These Autumn 2006 White Pine Group Program/Meetings will be at US Bank, Kennedy at Wacker, by Kennedy Mall on Dubuque's West Side on the dates indicated beginning at 7 PM. Each program is followed by an EXCOM meeting. Mark your Sierra Club Calendar! Support your local Group's efforts.
Sept. 11 (Monday): "Coal Rush Invades Iowa"
Mark Kresowik, hired by the Sierra Club's Midwest Clean Energy Campaign, will present reasons to support local opposition to a proposed Waterloo coal burning power plant. See page 1 of this newsletter. Please attend this important program dealing with the future well-being of the Earth's life support system as we know it. A national Sierra Club Committee on Global Warming is working to develop policies and programs to help us all become more responsible stewards related to energy consumption. Irresponsible coal burning is just ONE of the many issues facing this planet's long-term ability to provide a livable environment. Come and learn more what the fuss is all about!!
Oct. 24 (Tuesday): "Explore and Serve: Arches National Park, Utah, Sierra Club Service Trip and Colorado's Black Canyon of the Gunnison and Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad", Jim Fahrion
From April 23-29 2006, Jim worked alongside many Sierran volunteers to improve the quality of Arches N.P. preparing for fence construction, improving Visitor Center area vegetation, and more. Later, to Explore and Enjoy. Jim and his wife toured one of Colorado's deepest gorges and traveled by train along the often raging Animas River in southwest Colorado.
Nov. 28 (Tuesday): "Sixteen in the Sawtooths: Lakes, That Is", Dick Worm and Barb Cooey
These Group EXCOM members are also a leadership team for national Sierra Club backpacking outings and from July 25-31 2006, led a trip among lakes of the rugged eastern slope of the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho. Almost daily swims in scenic lakes nestled into jagged mountain grandeur caused one participant, Janet Conley, a trainee for future trip leadership, to later write, "Those lakes were luscious and refreshing. This was my first backpacking trip where I felt clean the whole time." Also, see "The Arrowhead", "Finger of Fate" and some unique quartz crystal formations.
Sept. 11 (Monday): "Coal Rush Invades Iowa"
Mark Kresowik, hired by the Sierra Club's Midwest Clean Energy Campaign, will present reasons to support local opposition to a proposed Waterloo coal burning power plant. See page 1 of this newsletter. Please attend this important program dealing with the future well-being of the Earth's life support system as we know it. A national Sierra Club Committee on Global Warming is working to develop policies and programs to help us all become more responsible stewards related to energy consumption. Irresponsible coal burning is just ONE of the many issues facing this planet's long-term ability to provide a livable environment. Come and learn more what the fuss is all about!!
Oct. 24 (Tuesday): "Explore and Serve: Arches National Park, Utah, Sierra Club Service Trip and Colorado's Black Canyon of the Gunnison and Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad", Jim Fahrion
From April 23-29 2006, Jim worked alongside many Sierran volunteers to improve the quality of Arches N.P. preparing for fence construction, improving Visitor Center area vegetation, and more. Later, to Explore and Enjoy. Jim and his wife toured one of Colorado's deepest gorges and traveled by train along the often raging Animas River in southwest Colorado.
Nov. 28 (Tuesday): "Sixteen in the Sawtooths: Lakes, That Is", Dick Worm and Barb Cooey
These Group EXCOM members are also a leadership team for national Sierra Club backpacking outings and from July 25-31 2006, led a trip among lakes of the rugged eastern slope of the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho. Almost daily swims in scenic lakes nestled into jagged mountain grandeur caused one participant, Janet Conley, a trainee for future trip leadership, to later write, "Those lakes were luscious and refreshing. This was my first backpacking trip where I felt clean the whole time." Also, see "The Arrowhead", "Finger of Fate" and some unique quartz crystal formations.