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TUSCARORA

FARMERS  MARKET

Vendors Wanted -

            To encourage better eating within our community the Tuscarora Environment Program and the Haudenosaunee Whole Health Initiative are organizing a Farmers Market.  We are asking anyone willing to sell any of their fresh homegrown vegetables & fruits and homemade canned goods, please participate.  All we ask is the products are homegrown or homemade.  No processed foods, candy, chocolates, junk food, or any other type of vending.  Please stick to healthy - unprocessed foods.

 START DATE : SATURDAY, AUGUST 02, 2003

Rain days to be determined by the vendors. We plan to have the farmers market every Saturday while weather permits.

TIME: 10 AM - 2 PM
(Same time every Saturday)

PLACE: Tuscarora Nation Picnic Grove

NO CHARGE for Vendors
Bring your own tables, chairs, and vendor tents.

 For more information, contact:

 Rene Rickard @ 471-3876 or Levi Rickard @ 609-3814.

◊  A monetary settlement from the Authority of $2 million per year for thirty five years to the Tribe,

          ◊  A sale of 9 megawatts of power to the Tribe at the preference power customer rate for twenty-five years.

          In exchange for all this, the Mohawks would unconditionally support the new license for the Project, dropping any claims to have control or jurisdiction over Project lands, waters, or power production.

The DEIS is acutely aware that the MOU is not a done deal, and makes reference to National Environmental Policy Act requirements that consider “reasonably foreseeable future actions” as part of the deliberations over alternatives to the license conditions.

 Ultimately, the stage set at St. Lawrence and the current work the Authority is performing at Niagara is a real indication of the immense nature of hydropower relicensing. If the Tuscarora Nation is to anticipate the Project’s presence in our territory for

*neil patterson jr.