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Ramsey - Washington Metro <br />November 15, 2002 <br />Joel Hanson <br />City of Little Canada <br />515 Little Canada Road <br />Little Canada, MN 55117 <br />Dear Mr. Hanson, <br />District <br />1902 East County Road 8 <br />Maplewood, MN 55109 <br />(651)704-2089 <br />fax: (651)704 -2092 <br />email: office @rvvmwd.org <br />This letter is a request for City of Little Canada support for WaterFest 2003. We are proposing <br />that each City participate at the $500 level. By financially sponsoring WaterFest 2003 and <br />sending key city staff and community leaders to observe or assist, your City will be able to claim <br />an accomplishment under the NPDES Phase II Permit education requirements. Make sure you <br />note that in your Permit implementation plan <br />This year WaterFest will be held at Lake Phalen for the second year in a row. We realize that it <br />may be too far away to capture the interest of many of your residents, but we invite you to <br />consider identifying key City staff and community leaders, including teachers, environmental <br />commissioners and Chamber of Commerce members, to encourage attending WaterFest. The <br />purpose of their attendance would be to see how the event and perhaps gain some ideas for <br />enhancing existing community environmental events. <br />Schools, Lions Clubs, businesses and environmental educators from across the metro area have <br />eagerly attended WaterFest in past years because of the large public audience attending. We are <br />well over 1000 in attendance for the 5 -hour event, some estimates for 2002 reached 1200 <br />including volunteers and workers. <br />As other cities and watershed districts have asked for advice on producing such an event, my best <br />advice has been to attend at least once and help out before or during one WaterFest. Hands -on <br />experience is far better than advice. Besides, every city has unique physical and human resources <br />on which to draw, unique interests, and unique budgets. <br />Enclosed please find a brochure on WaterFest 2002. I will attach to an email a Power Point Slide <br />Show on WaterFest 2003, to assist you in your presentation to others helping decide about <br />WaterFest support. <br />Thank you for considering support of WaterFest 2003. <br />Sincerel <br />Louise Watson <br />District Planning and Education Coordinator <br />2 <br />