during their March 13 7:15 game.)

Gillette-area contractors:

Sargent & Lundy, LLC
Viking Sprinkler
Babcock & Wilcox Construction
Fagen, Inc
Hettinger Welding
Titan Contracting & Leasing
Triad
Westcon Industries
Ames Construction
Nooter Eriksen

Event emcees in Bismarck: Mike Eggl, Basin Electric senior vice president of External Relations and Communications, and Ted Cash, Basin Electric supervisor of media support. Ron Harper, Basin Electric CEO and general manager, will also be speaking. Kicking off the event will be an introduction of the children the event is honoring, followed by two honorees shaving their dads' heads. Also taking place is a live auction - highest bid earns shaving rights to a VIP's head.

Also of note: Basin Electric will be presenting a $15,000 check to the St. Baldrick's foundation. Glance Day Spa and Salon is providing stylists.

Background: In its first year, Basin Electric had originally hoped to get five brave people to shave their heads for the cause and raise $15,000. Instead, 109 people participated, raising $94,000. In the two events Basin Electric has hosted, more than 300 heads have been shaved, raising more than $243,000.
So far, employees and volunteer participants have raised more than $40,000; Basin Electric has pledged $15,000 toward the event above and beyond what has been raised - bringing that total to $55,000 and growing!

Basin Electric brought St. Baldrick's to North Dakota, making North Dakota the 48th state to participate in this cause. Today, St. Baldrick's has a presence in all 50 states.

St. Baldrick's is the world's largest volunteer-driven fundraising event for childhood cancer research. Each year, thousands of volunteers shave their heads in solidarity of children with cancer, while requesting donations of support from friends and family. Since its inception in 2000, St. Baldrick's has raised more than $75 million for the cause, shaved more than 135,000 heads in 25 countries and 50 states of the United States. Despite tremendous progress, cancer remains the #1 killer disease of children in the United States and Canada. The foundation's mission is to raise awareness and funds to cure kids' cancer by supporting cancer research and fellowships.

About Basin Electric Power Cooperative

Basin Electric is a consumer-owned, regional cooperative headquartered in Bismarck, N.D. It generates and transmits electricity to 135 member rural electric systems in nine states: Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. These member systems distribute electricity to about 2.8 million consumers.

Basin Electric's generating resources include: two coal-based power plants in North Dakota - the Antelope Valley Station, Beulah, and the Leland Olds Station, Stanton; a coal-based power plant in Wyoming - the Laramie River Station, Wheatland; three peaking stations - the Spirit Mound Station, Vermillion, S.D.; the Groton Generation Station Groton, S.D., and the Wisdom Unit 2 Station, Spencer, Iowa; nine combustion-turbine generators (natural gas) in the Gillette, Wyo., area; four wind turbines - two near Minot, N.D., and two near Chamberlain, S.D.; and 80 wind turbines near Minot, N.D. (2010).

Basin Electric is also the sole purchaser of electricity from sources operated by others including: six baseload waste-heat stations owned and operated by Ormat Technologies Inc. along the Northern Border Pipeline; the output of three wind farms owned and operated by NextEra Energy Resources, Juno Beach, Fla. (These wind farms are located near Wilton and Edgeley/Kulm, N.D.; the other is near Highmore, S.D.) Basin Electric has long-term, purchase power agreements of varying capacities from the George Neal Station Unit 4 (coal-based), Sioux City, Iowa, operated by MidAmerican Energy; the Walter Scott, Jr. Energy Center (coal-based) units 3 and 4, Council Bluffs, Iowa, operated by MidAmerican Energy; the Wisdom Station (coal based), Spencer, Iowa, operated by Corn Belt Power Cooperative; peaking stations located in Spencer, Estherville, Pocahontas, and Webster City, Iowa; the Duane Arnold Energy Center (nuclear), Cedar Rapids, Iowa, operated by NextEra Energy Resources; the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska; and three Iowa wind farms - near Superior/Lakota, operated by Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative; in Hancock County operated by NextEra Energy Resources and in Palo Alto County operated by Crosswind Energy, LLC.

For more information, go to www.basinelectric.com.

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Video stories from Basin Electric's 2008, 2009 and 2010 St. Baldrick's events:

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