Meeting Tomorrow 30th July

Fellow Members and interested locals,

The next meeting of the Melton Sustainable Living Group Inc. will be held on Thursday 30th July from 7-9pm at the Melton Community Hall, Meeting room 4.

We will start off with a short presentation about "Saving money through energy efficiency".

I also would like to spend some time as a group brainstorming/thinking/talking about a project that will benefit the community and promote Sustainable Living in the shire. Now that we are a little larger in size, I believe it is time to kick off a project that will help keep us and other like minded people engaged for the longer term.

Also, please feel free to pass this email to anyone who you think would be interested in attending.

Hope to see you all there.

Regards,

Gavin
President

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14 August 2009 at 06:47

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