Welcome!
Columbia's Earth Day Festival will be
held on Sunday, April 20, 2008.
Rain Date Sunday, April 27, 2008
Dear Friend,
Hello. We are writing to invite you to join us as a participant in Columbia’s 2008 Earth Day Festival. Recognizing the need for all of us to affirm the protection and preservation of our environment, the theme for this year’s Earth Day Festival is “Vote for the Earth.”
The Festival will be held Sunday, April 20, in MU’s Peace Park with booths being set up on adjacent downtown streets. In the event of bad weather, we will move the Festival to Sunday, April 27.
This is the nineteenth consecutive year we will be gathering in Downtown Columbia to honor the Earth and celebrate community. The Festival will reflect the importance of learning sustainable ways of living through an expanded Eco Avenue, our educational hub where you can get all sorts of information about how to green your lifestyle.
You’ll also have the opportunity to enjoy music and entertainment on our two stages, visit with non-profits and vendors at the more-than-200-booth Street Fair, get involved in participatory activities in the West Village, and bring your youngsters to play and learn in the Children’s area.
The Earth Day Festival is also a Community Volunteer Fair, coordinated in conjunction with the Voluntary Action Center. We strongly encourage all community groups in search of volunteers to participate, regardless of whether they work directly on environmental issues.
Music from the Peace Park Stage will again be broadcast live on 89.5 KOPN, mid-Missouri’s listener-sponsored community radio.
We are also always in need of volunteers ourselves to pull together a big event like Earth Day. If you are able to help, either in advance, or on the day of the Festival, please visit the Volunteer Opportunities page and contact us. This is just another way you can join us in "Voting for the Earth" this year.
Sincerely,
Mark Haim
For the Earth Day Coalition
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