I just donated to the cause and received the following thank you and
update. Please consider adding to the count with a comfortable
amount, however small or large it may be.
Warm regards,
Dick
Dear Friends of the Fairfield Train Safety and Quiet Zone,
Thank You! We had a great response from our last email request and
have doubled our contributions to $21,000 in receipts and about
$22,000 in pledges. We received our largest single donation yet of
$2,700. We have now raised a total of about $43,000 not yet
considering our special benefactors. This is great and we continue
to receive contributions every day. In fact opening all the letters,
logging the contributions, and sending out email thank yous is taking
lots of time.
However we still need more individuals to contribute, especially
before the end of the month before our first Fairfield City
Council Public Safety Committee meeting. Our private benefactors
were impressed with our results and your response and have pledged
to help with large contributions. Yet they feel even more community
support is needed as we received contributions from only about 150
out of the almost 500 on the email list, and the fact that at least
5,000 people have been contacted through our flyer, many of them
twice. Knowing that we are so close to our first benchmark, if you
are planning to give please send something this week to (Tax
deductible contribution) ALF-Fairfield Train Safety & Quiet Zone, PO
Box 2302, Fairfield, Iowa 52556.
The first public meeting with the City Council Safety Committee is
scheduled for Sat. April 28th at 2:30 p.m. at City Hall. This is
an important meeting as we need the committee to recommend to the
full City Council to act on this issue to end loud train horn noise.
The committee's recommendation will hold a lot of weight. So please
plan to attend this meeting as a physical show of support that will
add to all of the work that has been accomplished thus far. Right now
we feel that 2 of the 3 committee members are in support of the Quiet
Zone and it would be great to have unanimous support going to the
next level.
Special Safety Committee Meeting
Saturday April 28th at 2:30 p.m.
Fairfield City Hall 112 South Main St. (Just south of Burlington)
For more info call or email Bill Blackmore
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 919-1118
<http://www.fairfieldquietzone.org/>www.fairfieldquietzone.org
