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Date:	Feb 01 2000 15:21:38 EST
From:	"Reef Ball's Interested List" <reefball@reefball.com>
Subject:	Reef Ball Update

Message #140 1) Reef Balls were deployed in Sarasota Bay yesterday. The Reef Balls were provided by Reef Innovations, The Reef Ball Foundation and Eternal Reefs. Deployment was donated by Duncan Marine. 2) The Reef Ball Foundations expects to approve a matching Grant for the Northern Marianas College Marine Technology Program Reef Ball project in Saipan. The initial goal is to build 90 Reef Balls for research and study. Our long term goal is to duplicate the process on Tinian and Rota. 3) The Living Classrooms Foundation, The Reef Ball Foundation, The Reef Ball Development Group, Reef Innovations, the Virginia DNR Artificial Reef Program, an association of Concrete Producers in Virginia and the directors of Virginia Tech's Institute for Connecting Science Research to the K-12 Classroom will meet at the Hotel Roanoke from 2:45 - 4:00 on Monday February 28th to discuss a possible statewide educational project involving the production of Reef Balls by students for the Artificial Reef Program. This is a preliminary meeting. 4) A full page article about the Reef Ball Coalition’s eco-tourism trips involving the building and deploying on Reef Balls in in the February 2000 Southwest Florida Fishing News, page 10. 5) The Reef Ball Foundation and BREEF (Bahamas non-profit organization) are meeting in Sarasota tomorrow to discuss marine reserves and other common environmental efforts.

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