[GREN-Exec] FW: A New Food Charter for Waterloo Region - pls endorse it!

Tue Mar 26 10:51:58 EDT 2013

I support it too.

Susan B

From: Executive [mailto:executive-bounces at gren.ca] On Behalf Of Kevin
Thomason
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:48 AM
To: Gregory C. Michalenko
Cc: executive at gren.ca
Subject: Re: [GREN-Exec] FW: A New Food Charter for Waterloo Region - pls
endorse it!

Greg,

Sounds like a good idea and I am in favour of supporting and endorsing a
Food Charter to Regional Council.

Keep moving forward in my opinion.

Cheers,

Kevin.

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On 2013-03-26, at 10:22 AM, "Gregory C. Michalenko"
<gcmichalenko at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

Dear GREN Executive members,

I would like to send out this email to paid-up GREN members to seek approval
for officially endorsing a very worthy Regional initiative.  Please let me
know if you approve.  Theo - if we have consensus to back this, please let
me know if you think this should go through you, or whether I should just
email it to GREN members.  If the latter, please let me know the email
address for the Members.  Unfortunately, I only have the address for
executive members and the general mail-out which goes to non-members as
well.

- Greg

_________________________________________________________

DRAFT EMAIL TO GREN MEMBERS

Dear GREN Members,

The Waterloo Food System Round Table is a hard-working and effective group
that has representation from the range of interests in our Region that are
interested in promoting healthy food, local food production, bolstering the
local food economy and equity issues to ensure that access to food and
improved food quality are available to all residents of the Region.  One of
its current initiatives is to get the Waterloo Region Council to adopt a
"Food Charter" as a sort of constitutional document to guide municipal
policies and programs that relate to food.  A number of Canadian
municipalities already have food charters.

The promoters of the Charter are eager to get endorsement from as many
organizations as possible.  I think GREN should go on record as a sponsor.
What do you think?  Unfortunately, it will be presented to Regional Council
on April 9 and our next GREN meeting is not until April 11.

Please take a look at the information below and let me know is you think
GREN should support it or not, and if you think it would be appropriate to
consider positive response from you by email or phone to be sufficient to
constitute official endorsement from GREN.

In addition, if you wish to endorse it individually or know of other
organizations that might be sympathetic to endorsing it, please either
contact the Charter group directly, or let me know who you think I should
contact.

- Greg Michalenko

  _____  

Proposed Food Charter

Please encourage your friends and contacts to help us grow the list of
endorsements for this new charter!

It will be presented on our behalf to Regional Council on April 9th (at 1pm
in the Council Chambers at 150 Frederick: please join us if you can!).  See
the Charter and our list of endorsements at
<http://www.wrfoodsystem.ca/blog/2013/03/01/endorse-the-waterloo-region-food
-charter>
http://www.wrfoodsystem.ca/blog/2013/03/01/endorse-the-waterloo-region-food-
charter.  Please also plan to join us for the public launch of our Food
Charter at the  <http://www.wrfoodsystem.ca/events/taste-of-woolwich/#event>
Taste of Woolwich event on Monday, April 15, at 5pm in Breslau.

Endorse the Waterloo Region Food Charter

Mar 01, 2013 01:00 PM

Posted by Jason Vistoli
<http://www.wrfoodsystem.ca/index.php?p=view_profile&member_id=173> 

Image removed by sender.

The Waterloo Region Food Charter
<http://www.wrfoodsystem.ca/files/www/Waterloo_Region_Food_Charter.pdf>  is
now complete!

Make this document a permanent part of Waterloo Region's food policy!

Please consider endorsing the Waterloo Region Food Charter. By signing your
name or lending the support of your organization, you can aid the document's
acceptance by Regional Council when we present the Food Charter on April
9th, 2013.

The final draft was crafted after consulting with our community through an
online survey, reviewing all the contributions, and painstakingly
re-drafting the document to incorporate the survey responses.

Endorsing the Waterloo Region Food Charter is simple:

*	If you are already familiar with the charter process and wish to
endorse this document, please review the updated Food Charter
<http://www.wrfoodsystem.ca/files/www/Waterloo_Region_Food_Charter.pdf>  and
follow the steps below by April 1st, 2013. We would like the voice of all
eaters, community members and organizations regardelss of your position in
the food system.
*	If you are new to the Waterloo Region Food Charter and require more
information before considering endorsement, please see the Food Charter
Backgrounder
<http://www.wrfoodsystem.ca/files/www/Waterloo_Region_Food_Charter_Backgroun
der.pdf>  and our Food Charter Survey blog post
<http://www.wrfoodsystem.ca/blog/2013/01/07/region-of-waterloo-food-charter-
we-need-your-input>  to understand how this document can work for you. Then,
review the updated Food Charter
<http://www.wrfoodsystem.ca/files/www/Waterloo_Region_Food_Charter.pdf>  and
if you agree with the document please follow the steps below by April 1st,
2013.
*	If you agree with the document as it stands, and wish to endorse the
Waterloo Region Food Charter, please send an email to
foodcharter at wrfoodsystem.ca by April 1st, 2013 with the following
information:

*	your name and an explanation of the work you do in the food system,
its okay to say eater or communty member, and whether or not you consent to
making this information public
*	if you are representing an organization/business please include the
organization's name, and if possible send us the logo and indicate if you
consent to making this information public 

Example of personal endorsement:

My name is _______, and I endorse this Charter. My involvement with the food
system is centered around alternative food production methods with the
Community Garden Council. I consent to making this information public.

Example of organizational endorsement:

I am ______, and I work for a local food restaurant here in Cambridge. Our
organization fully endorses this Food Charter, I have attached our logo and
consent to making this information public.

We would appreciate it very much if you would seek formal endorsement of the
Charter by your organization. Image removed by sender. Food Charter word
cloudPlease consider bringing the Food Charter to your Board of Directors,
Executive Director, company owner or whatever process your organization uses
to make important decisions. We feel that our request for Regional Council
to endorse the Food Charter will carry more weight if we can demonstrate
that organizations and individuals have already endorsed the Charter.

Thank you very much for your well thought responses to the survey. Please
join us at the Taste of Woolwich Festival on April 15th for the Food Charter
unveiling.

Drafting Team: Ellen Dejardins, Steffanie Scott, Paula Byrk, Jason Vistoli
and Michelle Metzger

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