Sid Sperry, president and CEO of SIDI Technologies of Guthrie, was the featured speaker of the Kingfi sher Rotary Club last Tuesday. Sperry, pictured second from right, developed an algorithm process that uses variables and known factors to accurately predict ice impact forecasting. The software program is used nationally by electrical utility companies across the nation to aid in anticipation of utility outages to help prepare for ice disasters. He said his company is currently preparing to implement an algorithm software program to do the same with wildfi res. Pictured with Sperry are, from left, Kingfi sher Rotary President Jon Benham and Cimarron Electric employees Stephanie Jones and Mark Andrews, who arranged for the presentation. Sperry was raised in Gage in the Oklahoma panhandle, and has worked and managed with and for Oklahoma electric cooperatives his entire career before retiring and forming SIDI Technologies. He also is a liaison to the National Rural Electric Cooperatives of America, Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. [KT&FP Staff Photo]