Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative has received a Platinum Safety Partner award from Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Safety and serving its members with reliable electric service are top priorities for Bluebonnet. Texas Mutual is a workers’ compensation company, and the award recognizes its policyholders that practice top-quality workplace safety. Only 200 of Texas Mutual’s more than 74,000 policyholders are recognized with the distinction annually. The award is given to those that excel at protecting workers and providing safety resources.
Portables can be helpful in a power outage, but users should practice caution
Portable generators may be a godsend during a prolonged electrical outage, but they can be dangerous and owners should be extremely careful while operating one. A portable generator typically runs on gasoline, although some use diesel or propane. Portables are by far the most frequently used type of generator, and can cost from about $400 up to $2,500. Many are purchased at large home-improvement stores.
All across the Bluebonnet service area are remarkable examples of partnerships with our best friends
Stories by Clayton Stromberger -- Photos by Sarah Beal
Many millennia ago, somewhere in Asia, a gray wolf — hungry, curious, wary — cautiously inched its way toward a human campfire. Eye contact was made, perhaps a scrap of food was tossed over. In an ancient world where survival was elemental, a new partnership was forged.
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative members recently reported an increase in attempted phone scams by people claiming to represent Bluebonnet. The fraudulent callers have told co-op members that their power will be disconnected within 30 minutes unless they make an immediate payment over the phone.
Projects of all sizes crisscrossing the Bluebonnet service area are planned in the coming years to smooth the flow of traffic
Story by Melissa Segrest l Photos by Kelly West
POP QUIZ. Which is worse?
A: Being trapped in traffic, creeping ever so slowly, because the road you’re on wasn’t built to handle the weekday rush-hour crush.
B: Being trapped in traffic, still creeping slowly, because the road you’re on is under construction for a few years so that overpasses, lanes, wider shoulders and medians can be added.
Solar power, battery storage and EVs were the talk of the day
By Sidni Carruthers
The morning started off overcast and chilly, but that did not deter almost 100 Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative members from attending the co-op’s 2022 Energy Expo on Oct. 22. It was Bluebonnet’s seventh renewable energy event for members.
Commuting subsided during the pandemic, but many Bluebonnet-area drivers have returned to the weekday trek. Some of them never stopped.
Sharon Jayson l Photos by Laura Skelding
Rick Gaskamp is a Brenham native who loves his hometown so much that rather than move, he's spent the past 21 years as a weekday commuter to Houston. He's got 414,000 miles on his 2013 black pickup, which is just the latest in a series of trucks and vans he's driven to and from work most weekdays.
It’s time to dust off grandmother’s old box of recipes and whip up the family’s favorite traditional dish for Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s. But before you start, share that recipe with all of your Bluebonnet friends and family!
Submit your family’s most beloved holiday recipe to sidni.carruthers@bluebonnet.coop or look for requests on our social media posts. We’ll post them on our website at bluebonnet.coop/holiday-recipes. Want to start early? The first recipe is there, for Mimi Delk’s Divine Divinity.
Christmas parades, events and dazzling displays will light up Bluebonnet area nights. Help us spread the good cheer.
By Sidni Carruthers
Share the holiday magic with us
There's a lot to love about the Christmas season in the Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative service area. Start marking your calendar with can’t-miss seasonal spectacles.
This October marks a decade since Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative began working to recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the communities it serves.
To bring attention to the cause, Bluebonnet has illuminated its five member service centers in pink, field crews have put on pink hard hats, service trucks have sported pink ribbon decals and employees have been wearing pink shirts on select days.