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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Kevin and I have been approached by the Ontario Headwaters Institute to be involved in a headwater hikes project that they are developing. Kevin gave the ED of the organization a car tour recently of some of the amazing areas in our greenbelt.<BR>
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They are wanting to include us in the program. Kevin and I are quite enthusiastic about it. It would be a way to help raise our profile, etc. with minimal work. I have attached their proposal. If you look at the e-mail below you will see the kind of involvement that they see for us.<BR>
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I’ll be bringing the idea to the GREN meeting this week for a decision as to our support for it. If you have any questions or concerns about it, please let me know as soon as possible so I can contact Andrew (the ED) to get answers before our meeting on Wednesday.<BR>
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John<BR>
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John Jackson<BR>
17 Major Street<BR>
Kitchener, Ontario N2H 4R1<BR>
519-744-7503<BR>
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<B>From:</B> Ontario Headwaters Institute <<a href="mailto:andrew@ohwi.ca">mailto:andrew@ohwi.ca</a>> <BR>
<B>To:</B> D. K. Gordon <<a href="mailto:d.k.gordon@rogers.com">mailto:d.k.gordon@rogers.com</a>> ; John Jackson <<a href="mailto:jjackson@glu.org">mailto:jjackson@glu.org</a>> ; Jim Robb <<a href="mailto:jimrobb@frw.ca">mailto:jimrobb@frw.ca</a>> ; Karen Brock <<a href="mailto:info@oakvillegreen.org">mailto:info@oakvillegreen.org</a>> ; Robert Patrick <<a href="mailto:patrick.rj@bell.net">mailto:patrick.rj@bell.net</a>> <BR>
<B>Cc:</B> Cindy Sutch <<a href="mailto:cindysutch@gmail.com">mailto:cindysutch@gmail.com</a>> ; <a href="kevinthomason@mac.com">kevinthomason@mac.com</a> <BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 09, 2014 1:31 PM<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> Headwater Hikes Concept, as promised<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT FACE="Arial">Hi all,<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">As promised, I enclose a copy of the draft material for our application to the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation to enable us to develop a series of ten Headwater Hikes across the Greenbelt. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">As mentioned, your group would receive a digital version of the material on any local headwater hike, which you can post on your website and/or use as you see fit to drive membership, funding, and local interest in the Greenbelt and its pending review. Our only requested restriction in that regard is with respect to schools, for which we have in fact developed improved wording since our convrersations as described in item 2 below.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">Just a few evolving items that I wish to flag for your consideration:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">1. The draft cover page from the Greenbelt Foundation contains the following: </FONT><FONT COLOR="#5F5F5F"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><FONT COLOR="#000080"><U>List all project partners</U>: Preliminary support confirmed with Save the Oak Ridges Moraine, Friends of the Rouge Watershed, Oakville Green, the Grand River Environmental Network, and the Coalition on the Niagara Escarpment. Additional support will be sought through both the Credit River Alliance and the Ontario Greenbelt Alliance, of which the OHI is a member. </FONT>While we are open to comments now, the Greenbelt is only soliciting letters of intent at this time, and we'd chat with each of you in more detail if and when the OHI gets invited to submit a detailed application.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">2. Item 7 on the bottom of page 1 improves on the oral description I provided on the phone about schools. The new wording encourages your group to take the lead on a local, one-off hike with a class, although we'd remain available to assist you in any one-off hike, but provides a clearer statement about our desire to ensure your future non-involvement in delivering on-going school programming to take classes out to headwater areas; and,<BR>
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3. </FONT></SPAN><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'> The very last section on page 2, relating to 2015, is new. I think you'll find it useful, but I need to go back to the Foundation to understand if and how we'd request and receive financial support for actions more than a year downstream, and which may have deliverables more difficult to garantee than all the other aspects of the application.<BR>
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Please let me know your thoughts by the end of Tuesday,<BR>
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Andrew<BR>
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