23 homes on the Navajo Nation finally getting electricity

TONALEA, Ariz. (AP) — Tribal President Jonathan Nez has finalized a subgrant statement betwixt the Navajo Nation and Navajo Tribal Utility Authority to widen powerfulness lines to homes successful the assemblage of Tonalea, providing long-awaited energy to astatine slightest 23 families. Several Tonalea residents scheduled to person energy attended Saturday’s signing of the statement for the 23 homes that are located successful the erstwhile Bennett Freeze area. Selena Slim said she has lived successful Tonalea her full beingness without energy and spends $75 connected a regular ground to acquisition gasoline for her generator to supply electrical powerfulness for her home. The tribe’s preservation is the country’s largest astatine 27,000 quadrate miles (70,000 quadrate kilometers) and it covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.