From: "Lisa Goodman" <goodman@wisconsinrivers.org>
Subject: You are invited to participate in the 2005 Wisconsin Groundwater Festival
Local Groups friends, here is an opportunity to for your organization.
Please feel free to share with others who may be interested.
Hello all,
I have great news...the 3rd Annual WI Groundwater Festival is a go!!
The festival will be a one-day event on Friday, April 15, 2005 from
9am-3:30pm at the Eau Claire County Expo Center.
Jean Schomisch, Land Conservationist with Eau Claire County,
has agreed to be the local coordinator and Rory Olson, Chippewa Falls Water Utility,
has agreed to be Jean's "3rd & 4th hands". I would like to extend a BIG THANK YOU to
Jean and Rory for stepping forward and allowing this marvelous event to
move forward!
Now these two cannot plan this event alone. They need the help of a
planning committee and other volunteers. Now is the time for YOU to let
me and/or Jean know if you would like to be on the planning committee or
help the day of, if you haven't already done so. (See list below.)
Duties for the Planning Committee include participating in regularly
scheduled meetings-in person, teleconference, and/or email (once every
month or two), helping to make decisions, carrying out assigned tasks
(you express an area or areas of interest and work on tasks in that
area), and helping to fundraise.
Jean will be scheduling our first planning team meeting soon. This will
be an in-person meeting, so we can meet everyone and get off to a good
start. A lot is usually accomplished at the first meeting, so it's one
of the most important ones. Possible topics for the meeting include:
Theme: What should the festival theme be?
4th Track Lesson ideas: What are local groundwater issues and concerns
that we can address in a hands-on activity?
Entertainment: Who should we have perform for the students during the
closing session? This entertainer should include themes of water
resources, stewardship, responsibility, and taking action. The
performance should be 45-60 minutes starting at 2pm. Two performers I
suggest are David Stokes from Milwaukee area and Ken Lonnquist from
Madison area. Do you know any performers? Let Denise know so she can
check for availability and price quotes. Denise will bring all gathered
info to the meeting for the team to choose a performer.
School Registrations: Denise will do the school mailing, BUT where and
to whom should teachers mail back their registrations?
Fundraising Strategies---Let's brainstorm possible in-kind and financial
sponsors
Review and Assign tasks to team members.
Timeline
Any other ideas
I am so excited about this festival and I hope you join us in making
this festival the best one yet!! Please let me know how YOU would like
to be involved-planning committee, volunteer with tasks before event,
volunteer day of event!
Jean Schomisch can be reached at 715-839-4788 or
Jean.Schomisch@co.eau-claire.wi.us.
Planning Committee members are needed to help with the following work
areas:
Logistics
Fundraising
Volunteer Recruitment & Training
School Relations
Lesson Development & Training
Teacher Resource Area
Publicity
Food
And Help where needed, and Day of Event Volunteers
EVERYONE, you can review the various volunteer opportunities in the
Festival PowerPoint presentation (pages 6-9) and let Denise know how YOU
would like to help ASAP. [PLEASE READ ON FOR INFORMATION ON HOW TO
DOWNLOAD THE POWERPOINT.] For more information, Denise Kilkenny-Tittle
or Jean Schomisch.
Denise Kilkenny-Tittle, Coordinator
Wisconsin Groundwater Guardian Program
Center for Watershed Science & Education
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
1900 Franklin Street, CNR 224
Stevens Point, WI 54481
715-346-2722
dkilkenn@uwsp.edu or gwguardian@uwsp.edu
www.uwsp.edu/cnr/gwguardian
The Groundwater Festival powerpoint presentation can be downloaded from
an ftp server.
Downloading Instructions:
If you would like to download the October 2004 Groundwater Festival
Informational PowerPoint Presentation, follow these steps:
Open the internet
Type: ftp://cnrdept1.uwsp.edu/
Open the folder labeled "WI Groundwater Guardians" by double clicking
Open the folder labeled "GWfestival" by double clicking
Right click on the file you want ("PPTinfomtg10-2004") and use COPY TO
FOLDER (you may have a slightly different option depending on the type
of computer (MAC or PC) and browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape
Navigator) Other options might be SAVE THIS LINK AS or DOWNLOAD TO
DISK, etc.
Select where you want to save the file on your computer
Denise Kilkenny-Tittle, Coordinator
Wisconsin Groundwater Guardian Program