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Article: GIFT OF WIND ENERGY TO LIGHT UP ECUADORAN VILLAGE.(Religion/Spotlight)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- February 21, 1998
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Byline: Jean Torkelson
The small Ecuadoran village of La Compagnia thought it had seen the last of Byron Stafford in July, but it was wrong.
Last Tuesday, the 41-year-old Denver-based missionary returned to the modest dot on the map bearing a gift - the village's first wind turbine.
The gift means nothing less than that electricity will finally arrive in a village still lit by candles and kerosene.
Indeed, La Compagnia is so small there's only one way to get there: ``North on the Panamanian Highway,'' Stafford advises, ``and turn right at the equator.''
He's not kidding. The monument marking the equator also points the way to ...