From the TC Ticker - Traverse City Business Magazine
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October 17, 2014
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Traverse City leaders will host a community fundraiser at the State
Theatre on Tuesday, October 28 at 6pm in an effort to raise dollars for
the installation of another water bottle filling station in city limits.
Commissioners Jeanine Easterday and Jim Carruthers and Mayor Michael
Estes have led the effort to install the new stations throughout the
city to reduce waste created by plastic water bottles. Six such stations
have been funded to date. At the State fundraiser, Estes will introduce
a screening of documentary film Divide in Concord, a 2014 Traverse City
Film Festival hit that follows the "entertaining tale of banning
bottled water in small town America."
While the event is free to the public, a $20 donation is recommended.
Estes says an anonymous donor has agreed to match up to $3,500 in
received donations - enough to cover the cost of a $7,000 station. "In a
three-month timeframe, (the six installed stations) may have saved the
discarding of up to 50,000 disposable water bottles in the city's waste
stream," says Estes. "Imagine what another station will do."
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