Businesses and Individuals Can Get Free Energy Alerts Via Email; Certified Public Accountant Establishes CalifStageAlerts to Provide Daily Updates on California's Power Supply.Business/News Editors HEMET Hemet (hĕm`ĭt), city (1990 pop. 36,094), Riverside co., S Calif., in the San Jacinto valley; inc. 1910. Hemet and the surrounding area saw extensive growth in the 1970s and 80s, due to increased local agribusiness and the development of the , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2001 Californians who want the latest information about the status of the state's precarious power supply, can get it automatically every day by subscribing to a free email group called CalifStageAlerts. To subscribe, simply send an email to CalifStageAlerts-subscribe@egroups eGroups.com was an email list management web site. The site allowed users to create their own mailing lists and allowed others to sign up for membership on the list. The web site provided archives of the messages as well as list management functionality. .com or go to http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/califstagealerts/ to sign up on the Web. There is no charge to sign up or to be a member of the list. The list, which was established by Jim Counts, a Certified Public Accountant Certified Public Accountant (CPA) An accountant who has met certain standards, including experience, age, and licensing, and passed exams in a particular state. in Hemet, California Hemet is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 58,812 at the 2000 census. Each year, the city stages Ramona, formerly known as "The Ramona Pageant," the worlds largest outdoor play, based on Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona. , will automatically place a daily email into subscribers' e-mail boxes with brief news about the current energy supply and the likelihood of power outages This is a list of famous wide-scale power outages. 1965
Counts says he started the service to warn his accounting clients about possible power outages but later thought it would be good to expand the list. "It's a very scalable service and so I'm opening up the list to anyone, anywhere who would like to get daily updates on our power situation." He feels strongly that California's power crisis is a problem that individuals and businesses must pitch in to help solve. "Supply issues are a two-sided problem -- we obviously need to add more power to the grid and that is the task of government and the energy suppliers. At the same time, we also must drastically dras·tic adj. 1. Severe or radical in nature; extreme: the drastic measure of amputating the entire leg; drastic social change brought about by the French Revolution. 2. reduce our use of power and that is the job of businesses and everyday people. "My hope is that this daily e-mail alert will raise consciousness about the demand side of the equation and encourage subscribers to conserve while they're finding out about supply issues," he says. "The energy crisis is everyone's problem and everyone needs to be aware of the issue and pitch in to help where they can." James Counts II is a veteran Certified Public Accountant in public practice serving a range of businesses and individuals with their tax and accounting needs. His firm operates offices in Hemet and Temecula, California Temecula is a city in southwestern Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 57,716 at the 2000 census. The current population as of January 2007 has skyrocketed to 97,935. [1] It was incorporated on December 1, 1989. . Active in the profession, Counts is a member of the prestigious state Committee on Taxation of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. For more information, feel free to contact Counts at 909/929-1330 in Hemet, or at 909/676-1833 in Temecula, or via e-mail at cpa@pe.net. |
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