Iola’s Take Charge! Challenge team gained some ground on its competition Thursday night after 60 people listened to USD 257 Superintendent of Schools Brian Pekarek lay out his vision for making Iola schools as energy efficient as possible.
The challenge, hosted by the Climate and Energy Project and the Kansas Energy Office, is a competition among 16 cities in four regions of the state to see which can do the most to save energy and promote energy efficiency. Each regional winner receives $100,000 to be used for a renewable energy or energy efficiency project. The competitors get…
Take Charge! Challenge gets the word out
