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Our Bay: A toast to the bay: Our glasses are half full

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 12/20/08

Chesapeake Bay Health Fatigue is all around us - from doom and gloom about dead zones to reports about failing to meet improvement targets set 25 years ago.

Colleen Dugan - The Capital Lynne Forsman, founder of Green Drinks Annapolis, works for the Greener Results consulting firm. Elvia Thompson, founder of AnnapolisGreen.com, is president of Stellar Presentations, a Web and print design firm.

It's enough to make you feel hopeless and depressed. We believe that by working together we can turn things around. We see the proverbial glass not as half empty, but as half full.

Our ancestors came here by water. Many of us live here because of the water. Who, then, has a greater stake in the health of the Chesapeake Bay than we who live in the Sailing Capital?

If you sail, kayak, row, windsurf, water ski, drive a power boat, or just float on an air...

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