Contact: James Tye, Co-Founder/Vice President
Clean Lakes Alliance
james@cleanlakesalliance.com
Office: (608) 255-1000
Cell: (608) 628-6655
The Clean Lakes Alliance Hosts 3rd Annual Save Our Lakes Community Breakfast
and Release of the 2013 State of the Lakes Report
The Clean Lakes Alliance (CLA) is holding the 3rd Annual Save Our Lakes Community Breakfast this Friday, April 25th at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. This event, which will host over 600 members of the community, is a community celebration of the lakes and the annual meeting of the CLA.
Save Our Lakes was created to bring the community together to review each year’s progress towards cleaner, healthier lakes. This event is a time to celebrate and assess the past year, and to launch new programs and initiatives for the year ahead. It is a friend-raiser and a fundraiser for the CLA, raising support and funds to continue its efforts to protect and improve water quality in the Yahara River watershed.
Presentations include the 2013 State of the Lakes Report, which includes a report on the state of the Yahara lakes, phosphorus-reduction project highlights, and the CLA Annual Report. The program will feature videos showcasing partners from government, business, and the community in their clean lakes efforts. Speakers include Dr. Steve Carpenter, Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology; Brennan Nardi, editor of Madison Magazine; Joe Parisi, Dane County Executive; and Dave Lumley, CEO of Spectrum Brands.
The event will also feature mobiles of over 1000 life-sized fish suspended in the lake-themed exhibition hall, a work of art produced through the community art initiative Schooling for Cleaner Lakes, a partnership between CLA, American Family Insurance DreamBank, and over 80 schools and community groups. The fish have been designed and decorated by community members inspired by their lakes as a way to celebrate our watershed and draw attention to what lives in our lakes.
Walk-in registration will be available the morning of the event starting at 7 a.m., and the breakfast will run from 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Media are welcome to attend to cover the event.
The Save Our Lakes Community Breakfast is presented by Spectrum Brands, and sponsored by Alliant Energy, American Transmission Company, CG Schmidt, Foley & Lardner LLP, American Family Insurance DreamBank, Lands’ End, and Yahara Lakes Association.
For more information go to the Save Our Lakes website: cleanlakesalliance.com/save-
