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March RIVERVOICE
     
Upcoming Events

When: Saturday, April 23, 10 AM to 3 PM
Where: West Central Research and Outreach Center, Morris, MN


When: Saturday, June 11, 10 AM to 5 PM
Where: Minnesota River (Skalbekken County Park to Vicksburg County Park)
  

The CURE Board of Directors has chosen Brian Wojtalewicz of Appleton, Minnesota, as this year's RiverKeeper. CURE invites our members on Saturday, April 23, 2016 for a day of popular education, grassroots action, business, and celebration at CURE's 24th Annual Membership Meeting. The theme for the day is Act on Minnesota Water, and our RiverKeeper recipient and the topic of the afternoon's roundtable conversation will be in keeping with that theme.

First awarded in 1994, the RiverKeeper goes to an individual(s), organization or government agency who has worked in an exemplary manner to carry out CURE's mission "to focus public awareness on the Minnesota River Basin and to take action to restore and protect its water quality, biological integrity, and natural beauty for all generations".
Water Program
  
Graphics created by Audrey Arner. Graphic facilitation from the Renville meeting is on the left, and the graphic facilitation from the Northfield meeting is on the right.
In recent weeks, CURE and LSP organized two meetings designed to answer Governor Dayton's call; to begin to engage community members around a conversation to draft a community-based Minnesota Water Ethic Charter.  The meetings were held in Renville and Northfield.

In response to Governor Dayton's call to establish a water ethic and through these meetings, we hope to begin the co-creation of a new, community-based set of beliefs that will guide our state's water practices that are truly rooted in the wisdom, values and experience of those alertly living in, working on and caring for our land and water.
  

Over two dozen CURE members joined and supported the MNi Sota Nibi Walk from the headwaters at Big Stone Lake in Ortonville to the confluence at Fort Snelling on Pike Island. The 330 mile walk began on March 25th and concluded on Friday, April 1st. Water was taken from the headwaters and carried the entire length of the river in a copper vessel, and when the walkers reach the end of the walk, the water is poured back in to the river. In essence, it is a way for the river to know what the water was like when it started at the headwaters, and how it is now at the end of the river.

Special thanks to the following CURE members: Robin Moore, Michelle Thelen, Audrey Arner, Richard Handeen, Kylene Olson, Mike Jacobs, Malena Handeen, Misty Neyens, Alice Menge, Don Robertson, Teresa, Hunter and Walker Peterson, Autumn Cavender-Wilson, Scott and Dacian DeMuth, Scott Tedrick, Carrie Jennings, Steve, Reena, Jesse and Leena Petrich, Sarah Wolbert and Gary Lentz for joining the Nibi Walk.
Climate Program
Energy Program

"Region's clean energy getting 'greener," by Tom Cherveny, West Central Tribune
"Willmar's wind turbines have best year ever," by Shelby Lindrud, West Central Tribune.


"Clean energy is about keeping people healthy," by By Bruce Snyder and Teddie Potter, MinnPost.
Events and Adventures

CURE invites our members on Saturday, April 23, 2016 for a day of popular education, grassroots action, business, and celebration at CURE's 24th Annual Membership Meeting at the West Central Research and Outreach Center in Morris, MN. The theme for the day is Act on Minnesota Water, and our RiverKeeper recipient and the topic of the afternoon's roundtable conversation will be in keeping with that theme. 


Preregistration is required for the annual meeting. Please register by 5 PM, Wednesday, April 20th.



This week-long course will be taught at Lac qui Parle State Park by multiple instructors and with access to the outdoors, it will provide participants the opportunity to immediately connect with relevant examples of content presented. The course starts on Monday, June 13 and ends on Friday, June 17th, 2016.
 

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