Cheers to donors via the Record Eagle

From Record Eagle Editorials and their "Cheers" Section
23 June 2014

To private donors who came up with $35,000 to pay for five water fountains/filling stations sprinkled around Traverse City.

The fountains are an innovative, albeit modest approach to stem the flood of plastic water bottles that fill city trash containers. Water will be available for a quick drink or to fill empty bottles.

Donors include the National Cherry Festival, Hagerty Insurance, CH2M Hill, at least one anonymous donor and Traverse City mayor Michael Estes and his wife Rhonda.

“The whole idea was to reduce the level of plastic water containers that sit in our public parks,” Michael Estes said. It’s a good idea that could and should catch on.

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