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SUNNY OUTLOOK -- La Conner representatives and Skagit Valley Herald reporter Emma Fletcher-Frazer met with Silfab Solar officials Ted Ferguson (left) and Josh Williams (right) on a two-hour tour of the company's large Burlington plant Thursday morning. Mayor Marna Hanneman, resident Terry Nelson and Town Council member Mary Wohleb took part in the informational walk-through, which showed in detail the automated solar panel production process.
La Conner leaders saw a shining example of solar power's potential during a two-hour tour of a state-of-the-art production plant in Burlington Thursday morning.
Mayor Marna Hanneman, town councilor Mary Wohleb and resident Terry Nelson, who along with Wohleb is a founding member of the Skagit Valley Clean Energy Cooperative, met with Silfab Solar officials inside the firm's 220,000-square-foot automated facility where residential and commercial solar panels are manufactured for a growing market. It opened four years ago.
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