GLIN==> Mayors' Meeting: St. Catharines, Ontario on 16-18 June 2003

["Jonathon D. Colman" <jcolman@glc.org>]

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Mayors' Meeting
- Mark your calendars!
The International Association of Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Mayors
invites the entire community of regional interests to St. Catharines, Ontario
for its 2003 Annual Meeting on June 16-18. Details and personal invitations
will soon follow.

Learn more about the International Association of
Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Mayors online at http://www.glc.org/mayors/
and at http://www.st-laurent.org/english/assoc/mayor.htm

The International Association was formed some 16 years ago and is the pre-eminent
regional body for addressing and acting on environmental and economic issues
and opportunities of  interest to Great Lakes and St. Lawrence coastal cities
and communities. Among its many priorities is ecosystem restoration, where
the Association has pledged to work with the region's leadership in developing
and implementing a restoration plan. Also, the Association has authored the
Salaberry-De-Valleyfield Protocol presenting ten principles that will
guide its efforts in water resource use and protection.

The 2003 meeting, co-hosted by St. Catharine's mayor Tim Rigby and
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, will provide a focal point for advancing
these and related Association initiatives.

In extending the invitation, Mayors Rigby and Daley note, “The International
Association of Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Mayors has proven to be a consistently
valuable venue of co-operation among cities with an interest in maximizing
their relationships with the economy, ecology and culture of the Great Lakes
and the St. Lawrence.”

The International Association of Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Mayors was
established at the suggestion of the eight Great Lakes states (acting through
the Great Lakes Commission) and the provinces of Ontario and Québec.  Its
efforts are spearheaded by a mayoral Board of Directors, with technical and
secretariat support from the St. Lawrence Economic Development Council, based
in Québec City, Québec and the Great Lakes Commission, based in Ann Arbor,
Michigan.

Questions about the Association and upcoming meeting can be directed to Claude
Mailloux, St. Lawrence Economic Development Council at 418-648-4572 or cmailloux@portquebec.ca
or to Steve Thorp, Great Lakes Commission at 734-971-9135 or sthorp@glc.org