<div dir="ltr">FYI<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername"></b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hschnoes@douglas-county.com">hschnoes@douglas-county.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:08 PM<br>Subject: Help Design our Food System Plan!<br>To: <a href="mailto:hschnoes@douglas-county.com">hschnoes@douglas-county.com</a><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dear Lawrence Neighborhood Leaders,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Please share the announcement below with your neighborhood groups about upcoming community meetings to share findings and discuss actions/policies to support
our local food system. (Feel free to share with anyone else you’re connected with who may be interested, too!)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Social media can soon be shared from
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/LawrenceandDouglasCountySustainability/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>LawrenceandDouglasCountySustai<wbr>nability/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thank you!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"High Tower Text","serif";color:#1f497d">Helen Schnoes</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"High Tower Text","serif";color:#1f497d">Food Systems Coordinator</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"High Tower Text","serif";color:#1f497d">Douglas County</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"High Tower Text","serif";color:#1f497d">1100 Massachusetts Street</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"High Tower Text","serif";color:#1f497d">Lawrence, KS 66044</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"High Tower Text","serif";color:#1f497d">Office: <a href="tel:%28785%29%20832-5157" value="+17858325157" target="_blank">(785) 832-5157</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"High Tower Text","serif";color:#1f497d">Cell: <a href="tel:%28785%29%20551-9436" value="+17855519436" target="_blank">(785) 551-9436</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Help identify actions to support our local food system! The Douglas County Food Policy Council is hosting 5 community conversations to inform the countywide Food
System Plan. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">All residents of Douglas County are encouraged to participate. The meetings will include a brief presentation of local findings from food system research. Participants
will then be invited to weigh in with their ideas about actions and policies to support the Douglas County food system.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The meetings will take place:<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><b>Thursday, November 10, 6:00pm to 7:30pm: Lecompton Community Building, Lecompton<u></u><u></u></b></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><b>Saturday, November 12, 10:00am to 11:00am: Union Pacific Depot, Lawrence<u></u><u></u></b></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><b>Monday, November 14, 6:00pm to 7:30pm: Douglas C<a name="m_5396653777117173070__GoBack"></a>o. Fairgrounds, Meeting Hall, Lawrence<u></u><u></u></b></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><b>Tuesday, November 15, 6:30pm to 8:00pm: Community Center, Eudora<u></u><u></u></b></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><b>Wednesday, November 16, 6:00pm to 7:30pm: Lumberyard Arts Center, Baldwin City
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Food System Plan will be completed in the spring of 2017.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The initiative to create a county-wide Food System Plan emerged through the update process for the Comprehensive Plan, Horizon 2020. The Comprehensive Plan update
process identified Agricultural Land Preservation and Local Food System Support & Development as two of 19 key community issues. The Douglas County Food Policy Council was tasked with creating a county-wide Food System Plan.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Additional information about the Food System Plan can be found at
<a href="https://www.douglascountyks.org/fpc/food-system-plan" target="_blank">https://www.douglascountyks.<wbr>org/fpc/food-system-plan</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Food Policy Council is a 23-member advisory body that advises the Douglas County Commission and Lawrence City Commission on policies to strengthen
the local food economy. <a href="http://douglascountyks.org/fpc/" target="_blank">http://douglascountyks.org/<wbr>fpc/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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