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Hawkins Point Visitors Center Announces Expanded Summer Hours Contact: May 26, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MASSENA —The admission-free Hawkins Point Visitors Center at the New York Power Authority’s St. Lawrence-Franklin D. Roosevelt Power Project will begin operating with expanded summer hours on Saturday, May 27. The visitors center will be open seven days a week until Columbus Day from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.The $5 million center features a wide array of interactive exhibits on the St. Lawrence project, waterpower, basics and uses of electricity and various other subjects. Visitors can also enjoy panoramic views of the project’s power dam from Hawkins Point. DIRECTIONS: From Massena: Take State Route 37 east to Route 131 (across from St. Lawrence Centre Mall), turn left and proceed through the Eisenhower Lock tunnel. Then take the second right onto Robinson Bay Road and continue for two miles. Turn left onto Hawkins Point Road and follow the entrance road to the visitors center. About NYPA: ■ NYPA uses no tax money or state credit. It finances its operations through the sale of bonds and revenues earned in large part through sales of electricity. ■ NYPA is a leader in promoting energy-efficiency, new energy technologies and electric transportation initiatives. ■ It is the nation’s largest state-owned electric utility, with 18 generating facilities in various parts of the state and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines.
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