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wineries, live music, chef demonstrations,
food and merchandise vendors. Tickets and
more information at www.bellegrove.org.
Hosted by the Prince William Veterans
Farm Club, the Prince William County Fair
on Dumfries Road in Manassas from Aug.
12-20 will again feature " Fun4U "
competitions and low-cost admission on
several days. From a demolition derby to a
cute baby contest, there's everything you'd
expect at one of Virginia's largest county fairs.
Visit www.pwcfair.com or the fair's Facebook
page for updates.
The Rockingham County Fair from Aug.
15-20 continues to impress fair-goers as well
as the International Association of Fairs and
Expositions. This fair once again was named
the Top Agricultural Fair in its division in
2015. Whether it's livestock shows or topname
concert entertainment, exciting rides
or delicious fair food, the Rockingham
County Fair is a winner! 
Looking for sources on energy conservation? continued from pg. 10
the U.S., NCSU in Raleigh, North
Carolina, maintains the following site:
www.dsireusa.org. Pick and click the
state you want to see what is available.
Two more federal websites caught
my attention. The first, from the
Energy Information Agency
www.eia.gov/emeu/efficiency/energy_
savings.htm, is a page with a wide
range of links to sites with EC
information. It includes U.S. states,
foreign countries, and covers
residential, commercial, transportation
and other areas of energy saving.
If you want to know what they do
to save energy in New Zealand or
Iowa, check it out.
The second is www.usa.gov/green,
which is another mashup of links to
various information resources on
saving energy. Additionally, you can
explore other federal resources about
disaster preparedness, weather dangers,
and wildlife and animals.
Now it's time to put your state tax
dollars to work. Here are the URLs for
Virginia, Maryland and Delaware:
www.co-opliving.com
* www.virginiaenergysense.org/
at-home/energy-saving-tips/
* energy.maryland.gov/Pages/Facts/
energysavingtips.aspx
* delaware.gov/topics/energytips
Finally, Old Dominion Electric
Cooperative, a generation-andtransmission
cooperative serving 11
electric-distribution cooperatives in
Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, has put
together an excellent resource as well,
EnergizeEfficiently. You will find it here:
ee.odec.com.
Welcome to what the
internet excels in -
gathering information!
My search string on Bing
of energy-conservation
(EC) information returned
19,800,000 results.
So far my attention has been focused
on the internet. Realizing that not
everyone wants to surf the web to find
information, I offer the following for
your consideration. Start at your local
library. Enlist the support of a librarian
in locating books and publications about
energy efficiency. One of my favorite
magazines on this topic is Home Energy
Magazine. It can be on the technical side,
but is always informative.
Another good spot is your favorite
bookstore. Browse the shelves or get
some help in tracking down titles and
volumes that cover EC. I cheated a bit
and went to Amazon to see what they
had in the way of energy-efficiency
books (Amazon started by selling books,
after all). The results gave me 49 about
energy efficiency and 819 about
conservation.
So there you have a neat little
compendium of links and ideas on
where to get EC information. Thank you
for being interested in recycling, reusing
and reducing. If we all do a little it adds
up to a lot. 
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2016 SPECIAL EVENTS

http://www.bellegrove.org http://www.pwcfair.com http://www.virginiaenergysense.org/ http://www.dsireusa.org http://energy.maryland.gov/Pages/Facts/ http://www.delaware.gov/topics/energytips http://www.eia.gov/emeu/efficiency/energy_ http://ee.odec.com http://www.usa.gov/green http://www.co-opliving.com

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