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5/13 Green Visions: Proctor's Propane Buses

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published May 13, 2015 at 11:28 AM CDT

The liquid propane-powered buses of the Proctor School District are really something.

Ask School Superintendent John Engelking.

They're more fuel-efficient and get better gas mileage (.35 per mile compared with .65-$1.25 for diesel), they're cheaper to operate (7 qts. of oil/$5 filter compared to 30 qts. of oil and a $35 filter for diesel) and they've got an unexpected benefit that may have parents running to get their gas-powered vehicles converted.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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