CFE Annual Meeting September 8th at Weir Farm - Weston LWV and all other LWV's invited to hear excellent Yale speaker on Federal Open Space 

As we received it on the Internet...
Subj: An Invitation from CFE!
Date: 8/31/2001 3:51:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:    saveland@cfenv.org (Save The Land)
Reply-to: savetheland@cfenv.org
 
 

Dear Friend,
Hope you had a great summer and are back, rested and ready to hear the latest about efforts to protect Connecticut's environment. Until then, this is just a brief note to remind you that CFE's Annual Meeting is coming up soon and you're invited . . .

The Board and Staff of the
Connecticut Fund for the Environment
invite members and friends to our

ANNUAL MEETING
Saturday, September 8, 2001

at Weir Farm National Historic Park
Wilton, Connecticut
 

Event Schedule

1:00 p.m.
Parking at Branchville School - vans will begin a continuous shuttle to the site.

1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Annual Review - Election of Officers
Presentation of Awards - The Nature Conservancy, the Shepaug River Association and the 15 towns that participated in the Coalition for the Permanent Protection of Kelda Lands.
Featured Speaker: Professor Robin Winks, professor of history at Yale and foremost authority on US National Parks.
Professor Winks has visited all 385 units in the National Park system and will speak on "America's National Parks: Preservation and Degradation"

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Reception

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
- Guided Tours of American Impressionist J. Alden Weir's studio
- Nature Walk

Casual Dress

RSVP 203.787.0646, ext. 22 or mailto:protect@cfenv.org by August 30, 2001.

Special thanks to the Weir Farm Trust and the National Park Service for their help!
This event is free and open to the public. 


This (below) is the sample letter to leadership on the subject of Kelda lands...that did the trick!

The Honorable Moira K. Lyons
Speaker of the House
Legislative Office Building
Hartford, CT 06105
 

Dear Representative Lyons:

Members of the League of Women Voters of Connecticut, in conjunction with the Coalition for the Permanent Protection of the Kelda Lands, have strongly supported the Governor’s initiative to protect the 18,700 acres owned by the Kelda Group.

The Connecticut General Assembly will soon be voting on the 2001-03 budget and finance package.  The proposed capital budget, as adopted by the Finance Committee, includes the necessary funds to permanently protect all of the Kelda lands.

Action is needed before the end of the session to approve the funding necessary to acquire the Kelda lands.  We urge you to act before it is too late and this critically important open space becomes lost to development.  Thank you.

Sincerely,
 
 

Jara N. Burnett
Vice President, Public Issues