Tennessee Sierra Club members,

As many of you know, our Tennessee Chapter has embarked on a campaign to get the state to issue a specialty car license plate honoring the Sierra Club and our Chapter. Here is how you can help.

We have to gather 1,000 signatures from Tennessee vehicle owners who will commit to buying these plates for at least one of their vehicles, once it is issued. Signers do not have to be Sierra Club members. Once we have 1,000 or more signatures we will ask the State Legislature to pass a bill creating our license plate. The specialty plate costs $35 additional over and above the ordinary cost of registering a vehicle, and part of the money will come to our Chapter as long as the Sierra Club license plate is sold in Tennessee.

You can help by circulating this petition among those of your friends and relations who are members of, or friends of, the Sierra Club. I would like to ask each of you to gather at least 10 valid signatures. Once you have collected them, please turn them over to your group chair.

The individual who gathers the most signatures will be awarded a $25 gift certificate from REI as our way of saying. "Thanks."

Each group will receive a $1 donation from Tom Mozen the chair of the State of Franklin Group, for each signature it submits to the chapter before or during the April chapter meeting, provided we reach a total of 1,000 or more signatures at that time.

This is a way to ensure both the Tennessee Chapter and the individual groups have strong resources to fight the necessary environmental battles on behalf of everyone in our state.

Thank you very much for everything you do for Tennessee's environment.

Best wishes,

Keith Romig
Tennessee Chapter Fundraising Chair

krsp @ aol.com