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• Shirley Grimes' Sold-Out Dylan Shows & Symphony Night

6/29/2016

Cr: Francesca Pfeffer

- Over the past month SHIRLEY GRIMES has had multiple shows that all rank as distinctive highlights for the artist. Taking quick breaks from her 2016 Lovesongs tour, Shirley performed on June 2 as feature vocalist with the Biel-Solothurn Symphony Orchestra, directed by Kaspar Zehnder, and then performed 3 sold-out shows singing the songs of and giving tribute to Bob Dylan.

Two additional shows are now planned with the Biel-Solothurn Symphony in August, and of her first show with them Shirley said "it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had."

Shirley returns to her Lovesongs tour on July 9, where she will appear at the Natural Sound Open Air festival in Bern, Switzerland with the Avalanche Quartet. Lovesongs is available at your favorite neighborhood digital download store.

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• Facebook & Grid Alternatives Solar for Menlo Park

6/9/2016

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- Broken Arrow was part of the first solar installation to take place under a new program sponsored by FACEBOOK and Bay area nonprofits MENLO SPARK and GRID ALTERNATIVES.

The collaboration will initially provide 10 low-income houses in Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood with solar electricity. It is estimated the program will save the families an estimated $250,000 over the next 25 years and prevent an estimated 550 tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

For the first house, a 4.2 kW system was installed using Sun Edison panels and Enphase micro-inverters. Grid Alternatives installed the system with additional cost assistance from the California Public Utilities Commission’s Single Family Affordable Homes Program. The installation will offset 41.23 tons of carbon, the equivalent of planting 969 trees, and will save the homeowner an estimated $20,000 over the system’s lifetime.

Facebook, which is headquartered in Menlo Park, is the town’s largest employer and sees the program as a way to improve its immediate neighborhood in the same way it is addressing it’s global corporate carbon footprint. Menlo Spark is a local nonprofit committed to a carbon free Menlo Park, and Oakland’s Grid Alternatives provides solar installations for low-income housing in 9 states as well as in Nicaragua.

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• Facebook & Grid Alternatives Solar for Menlo Park

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