FORWARDED BY JANE CLARK --

> Jane, thank you very much for your support and the background
> information you provided me this afternoon.  I wanted to update you on
> some events.
> The Omaha World Herald sent 3 reporters/photographers to the timber this
> afternoon to meet with my father, Darrell Kilworth.  Maybe the Register
> would like to know what their competition thinks is news.  Channel 8
> News Live Link is going to try to be there tomorrow.
> Jake Drake is touring the site Saturday at 9:00.  The Garden Club is
> going to lay wreathes on the tree stumps.  Others are making green
> ribbons for people to wear. One neighbor attempted to count the tree
> logs.  He stopped at 350 and there were more trees on the ground and
> many have already been taken away.
> My mother quotes Ben Van Gundy in a conservation newsletter…In a state
> with limited native timber, Littlefield Park is a jewel.
> Francis Ballou, farmer and former Conservation Board member; Wanita
> Reynard, Prairie DOGS (a local group) and Jake Drake, state
> representative, are facilitating the meeting at 10:00 at the Community
> Center in Exira.
> The goal of the meeting is to understand why the Conservation Board took
> this action and how to prevent it from happening to other native timber
> areas in the state.

>
> Your thoughts and actions are greatly appreciated.
> Joan Hitzel

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