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A Titch Less Salt, PleaseRamsey Lions <br />Club <br /> Salt is sooo good. Tasty on food. Keeps roads safe. <br />So ens hard water. Yet salt, measured by chlorides, is a <br />  e Ramsey Lions have had <br />growing problem in your local lakes and streams. Water <br />a busy summer.  e group pro- <br />so eners are one place where you can fi ne tune your salt use <br />vided a BBQ meal for seniors, <br />to keep area waterbodies healthy and save money. <br />helped with the D-Feet Walk for Children’s Hearing and <br /> So eners use salt when they regenerate, a process that <br />served a meal at Stepping Stones in Anoka.  e Ramsey <br />washes accumulated minerals from their ion exchange resin <br />Lions have been serving adult beverages at  e Draw <br />beads.  ink of this as a fi lter that takes out your water’s <br />Summer Concert Series this summer on  ursday eve- <br />hardness, but needs to be rinsed with saltwater when it gets <br />nings.  ey will also be serving adult beverages and pork <br />gunked up.  e frequency of regeneration can be based on <br />chop meals at the Nowthen  reshing Show, August 16- <br />either water used or time since the last regeneration. In <br />18. <br />either case, you need to tell the so ener what your water’s <br />  e Lions will once again be serving adult beverages <br />hardness is. If you don’t, you may be wasting salt or failing <br />at Happy Days and working with the Mercy Wellness Van <br />to so en your water suffi ciently. <br />providing free health screening on Saturday, September <br /> Water hardness tests are readily available. Test kits can <br />7. Donations from charitable gambling were $500,000+ <br />be purchased at hardware stores or online. Test strips are <br />this last year. Some of the donations made were to <br />free from some companies, like Morton Salt, through their <br />Can Do Canines, Mercy Wellness Van, Anoka-Ramsey <br />websites. Ramsey’s Municipal water ranges from 12 - 16 <br />Community College, Anoka Technical College, Chil- <br />grains of hardness. Private well water hardness may vary. <br />dren’s Hearing, Children’s Cancer, Stepping Stones, True <br />Water so ener control panels are generally pretty simple, <br />Friends, Meals on Wheels as well as multiple scholarships <br />allowing you to enter your water’s hardness. <br />and sponsoring the 55 Alive Drivers Classes for Ram- <br /> Salt used by water so eners doesn’t disappear. It is <br />sey residents.  e Lions will once again be providing <br />discharged to your septic system or to the wastewater treat- <br /> anksgiving and Christmas food baskets for those in <br />ment plant, but it cannot be removed in those facilities. <br />need this holiday season and provide donations to resi- <br />Salt from your water so ener is eventually discharged to <br />dents suff ering hardships. <br />the ground or rivers. <br />  e Lions are always looking for volunteers with a <br />  e Lower Rum River Watershed Management Orga- <br />heart for serving others and a passion for giving back to <br />nization (LRRWMO) thanks you for helping protect your <br />the community.  e Lion’s serve their communities un- <br />lakes and streams.  e LRRWMO is formed by the Cities <br />der the belief that, “Where there’s a need, there’s a Lion.” <br />of Anoka, Andover and <br />You can follow the Ramsey Lions on Facebook at Ramsey <br />Ramsey to manage local <br />Lions Club Minnesota or come to a meeting to fi nd out <br />water resources. For <br />more.  e Lions meet on the third Wednesday of the <br />more information see <br />month at 6:30 pm at Willy McCoy’s in Ramsey. <br />www.LRRWMO.org. <br />Ramsey Resident • September/October 201915 <br />