By Robert Medley
Managing Editor
For the 87th year, Cimarron Electric Cooperative, based in Kingfisher, has an annual meeting with barbecue and music for the community.
Registration opens for the event 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14 at the Kingfisher County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building, 300 S. 13th Street in Kingfisher . There will be free barbecue, free gifts and free “fist bumps,” a flyer reads. There will even be live music. Dinner is 5 p.m. followed by a business meeting at 6:15 p.m. The prize drawing is after the meeting, and you must be present to win.
Cimarron Electric has been serving customers in Kingfisher and Canadian counties since 1936. The company serves nine total counties with 4,596 miles of line. Six of the 22 Cimarron Electric substations have been upgraded to handle the growth and demand in the eastern and central parts of the district.
“We continue to upgrade existing lines and have implemented the new building specs on new construction and rebuilt lines to provide better reliability to our members’ consumers,” according to a statement on the company’s website.
Cimarron Electric is currently working with Western Farmers Electric Cooperative to add an additional substation for the Cashion, Piedmont, Deer Creek and Edmond areas of Logan, Oklahoma, Kingfisher and Canadian counties to “make additional transmission grid upgrades to strengthen the lines in our existing substations,” the company reports.
New housing developments in the Cashion, Deer Creek and Piedmont school districts have increased the demand in recent years.
Company officials report ongoing priorities to strengthen communities.
“While focusing on member needs, cooperatives work for the sustainable development of their communities through policies accepted by their members,” the company reports on their website.
The Cimarron Electric service area covers Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Major and Oklahoma counties.
