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<font face="Corbel">Please pass this along to your neighbors, family
and friends - </font>we would really appreciate your input as we
move forward towards High Speed Broadband throughout all of Kanabec
County by 2015.<br>
Thank you.<br>
Karen.<br>
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face="Arial Unicode MS">Good afternoon: </font></span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 15px"
class="MsoNormal"><span class="312114019-15022013"><font
face="Arial Unicode MS">As you already know, Kanabec County
was chosen as one of nine communities by the Blandin
Foundation as a Blandin Broadband Community. The Blandin
Broadband Communities Program (BBCP) is a two year program
designed to provide planning and organizing support to rural
Minnesota communities that demonstrate readiness and
resources to either bring robust broadband adoption to
communities without it, or assist already connected
communities to make the best use of information and services
broadband can deliver. </font></span></div>
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class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial Unicode MS"><span
class="312114019-15022013"><strong>Communities and
organizations within Kanabec County are eligible
to apply for up to a total of $100,000 in grant funds for
projects that fit program criteria over the next year</strong>.
<strong>In order to kick this program off, the Kanabec
Broadband Initiative (KBI) will be hosting a community
meeting on </strong></span><strong>Thursday March 7th,
2013 from 1:00pm to 4:30pm at the Eastwood Senior Living <span
class="312114019-15022013">C</span>ommunity <span
class="312114019-15022013">C</span>enter at 170 Valhalla
Circle in Mora.<span class="312114019-15022013"> </span></strong>This
meeting will be an opportunity for community leaders and
residents to learn about the program, help assess our
community's strengths and gaps as it pertains to
broadband, and begin to identify projects that may be eligible
for financial support through the program. We hope to
stimulate ideas for projects as well as discuss potential
projects already in the formulation stage. </font></div>
<div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 15px" class="MsoNormal"><span
class="312114019-15022013"><font face="Arial Unicode MS">This
meeting will also be an opportunity to hear about details of
the Kanabec Broadband Initiative Broadband Feasibility Study
completed this past October. Members of U-reka Broadband
Ventures will be present to provide a summary of the study
they prepared for KBI and answer any questions you may have
about it.</font></span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 15px" class="MsoNormal"><span
class="312114019-15022013"><font face="Arial Unicode MS">Please
consider attending the March 7th meeting if you're able!!</font></span></div>
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<div align="left"><font size="4" color="#000080" face="Eras Medium
ITC"><strong>Beth Thorp</strong></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Eras Medium ITC">Community
Development Planner</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Eras Medium ITC">Mora City Hall |
101 Lake Street South | Mora, MN 55051</font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Eras Medium ITC">320.225.4807 Direct
| 320.679.3862 Fax</font></div>
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