Traverse City leaders will host a community fundraiser at the State Theatre on Tuesday, October 28 at 6pm in an effort to raise dollars for the installation of another water bottle filling station in city limits.

Commissioners Jeanine Easterday and Jim Carruthers and Mayor Michael Estes have led the effort to install the new stations throughout the city to reduce waste created by plastic water bottles. Six such stations have been funded to date. At the State fundraiser, Estes will introduce a screening of documentary film Divide in Concord, a 2014 Traverse City Film Festival hit that follows the "entertaining tale of banning bottled water in small town America."

While the event is free to the public, a $20 donation is recommended. Estes says an anonymous donor has agreed to match up to $3,500 in received donations - enough to cover the cost of a $7,000 station. "In a three-month timeframe, (the six installed stations) may have saved the discarding of up to 50,000 disposable water bottles in the city's waste stream," says Estes. "Imagine what another station will do."