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September 20, 2003

Greenspace

Dining Out for Clean Water

Sustainability Festival October 11-12th

New WVEC E-mail Action Alert Coordinator


Greenspace

Support the West Virginia Land Trust's proposal to develop a Greater Charleston Greenway Master Plan to create a network of greenspace and trails right here in our City!

The West Virginia Land Trust invites you to a presentation to the City Council Parks &Recreation Committee on September 22, 2003 at 5:30 PM in the Mayor's conference room. Speak up for greenspace and trails!!

For more information or to help with this important project, contact WV Land Trust at 346-7788 or info@wvlandtrust.org.

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Dining Out for Clean Water

If you all could help us spread the word about a great event on Saturday, September 28 Called Dining Out for Clean Water in Fayetteville. The link is below. Thank you! Carl Bolyard http://www.wvrivers.org/dining.htm

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Two-day Sustainability Festival in Athens in 2003

The 3rd annual Athens Area Sustainability Festival is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, October 11-12, Athens County Fairgrounds, in Athens, OH. The theme this year is "Independently Together."

Hours will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, and 12 noon to 5 p.m., Sunday. A dinner featuring locally-grown foods is scheduled for 7 p.m., Saturday night. Cost is $10 per person. Seating is limited to 60. For information call 594-6644.

The Festival showcases (among many other aspects of community): recycling, solar and wind power, watershed restoration, organic farming, alternative transportation, heritage preservation, citizenship, local currency, community development organizations, health and wellness practitioners, local artists, small business owners, and do-it-yourselfers of every stripe.

Also included are musicians, theatrical groups, jugglers, poets, storytellers, film makers, food vendors, educators, etc., all committed to a community identity rooted in the principles of sustainability.

For more information call (740) 594-6644 or send email to isbalkits@yahoo.com. Donations may be sent to PO Box 58, Amesville, OH 45711.

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New WVEC E-mail Action Alert Coordinator

Don Alexander, who has been maintaining the web page for WVEC has graciously offered to take over the Action Alert List. If you have any alerts that you would like sent out to the WVEC List please send them to Don.

Don and I are still in the transition process, this should be the last e-mail that I send out to everyone. If you do not get an e-mail from WVEC (from Don) in the next few weeks, please contact me or Don and we will make sure that we fix the problem.

Thank you for your continued support of the West Virginia Environmental Council.

Chris Hogbin

WVEC E-mail Action Alert Coordinator

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