For the fifth year, the Lake Superior
Binational Forum invites you to celebrate the world’s largest freshwater
lake on the third Sunday in July! This year
we encourage you to “Go Fly a Kite!” The kite symbolizes a clean energy
source—the wind—and fewer air emissions from alternative energy
generators means cleaner lake water for people and wildlife.
Follow this link for a video about Lake Superior and its annual day. The video
was written and produced by news reporter and videographer Greg Peterson of
Marquette, Michigan.
The Binational Forum’s web site
offers suggestions for many activities or actions
you can take to protect, restore, or celebrate the lake on July 20 and every
day.
A calendar
is updated daily with new events and activities scheduled in many communities
around the lake.
You can order free,
multiple copies of a paper placemat and kids’ activity page by
emailing lakesuperiorday@northland.edu. Use it at a family picnic, office gathering,
church dinner, day camp, or other event.
This year’s Lake Superior Day postcard
is a photograph of a swimming spot in Duluth, Minnesota, taken by former Duluth
resident Mark Ryan.
There’s a great story
about this historic spot in the Duluth harbor!
For information about the Lake Superior Binational Program’s Lakewide
Management Plan and biennial highlights of accomplishments for 2006-2008, please click here.
The Lake Superior Binational Forum has been headquartered in the U.S. at
Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, for 17 years. Funding in the U.S.
comes from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes National
Program Office. The Canadian office is administered at EcoSuperior in Thunder
Bay, Ontario, and is funded by Environment Canada.
Lissa
Radke
US
Coordinator
Lake
Superior Binational Forum
Northland
College
1411
Ellis Ave.
Ashland
WI 54806
(715)
682-1489
"Water is life, and the quality of water determines the
quality of life."
--Lake Superior Binational Program vision statement
The next Lake Superior Day is Sunday, July 20, 2008!