The chiller or cooling tower, the most ubiquitous symbol of Michigan City, Indiana. Taken with Holga 120 TLR. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Please mark your calendar now and plan on joining us for our next annual meeting on Friday, Sept. 28, and Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012 in Michigan City, Indiana. In addition to our business meeting, speakers and field trips will be offered.
Local Leagues and members are invited to submit program ideas and recommend individuals for officer positions.
Leaguers board the Trolley for a tour of the southeast side of Chicago (October, 2011)
Help Keep Pharmaceuticals Out of the Lake!
Properly dispose of your unused and unneeded drugs. The next National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, October 27, from 10 am – 2 pm. Find a drop-off location near you.
Registration Open for 2011 Annual Meeting
All League members and friends are invited to the Lake Michigan LWV Annual Meeting on Friday, October 21 and Saturday, October 22, 2011. It will be held at the Hilton Oak Lawn in Oak Lawn, Illinois. The hotel is conveniently located near I-294, southwest of Chicago.
Our annual business meeting is the reason for getting together, but we also have many educational activities and knowledgeable speakers planned. Please join us as we become better informed advocates for Lake Michigan.
- “Toxic to Treasures” Trolley Tour of the Lake Calumet area
- Todd Main, Deputy Director, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, will be our keynote speaker at dinner Friday night, speaking on Invasive Species and the Millennium Reserve System
- Discussion of How to be an Effective Advocate
- Debra Shore, Commissioner, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, will discuss sewer overflows in Cook County, IL
- Judy Beck, Lake Michigan Manager, US EPA, will report on the State of Lake Michigan
- Walking Tour of Beaubien Woods, beneficiary of Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding.
Even if you cannot attend all of these exciting events, please join us for those that work with your schedule! The registration form lists several meal plan options.
Additional information about the event is available on the 2011 Annual Meeting Materials page. The registration deadline is October 10, 2011. Registrants are responsible for their own hotel reservations.
Be inspired by our LMLWV members who attended Great Lakes Lobby Days this March in D.C. First of all, become informed at the Great Lakes Restoration website.
Near the bottom of the page, go to “Find a Project.” You will see an amazing amount of projects – some probably in your neighborhood. Your legislators in Washington, D.C., are possibly unaware that there are even projects going on in your district! Let them know! Feel free to educate them about the history of GLRI, such as, it was started in 2004 by President Bush. Hopefully, at least $300 million will be budgeted this year to continue the projects, and more in the future.
Our LMLW members who went were quite pleased to take the concerns we share with the Healing Our Waters Coalition regarding Lake Michigan’s issues to Congress:
*Support Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Funding
* Pass Great Lakes restoration legislation
* Ask the Army Corps of Engineers to expedite its study of the Chicago Waterway System in its Great Lakes-Mississippi River Interbasin Study (GLMRIS)
If you’d like to educate yourself to better educate your legislators, click on any of the links at the Healthy Lakes Healthy Lives website.
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