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September 1, 2010
Vote for coral reef exhibit at the Aquarium!
Coral reef lovers! Diving and snorkeling enthusiasts! Anyone who treasures the world’s oceans and seas! The Aquarium of Niagara needs YOU!
This is your chance to help create a $50,000 coral reef exhibit at the Aquarium without spending a dime. All you have to do is vote! Vote once a day, every day beginning (today) September 1 and continuing to the end of the month. Tell your friends and relatives to vote, and vote again every day (per Pepsi Refresh Project rules) to make this exhibit happen here at the Aquarium of Niagara.
The Aquarium, after filing a grant request with the national Pepsi Refresh Project, is in the running for a $50,000 grant in the month of September. All year long, Pepsi will distribute up to $1.3 million a month to 32 different grant applications. Projects are selected in four monetary amounts: $5,000, $25,000, $50,000 or $250,000. (Only two are funded at the latter amount each month). The Aquarium Exhibits Department requested $50,000 for its coral reef project.
The Pepsi Refresh Project funds good ideas, big and small, that make the world, and the community, a better place. This is your chance to have your vote count, and not just for the Aquarium Pepsi Refresh Project, but for other great projects suggested by folks from across the country.
Refresh grants are awarded to the project that garners the most votes. You can vote online, by phone, texting, Twitter, etc. You can’t send a message in a bottle!
Aquarium Exhibits staffers, Dan Arcara, supervisor, and Michele Long, parttime aquarist, believe many of the area’s younger residents often visit the Aquarium before traveling to an ocean, and some may never get the chance to do even that. Because the coral reefs in general are in distress due to climate change and human activity, some may disappear within 50 years. By seeing even a small segment of a coral reef, youngsters can learn their importance and why they need protection.
The Aquarium’s coral reef will combine the beauty of a living reef with an educational audio-visual display.
To vote or learn more about this grant project, visit www.refresheverything.com/niagarareefproject. Also, visit www.aquariumofniagara.org and follow the voting on Facebook. Any questions, call Exhibits Supervisor Dan Arcara at 285-3575, Ext. 211.
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