Holiday City village council is exploring backup electrical systems

The Holiday City village council is exploring backup electrical systems to avoid power outages like the one that affected the Menards distribution center at the end of April. Holiday City Village Administrator Gary Baker said at Thursday’s village council meeting that the 48-hour outage was caused by an overnight wind storm which knocked down five distribution power poles. Workers were able to engineer an existing power line from Pioneer to Holiday City to provide power to Menards. The village of Pioneer continued to provide that service for almost two weeks until the Holiday City service was restored. Baker said that this was the first outage to Menards in 10 years of operation.