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"River
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Publication of CURE - Winter 2005 Issue |
| CURE
Meets its Match! We did it! Thanks to over $3,000 in
year-end donations by more than 70 individuals, CURE
successfully met the challenge grant issued by the
McKnight Foundation to boost individual contributions to
our organization. Thanks to your generosity, CURE will
receive an additional $5,000 grant from the McKnight
Foundation to support our work for the coming year.
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Patrick
J. Moore - CURE's New Director of Development
- Hello Everyone. Allow me to introduce myself as
the new Director of Development here at CURE. Some of
you may remember me as the organizer from the Land
Stewardship Project who helped get CURE started 14 years
ago. Some of you may know me as the proprietor of the
Java River Café in Montevideo. It is my hope that now
you will come to know me as CURE's FUNdraiser. I am very
excited about the opportunity to work with the CURE
Board and membership to help marshal resources toward
the cause for a Cleaner Minnesota River.
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article.........
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Status
of the Conservation Security Program
- The Conservation Security Program (CSP) has finally
arrived in the upper Minnesota River Watershed. Five
Minnesota watersheds were selected for the second
sign-up by the Washington, D.C. NRCS (Natural Resources
Conservation Service). These include watershed of the
Root, Sauk, Red Eye, Red Lake and Redwood Rivers.
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| In
Memoriam: The Challenge of Paul Homme's Legacy:
CURE would like to note the passing of Paul Homme, a
great advocate for the environment, who suffered a fatal
heart attack on October 6, 2004 at his farm near Granite
Falls. He was 74. Paul and his spouse Ginger have long
been advocates for the Minnesota River. In the early
1980's they helped launch MNFAIR (Minnesota Future
Agriculture Interest Recognized) to protect the Upper
Minnesota River Valley from the storage of nuclear waste
and the burning of PCB's.
CURE
considers it a great honor that when MNFAIR decided to
disband this past year, they sent our organization a
check for $1,000 so we could continue our work as River
Advocates. We will continue to stand up and speak
for the environment as you did Paul - even when it ay e
the unpopular thing to do. We will continue
to use the latest scientific information to inform our
advocacy as you did Paul - by forming ongoing and vital
relationships with those who study, observe and research
land use and water quality in our watershed. We will
continue to walk the talk, as you did, Paul - by
seeking life ways that minimize our impact on the
environment and by keeping ourselves grounded in the
natural and human community all around us. We will
continue to apply the wisdom of what we know and
have learned to the formation of public policy, as you
did, Paul - when you helped lay the foundation for the
Conservation Security Program as a member of the Land
Stewardship Project's Federal Farm Policy
committee. We will continue to carry out
this work joyfully, as you did Paul.
You were
always quick to laugh and share a joke., You always had
a twinkle in your eye.
Paul
Homme |
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Corps
Reconnaissance Study Status - The St. Paul Corps
District is re-submitting its Reconnaissance Study
Report to their Division Headquarters after
incorporating some minor Division comments.
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article......... |
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