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Lake Superior Day is Sunday, July 16, 2006

What's better than a July picnic on a sandy beach next to the world's
largest freshwater lake? A picnic and a Lake Superior celebration!

Churches and kids, individuals and families, communities and clubs,
businesses and industries, will be holding activities or events that
celebrate Lake Superior Day on the third Sunday in July (July 16 this year).

Can you do something that symbolizes your church's connection to the
lake on that day?

Lake Superior Day was started in the early 1990s as a way to highlight
the importance of this great water body to the environment and economy
of this basin.

Since then many events have been held to educate or entertain people
about lake issues, special places, and recreational opportunities.

The Lake Superior Binational Forum is promoting this basin-wide event
to highlight the spiritual, personal, environmental, and economic
connections people have to this unique world treasure.

Anyone is invited to hold activities or events that celebrate this
world-class lake. Churches, business, and groups around the lake are
already organizing special actions for July 16.

For example, many elected and tribal officials in Michigan, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, and Ontario are signing proclamations that designate the
third Sunday in July as Lake Superior Day.

Some cities or groups are holding special events such as dragon boat
races, beach clean ups, and special church services.

Last year almost 30 groups and communities participated in some way in
the first year of basin wide celebrations including churches that
offered special sermons, hymns, and prayers for water.

The Forum's website offers ideas about how to celebrate the day at:

http://www.superiorforum.info.

Click on "Current Projects."

For more information email:

lakesuperiorday@northland.edu or call 715-682-1223

The Lake Superior Binational Forum is a multi-sector stakeholder group
of Americans and Canadians volunteers who work together to provide
input to governments about these efforts and to educate basin residents
about ways to protect and restore the lake.

Members come from Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

The Forum is located in the United States at the Sigurd Olson
Environmental Institute at Northland College in Ashland, WI, and in Canada at
Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

The Forum is funded in the US by a grant from the US Environmental
Protection Agency's Great Lakes National Program Office and in Canada by
Environment Canada.

Thank you for your participation in this important event.

Lissa Radke
US Coordinator
Lake Superior Binational Forum
Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute at Northland College
Ashland WI 54806

WK: 715-682-1489

FAX 715-682-1218

www.superiorforum.info

"Water is life, and the quality of water determines the quality of life."
--Lake Superior Binational Forum vision statement