[Trees] IPCUTSOT Meeting June 27; Planning information for July 4th parade

[Kyra Shair]

Dear IPCUTSOT Members:

Hope you are having a good summer!   We realize we haven't had many meetings
since
Illinois Power withdrew its Vegetation Management Tariff from the Illinois
Commerce
Commission.  This e-mail is to inform you about what is happening with our
group while
we wait for IP’s next move.

There will be a general meeting on Wednesday, June 27. at  7:30 P. M.   John
McMahon has graciously said that we may meet at his office at 8 east Main
St.,
Champaign (across from the News Gazette Building), since the library is not
available at
this short notice.  We will give an update of what has happened in the last
couple of
months, and we will be making decisions about the future of this
organization, it’s
leadership, and what role we may wish to take when Illinois Power submits a
new tariff.

Next we would like to invite all of you to participate in the Champaign
County Freedom
Celebration Parade on the 4th of July.  We will have an 18-foot flatbed
trailer for those
who would like to participate, but would not care to walk.  Please invite
your friends and
family who would like to be a part of our entry in the parade.  Please RSVP
the number
of people if you’ll be joining us, so that we will know that we have enough
to make a
good entry – but if you decide to come at the last minute, don’t let the
lack of RSVP hold
you back!   We need volunteers to help us decorate the trailer, so please
let us know if
you can help. The theme of this year's parade is "A Celebration of American
Parks and
Recreation."  Help show your support for saving our urban forests and parks
by being a
part of the 4th of July Parade!

To participate in the parade, please wear green shirts and khaki pants or
shorts, and/or
your Save Our Trees buttons in order to give our group a unified appearance.
Participants will be asked to be at the parade starting point at Lincoln and
Illinois Street
between 12:00 (noon) and 12:45 p.m.   If you have any questions, would like
to
participate in decorating the trailer, contact Kyra Shair at 356-1265
(email:
kshair at advancenet.net) or Mary Schlembach at 359-9155 (email:
schlemba at uiuc.edu)
for more information.

I hope to see many of you at this important general meeting, and let’s have
a big turn
out for the fourth of July!  We should be very proud of our efforts thus
far -- IP
withdrew the tariff, which was our initial goal!  See you on the 27th!

Regards,
Kyra Shair, for the IPCUTSOT Executive Committee