If you are interested in attending, please contact Jane Clark at
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Midwest Regional Conservation Committee Meeting

This is an announcement of the September 18-19 MRCC meeting to be
held just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the Wilder Forest Retreat
Center.
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The conservation training will be on Forestry, with Carl Zichella leading
the
workshop.
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They are still planning on having a retreat earlier in the week, arriving
on Wednesday, September 15, during the afternoon to carpool to the Retreat
Center from the Minneapolis Airport.  If they do not have enough
participation for the Retreat, they will need to cancel
the reservations for Wednesday and Thursday night.  Please let Susan Patton
know by this Sunday, August 15, if you are planning on attending or not
attending the retreat portion of the week as we need to make arrangements
for canoes for the Thursday outing.

The retreat portion of the week on Wednesday and Thursday night is $33.00
per
night per person and that does not include food, although we do have use of
a
fully equipped kitchen. We will have a separate discussion with those
attending to have a grocery run to have group meals.

We will be staying in the Homestead for both the retreat portion and the
MRCC
meeting portion.  The cost for the MRCC meeting begins on Friday evening
and
includes Friday and Saturday night lodging and five meals.  Breakfast,
lunch,
and dinner on Sat and breakfast and lunch on Sunday are covered for $98.50
for the weekend.  Please have the checks made out to the Sierra Club, MRCC,
for the $98.50.

Remember to bring written reports from your chapters to distribute and be
prepared to discuss items from your chapter.

At the June meeting a committee was appointed to investigate TMDL
coordination efforts made up of Roger Aiken, Debbie Neustadt, and Dave
Scott.
Please be prepared to give a short report on any progress.

We also appointed a committee to investigate interest in developing
Watershed
Watch / Monitoring in additional chapters that included  MO, IA, OH, and WI
expressing interest.  That committee is Hank Graddy, Roy Hengerson, and
Barb
Frank, please be prepared to give a short report on your progress.

On the agenda so far we have: Bylaw change regarding our new Canadian
member
becoming a voting member of the MRCC.  I still need a revised version of
the
last Bylaws we voted on last year to submit to the Council of Club Leaders.

Please let me know your plans as soon as possible for your participation in
the September MRCC meeting and retreat.
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Please remember, you do not have to be a delegate or alternate delegate to
attend an MRCC meeting, we invite all local volunteers that can possibly
attend to do so.  I'm looking forward to seeing many of you in September.
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Susan Patton
4956 Pritchard Lane
Independence, KY  41051
606-356-8582
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