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Qvcmjd!Opujdf Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity Continues to Build in Ramsey Learn How You Could Own a Home at 0% Interest pre-application. Twin Cities Habitat for Ramsey Municipal Center Additional orientations Humanity (TCHFH) is building in Alexander Ramsey Room are offered at the TCHFH ofﬁ ce in Ramsey again this year. Do you live, 7550 Sunwood Drive N.W. Minneapolis. Anyone interested in work, or have children who attend Ramsey, MN 55303 purchasing a Habitat home is required school in Ramsey? Does your fam-Wednesday, August 20, 6:00 pm to attend an orientation session. To ily make less than 50% of the area learn more about Twin Cities Habitat median income? If you want to learn At the orientation, there will for Humanity or about the area me- about how you can purchase a Habitat be staff present from Habitat to tell dian income and how it is calculated, home, please attend the upcoming you more about their organization, visit the website at www.tchabitat.org homeowner orientation at:how to qualify for a Habitat home, or call 612-331-4090 (ext. 635). and assist you with submission of a Cvtjoftt!Tqpumjhiu Vision Ease Lens is Going Green them continued success, and On April 23, 2008, thanked them for being an Vision-Ease Lens (VEL), a integral part of the business manufacturer of ophthalmic community. lenses, announced that it is In 1997, Vision Ease reducing its carbon footprint Lens moved to 7000 Sun- and setting new sustainabil- wood Drive NW and built a ity standards for manufac- 155,000 square foot manu- turers in Minnesota. As of facturing facility in Ramsey. March 1, all VEL products Vision Ease Lens now manufactured in the Ramsey that choose to set the industry stan- employs over 400 people and is one facility are being made with 100% dard. of the largest employers in the city. renewable energy. There have been On May 22, members of the It is companies like this that help a number of other carbon reducing City Council and city staff attended a make Ramsey a strong manufacturing actions that have been implemented presentation by Doug Hepper, Vision- center in the Twin Cities Metro Area. in the Ramsey facility. They include Ease Lens CEO and President. The With its strong employment history something as large as changing its presentation outlined the company’s it also provides numerous job oppor- manufacturing process to reduce car- recent sustainability initiatives and tunities for Ramsey residents. If you bon emissions by 113 metric tons and how they’re being carried out into the would like to learn more about Vision replacing all the facility lighting with future. Vision Ease Lens promotes Ease Lens, please visit the website at energy efﬁ cient ﬂ orescent bulbs; and continuous improvement in this area www.vision-ease.com. as small as, replacing coffee warming and looks to further reduce its carbon If you have questions about pads with thermal dispensers. Think- footprint. A facility tour was pro- other Ramsey businesses, please con- ing both macro and micro in terms of vided showing all the steps in making tact Sean Sullivan, Ramsey Economic energy conservation adds up over the a polycarbonate lens. Ramsey City Development Coordinator, at ssul- long term. Ramsey is proud to have Council and staff commended them livan@ci.ramsey.mn.us or 763-433- businesses located in this community on sustainability initiatives, wished 9829. www.ci.ramsey.mn.us 15