Thank you for those of you who made it to one or both of these past two meetings, and for those of you who were with us in spirit. Our last two meetings were greatly productive, and we have a lot to do before the big meeting on March 14th.
March 1's meeting we discussed general meeting format, met everyone again
(briefly), and made announcements.
1. We will hold meetings at the Town Hall each Thursday (including next
week) at 6:30pm.
2. We have a new road map with the latest plans, read and understood by a
few members who can help explain the details.
3. OUR BLOG ADDRESS: www.savelakesuperiortrail.blogspot.com
OUR EMAIL: savelakesuperiortrail@hotmail.com
OUR PHONE: 715-546-3388
Our blog has updates on events, editorials, and information regarding this
project.
Last night we came back with our findings from research and actions, and we discussed our actions for this week, before the big meeting MARCH 14th (the town board has called an informational meeting with the Forest Service and the project engineer to answer questions). The meeting will be Wednesday March 14th at 5pm at the Three Lakes Town Hall. Here are the actions we MUST TAKE before that meeting:
SIGNS: (We have made car signs and lawn signs, come pick some up and hand them out! We need this to be PUBLIC) The signs have our blog address, our phone number and email.
PETITIONS: We have about 300 signatures so far. We need more! Our goal
is 1,000. You can download a copy at our blog and print some out.
TREE FLAGGING: We have been marking all the trees that are to be removed along Military Road. There are so many! So come on down and take a look. We want to flag ALL of them, because it really shows what the plan is for the contractors. Would you be available tomorrow (Saturday) between 10 and Noon? We have a crew going out. If not then, we can arrange it any
time if you're interested. We will be going out hopefully every day for an hour or so.
LETTERS TO ABSENTEE LANDLORDS: In three lakes, there are 8,000 residents. Only 2000 are year round, the rest come in the summer. We are trying to notify the other 6,000 because they are the LARGE majority of the citizens here, and they don't know ANYTHING about this plan. We sent out a bunch of letters last week, and yesterday we got a hundred
signatures in the mail.
Today, Karen Cottignham, myself, Evan, and Ken will be stuffing more envelopes. We want to send out as many as possible. They can fax in the petition to the town board at this time (we want the town board to get these signatures by March 14th meeting.) Then they can send in the hard copy to us. Of course, we'll still be sending these letters afterwards because this project won't start until May, so we have some time to reach all 6,000 of them.
GET PEOPLE TO THE MARCH 14th MEETING: Please come, and bring as many
people with you as possible! It is crucial to make a huge impact on the board.
MEDIA: We must alert the media to get as much coverage as possible. As we finish the tree flagging, we want to hold a press conference in front of any section so that people can see the huge trees that are coming down. We want channels 12 and 7 out there for the meeting on March 14th, and we need newspaper and radio announcements for these meetings.
CAMCORDER FOR MEETING: Do you or someone you know have a camcorder so that we can record the meeting on March 14th from beginning to end?
Let us know what your thoughts are, and if you have any suggestions. The last points of the meeting were bringing up as many questions and comments as we could come up with to bring to the March 14th meeting. We will type them all up, and then everyone will have a copy of them. will be typing up and sending that out in the next few days so that anyone can add to it.
This way, pretty much all of us have a chance to ask a question. When they begin the meeting and ask if there are any questions, fifty hands will go up at once.
Best,
Leah
Partnership to Save Military Road
www.savelakesuperiortrail.blogspot.com
savelakesuperiortrail@hotmail.com
715 - 546 - 3388
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