Upcoming Events: ALL events are rain or shine ~
SATURDAY ~ September 17, 2011- Save Maumee’s 4th Annual Canoe Clean Up, Can YOU Clean Up?
11am- 4pm Free canoes for the day at Fort Wayne Outfitters Bike Depot with ID. Spend a fun day with family and friends on the river cleaning up and educating yourself! First come first serve Canoe Clean-Up Details HERE
SATURDAY ~ October 22nd, 2011- Save Maumee’s 3rd Annual Seed Harvest at Fox Island Nature Preserve
1pm – 4pm, Come pick seeds that we will plant on our riverbanks for Earth Day 2012 Seed Harvest Details HERE
Friday Sept. 30th and Saturday Oct. 1st. ~ Northeastern Indiana Sustainable Living Fair and Market held downtown Grabill, IN
Free attendance and if you would like to be a vendor or speaker please contact Julia Gorrell at juliagorrell@gmail.com or 260-418-0071
Friday Sept. 30th, Save Maumee’s Founder will be speaking~exact time will be updated the website here!
Other Recent Events:
**Save Maumee Grassroots Org. appreciates the recreational fun on the St. Joseph and St. Marys thanks to Friends of the River! In 2011 Three Rivers Festival had its first local river event since I attended Northrop High School. Progress is being made and there are truly reasons to celebrate. Let us reflect on ways to truly improve our local Three Rivers to benefit all citizens in Fort Wayne.
Save Maumee Grassroots Organization’s 2nd Annual Berlin Music Pub Benefit Show ~ Was VERY FUN! Thank you to all the dedicated people who made this day possible!
Presented by BMP Pro & TME
The SumMorz – 10pm
Taylor Fredricks – 8:30pm
To The Point – 7pm
Azraels Revenge – 5:30pm
Selenium – 4pm
Corey Rhymez – 12:30am
11M12D – 12am
Twisted Aversion V1.0 – 1am
The 6 Foot Maniac
Count Grootmaniac – 1:30-2am
WHAT ELSE: Featured Pudding Wrestling, Live Music All Day Long, Games, Prizes, Drawings, An Evening Cookout, Acoustic Performances Throughout The Day! It was interesting that I received an email that said it was vulgar and sexist that we were having pudding wrestling….well, just so you know the only people that got splatted with pudding was Save Maumee’s own Ryan Bailey and Abigail Frost-King! If you missed it…you really missed it! HA HA!
*Fort Wayne Local Bands Come Together For A Great Cause & To Give Back To Its City, With A Mix Of Rock, Metal, HipHop, Alternative, Punk, Acoustic, & Cover Tunes ALL DAY LONG!
THURSDAY – September 15th, 2011 at 5:30pm ~ IDEM (Indiana Dept. of Environmental Management) held a public meeting to discuss air permitting for Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) All statements will be considered to make a decision whether to issue or deny the permit. IF you would like to make a comment it NEEDS to be postmarked before Monday night at midnight or email Doug Wagner before midnight at dwagner@idem.in.gov or call him at 317-233-2629
***Concerns from citizens have risen due to Steel Dynamics Inc. applying for air quality permits for its new copper rod production facility in New Haven that will create 35 jobs. Remember: What goes up into the air, must come down…into our waterways and land. Based on equipment capacity, IDEM permit will allow this one plant to release; 71,703 tons of greenhouse gases, 88 tons of particulate matter, 68 tons of volatile organic chemicals, 66 tons of nitric oxides, 23 tons of sulfur oxides, 9 tons of hydrochloric acid, and nearly 4 tons of formaldehyde and 1.2 tons of hexane. So COME TO THE MEETING (above) (Journal Gazette, “SDI joint venture applies for air permit”)
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, “Copper plant plans gathering opposition”
EPA-Steel Dynamics on clean-air violations
https://blog.savemaumee.org/category/chemicals-in-your-water/
Full Draft Permit – 143pgs.
~ Save Maumee’s 6th Annual Earth Day 2011 was a GREAT SUCCESS! ~ CLICK HERE FOR OUR FUNNY VIDEO!
OR CLICK HERE TO SEE THE STATS FROM EARTH DAY 2011
Watch our Earth Day Video from 2010!
Thank you for your continued support ~ Help us to speak for your rivers!
Sincerely,
Abigail Frost-King
Save Maumee Grassroots Organization Founder
Watershed Expert
Indiana Master Naturalist
Save Maumee is a 100% citizen driven, volunteer, environmental restoration group that works to improve the Maumee River in Fort Wayne through work and awareness raising; To have a positive impact on the 24 million people who depend on clean water downstream…We all live downstream!
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