Chena’s husband Gary was re-elected to the Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA) Board of Directors June 2018. GVEA is the regional electric co-op for much of Interior Alaska. It was a close election, winning by just 5 votes. His opponent Frank Eagle, co-owner of Lavelle’s Bistro, ran a negative, falsehood filled campaign in the Trump mold. Sad and it reflects badly on Frank’s character. Regardless, a win is a win and Gary will now serve his second 3 year term. Niilo would be proud as Gary works hard to promote the meaning of a cooperative, member engagement, and transparency along with other board duties. <\/p>\n
Update: re-elected again in 2021 with a much wider margin, Gary focused on what was good for our members while the opponent’s supporters were mostly Republicans trying to make it a partisan election. Of interest, Gary’s opponent in 2018 supported Gary.<\/p>\n
You can read more about GVEA activities through Gary’s eyes at gvea.chena.org<\/a> and his Facebook page Newman.for.GVEA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chena’s husband Gary was re-elected to the Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA) Board of Directors June 2018. GVEA is the regional electric co-op for much of Interior Alaska. It was a close election, winning by just 5 votes. His opponent Frank Eagle, co-owner of Lavelle’s Bistro, ran a negative, falsehood filled campaign in the Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}