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  • Oregon community develops wind farm without corporate help

    KERI BRENNER The Dalles Chronicle WASCO, Ore. (AP)

    Ormand Hilderbrand says he "now knows the real meaning of going for broke'" after spending five years working to launch Oregon's first small, independently developed wind farm. "You have to have a vision, and you have to stick to it," said Hilderbrand, 59, an entrepreneur whose family has farmed dryland wheat in the mid- Columbia region east of the town of Wasco since the 1860s. "If you have the least bit of doubt, you won't get it done." Construction started in June on the first of six wind turbines at Hilderbrand's 9 megawa... Full story