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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, January 14, 2010
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VOLUME 19, NO. 2 THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2010 COMPLIMENTARY
Mountain View Grand resort
Powered By The Wind and a Commitment To Excellence
by Brendan Smith
one of five companies in New
Weirs Times Editor
Hampshire, that uses renew-
able energy to meet all of their
WHITEFIELD - In 1905, Van Her- electricity needs. It has earned
bert Dodge and his wife, Al- recognition as a 100-percent
ice, installed electric lights Green Power Purchaser as part
in the Mountain View House. of the EPA’s Green Power Part-
Their once modest country inn, nership.
opened in 1866, was now a The Mountain View Grand
burgeoning resort com- began as the small farmhouse
p l e x a n d of Van Herbert’s
they need- parents, Mr.
ed to keep & Mrs. Wil-
u p w i t h liam Dodge
the times who, leg-
in attract- end has it,
ing visitors opened their
t o t h e i r d o o r s o n e
Whitefield, rainy, sum-
N.H. re- mer night in
sort. 1865 to two
T o d a y , wealthy stage-
the newly refurbished coach passen-
and renovated Mountain View gers left stranded in Whitefield
Grand Resort, which was shut- by a disabled coach. Upon wak-
tered and abandoned from ing the next morning they were
1986 to 1998, shines brightly mesmerized by the panoramic
again. And, in keeping up with view which incorporated the
these environmentally-con- Franconia Mountains, The
scious times, is powered 100 Green Mountains of Vermont,
-percent by wind power. Mount Washington and the
The newest addition to the Presidential Range. Word grew
Mountain View landscape is a and soon the Dodges enlarged
Northwind 100 Wind Turbine, their farmhouse to take in va-
built by Northern Power Sys- cationers.
tems of Barre, Vt., that towers “One of our goals here is to
121 feet over the Grand Resort bring back the heritage of the
and was put into operation this farm,” Diego said.
past October. Diego took over as Managing
“It supplies fifty percent of See reSort on 14
our electricity needs,” explains
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