was the Home Supervisor for SaskPower, providing information to people with electricity in their homes for the first time. Beginning in 1956, she travelled across the province conducting cooking schools, demonstrating the new electric and gas appliances and appearing on radio and television. Lillian McConnell was the original Penny Powers, although there were as many as four Penny Powers representing the corporation during the busy fair season. - HiLines, February 1964 and Sept./Oct. 1959