Forum: Could it Happen Here?

Forum  Friday, June 8, 2001, 7:00 p.m. Pyle Adult Center

California, the richest state in the richest nation in the history of
the human race, has now reached a point in which its citizens cannot
take the continuous availability of unlimited amounts of electrical
power for granted, arguably the birthright of every resident of the
United States. Occasional outages of electrical power are to be expected
-- a truck knocks down a pole, a bolt of lightning hits a transformer,
Godzilla wrecks a power plant -- but rolling blackouts because you just
can't generate enough electrical power to meet demand? If, ten years
ago, you had predicted this state of affairs, medication would have been prescribed.

This month's Forum speaker will be a representative of Salt River
Project, who will present a brand new program entitled "California
Issues." The presentation will discuss what happened in California,
where competition and deregulation are in Arizona, and what Salt River
Project is doing to meet power generation needs for the coming months.

Please join us for a fascinating and timely presentation at the Monthly
Forum, Friday, June 8, 2001 at 7:00 p.m. at the Pyle Adult Recreation
Center in Tempe. Come to the southwest corner of Rural and Southern, and
turn south into the parking lot. Then join us afterwards at the Uptown
Brewery just a few blocks away for the Post-Forum Debriefing.