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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings fellow CANUFNET members:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The <b><i>Municipal Forestry Institute</i></b> (MFI) is accepting applications for the 2021 edition, which will be held in Bowling Green, Ohio September 26th to October 1st.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">More than three dozen of your Canadian colleagues are part of the MFI alumni: 700 people from all over the world who have graduated from MFI since 2006.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I consider myself blessed to be among that group.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The new skills and new attitude and new friends from MFI nurtured my confidence & competence in the leadership and managerial areas of urban and municipal forestry. I found it very rewarding to expand my network
of friends who were there to help me over the years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">With a strong focus on embracing diversity, MFI 2021 promises to help you too develop your skills necessary to advance your urban forestry program!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For more information, check out the flyer for MFI 2021: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.urban-2Dforestry.com_assets_documents_mfi-2D2021_MFI-5F2021-5FFlyer.pdf&d=DwMFaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=qCyPnecEFfPioiIHwLaFv_zv7tQVCkcUuv2cMpYVyOo&m=LhDim4P42TvSzAD5xw5l3FBNRTP-3m9prrTZpBr36jo&s=reRREWZDtntjCHhsFytVwoyAJZtINNqN-YLnNTxNYD8&e=" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000064">https://www.urban-forestry.com/assets/documents/mfi-2021/MFI_2021_Flyer.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to me. I would love to speak with you about the many rewards of MFI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">John McNeil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">MFI Teaching Cadre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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