Voters For Preservation provided informational picketing and leafleting in Round Lake Beach on Thursday, June 21.  Group members distributed educational materials regarding the plans proposed by the Lake County Forest Preserve District Board to build a 15,000-seat Olympic equestrian stadium, plus other buildings, parking lots, etc., within the boundaries of Lakewood Forest Preserve near Wauconda, should Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics be accepted.
The group staged this action outside the meeting of the Lake County Municipal League at Round Lake Beach Civic & Cultural Center, beginning at 7 p.m.
 
"The purpose of this activity was to educate people as to the many downsides of such a major construction project in a forest preserve," according to a VFP spokesman.  "We believe the county board is acting in a manner inconsistent with the wishes of taxpayers who voted to set aside land for preservation," said the spokesman, who added that the board's plan is also "inconsistent with the International Olympic Committee's Green Policy."

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