Help IOSA | Letter
Published 11:07 am Wednesday, July 30, 2014
The San Juan County Fair is Aug. 13 to 16 and, thanks to the San Juan Island Community Foundation, you will have an opportunity to help fund a much-needed new Islands’ Oil Spill Association spill response equipment trailer and enjoy an outing to the fair at the same time.
The SJICF has offered a 50 percent matching grant for a special campaign to help IOSA raise the funds needed to purchase a Cargo-Mate 10’ x 6’ supply trailer to be stationed at our Roche Harbor storage site and to sit beside our trailer that is there now holding 1100 feet of containment boom.
Several of the spill equipment trailers that we have stationed throughout the San Juans were donated to us (or sold for a good price) over the past 20-plus years and are slowly but surely needing to be replaced. Just last week, we had to retire the very first trailer we used to carry a containment boom acquired in 1990.
By raising $3,500 during the period from Aug. 13 through Aug. 16, the Community Foundation will donate an additional $1,750 to IOSA. If we raise only $500 during that period, SJICF will donate $250. In other words, it’s a 50 percent matching grant opportunity. There are three ways to donate.
1. You can donate directly at the San Juan Island Community Foundation Fair booth.
2. You can send a check made payable to the San Juan Island Community Foundation with a note in the memo line that says it is for “IOSA’s New Storage Trailer” and mail it to: SJICF, PO Box 1352, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 (be sure it will be received no later than Aug. 16).
3. You can donate with a credit card through the “Giving Center” on the Foundation’s website at www.sjicf.org. When it takes you to the SJICF homepage, you’ll find the “Giving Center” up near the top, over to the left side on the black bar. Click on that, and when you get to that page, you’ll easily find the place where you “Give to a fund or project.” Your choice in the dropdown menu, we hope, will be IOSA.
Remember that for your donation to qualify for the 50 percent matching grant, you need to do this only between the dates of Aug. 13 through Aug. 16.
Donations for IOSA’s project can be made at the SJICF booth anytime during the fair, but if you’d like to come and visit with IOSA, we will be staffing the booth on Aug. 15 from 4 to 6 p.m. and Aug. 16 from noon to 2 pm. We’d love to have you stop by for a visit!
Jackie Wolf
IOSA Operations Coordinator
