- Font Size:
- Default font size
- Larger font size
| Thursday, May 08, 2008 | (No comments posted.)
CROWN POINT | Approximately 50 Indiana state senators and representatives gathered in Indianapolis on earlier this year for the Indiana Association of Soil & Water Conservation District's Annual Legislative Breakfast.
Indiana Senator Sue Landske, R-Cedar Lake, Rep. Ed Soliday, R-Valparaiso, and Rep. Don Lehe, R-Brookston met with supervisors Edgar Corns, Lyle Patchett and Brian Wietbrock, associate supervisors John Nelson and Darlene Corns, Administrator Phyllis Reeder and Bill Moran, DC all from the Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District. They discussed local projects, programs, and funding.
The breakfast included presentations from State Senator Beverly Gard, Gail Peas of the USDA Farm Service Agency and Mary McConnell of The Nature Conservancy.
Supervisors want a permanent, dedicated funding source for the Clean Water Indiana program that will provide the dollars necessary for the Indiana Conservation Partnership to effectively address water quality and land use issues on a watershed-by-watershed basis, legislators were told.
"The legislative breakfast is one of the best attended legislative events in the state. It gives our legislators the opportunity to discuss water quality issues and learn about soil and water conservation efforts in Lake County”, said Edgar Corns, Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District chairman. The Indiana General Assembly created the Clean Water Indiana program in 1999 to fund soil conservation and water quality programs.
- For The Times
Back to story No comments posted.
- It wasn't clear, concise or focused on the topic in the story.
- It was a personal attack, vulgar, explicit or degrading, used actual or implied profanity or contained potentially libelous statements.
- It accused someone of being guilty of a crime.
- It promoted violence or illegal acts.
- It contained telephone numbers or street addresses, or e-mail addresses and links to Web sites other than nwi.com or government agencies.
In no way do these comments represent the views of The Times or Lee Enterprises.
Passionate views, pointed criticism and critical thinking are welcome. Name-calling, crude and profane language and personal abuse are not welcome.
Reader comments will not be edited - they will be approved or declined. They may be used in the print edition of the newspaper.
If you feel a posted comment has violated these guidelines, please email our New Media team the commenter's name, the comment and a link to the article.
For more information please read our Terms of Service.