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Show City gets energy grant Utilization Network and the Utah Community Progress Steering Committee. The criteria lor grant awards included a community's demonstration demon-stration of widespread public support and a willingness to develop, carry out and maintain local control over individual in-dividual community cnergv programs. The Utah Energy Office Of-fice recently announced the award of a $15,000 Community Energy Grant to Cedar City. According to City Manager Joe Melling, the grant was one of four awarded to communities throughout Utah. The grant will be used to help Cedar City residents learn about and design energy conservation projects for their homes. The project coordinatorsRay coor-dinatorsRay Gardner of the Gardner Partnership, Part-nership, Architects, and Dave Peterson, attorney publication of a City Energy Handbook, with information about Cedar City's solar characteristics and climate and instructions lor making energy calculations. According to Melling, the program will get under way the first part of August and will continue con-tinue through the end of the year. He encourages Cedar City residents to take advantage of the program by contacting the project coordinators through the City offices. Grant selections were made by the Utah Energy Office, the Department of Community and Economic Development, the League of Cities and Towns, Western Solar and legal specialist-have specialist-have outlined several programs. These include a free walk-in consulting service ser-vice to help residents design projects such as add-on greenhouses and solar hot water heaters. Gardner and Peterson will make a computer available to assist the residents with energy calculations, solar collector sizing and payback analysis. Also available at the center will be various books, pamphlets and magazines dealing with do-it-yourself energy projects. In addition, the grant will help finance workshops on solar heating and the |