Another successful "Evening Celebrating the Mississippi River"!
The Weisman Art Museum from the vantage point of the river.
Illustration: Replace Design
On October 1, 2014, Friends of the Mississippi River held the 13th annual "Evening Celebrating the Mississippi River" at a Twin Cities architectural landmark on the river, the Weisman Art Museum. We were joined by almost 200 new and old friends of the river to celebrate another years successes for the river. Attendees enjoyed music by guitarist Phil Heywood, a raucous live auction with auctioneer extraordinaire Glen Fladeboe, and a presentation by Executive Director Whitney Clark about our accomplishments and our upcoming advocacy work. We wrapped up with warm, funny, engaging storytelling by very special guest Kevin Kling.
In addition to a wonderful evening of connecting to and celebrating our great river, the event raised critical funds to carry out our work. Building on last years support that enabled us to increase our capacity to organize and take on advocacy issues on behalf of our river and community, this years event raised over $90,000 to put directly toward our program work and help us move forward with key initiatives in the coming year. This includes the $20,000 challenge that hosts, co-hosts and attendees generously helped us to earn!
Photographer Matt Holland documented the event.
The Board and staff of FMR extend a sincere and heartfelt thank you to all of the generous individuals and businesses that helped make this a wonderful evening! Wed like to specifically thank:
- Birchwood Café
- Common Roots Catering
- East Lake Liquors
- Fulton Beer
- Kevin Kling
- Mother Earth Gardens
- Joe Romeros Vacation Rentals (in Santa Fe, NM)
- Phil Heywood
- Todd Norsten
- Upper River Services
If youd like to ensure that youre on the invite list for next years event, please contact John Briel at 651-222-2193 x19 or jbriel@fmr.org.