Mission

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="02c285a1erlcgo.gif"> <div> <B>Ashtabula Bicentennial Celebration</B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Century Schoolbook" ><B>  </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><B>   |     </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Century Schoolbook" ><A HREF="Home.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ashtabula Bicentennial Celebration"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="Calendar.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Calendar"><U><B>Calendar</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U><B>Contact Us</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contests"><U><B>Contests</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="History.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" History "><U><B> History </B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Member list"><U><B>Member list</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><B>Mission</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="North Park"><U><B>North Park</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Related Links"><U><B>Related Links</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sporting Events"><U><B>Sporting Events</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Mission</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="745" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 207 ><NOBR><div> <B><IMG SRC="3b587c20.gif" border=0 ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" width="391" height="194"></B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <I><B>               </B></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Century Schoolbook" ><I><B>  The Cardinal</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>      The red-plumaged, high-crested</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>songbird    "carinalis    cardinalis" </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>(cardinal)  was  adopted in 1933  by</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>the General Assembly as the official</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>state bird.</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="761" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 267 ><NOBR><div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="758" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 217 WIDTH="752"><div> <B>    Our mission is to celebrate Ashtabula's and Ohio's Bicen-tennial.  We also intend to help make Ohio and Ashtabula a more  beautiful and better place to live by helping  citizens take pride in their  community. Ohio became a state in 1803 and  Ashtabula's  first permanent  settler  settled  in  Ashta-bula in June 1803.                          </B></div> <div> <B>                                                        </B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>