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2nd Annual
Friends Of the River San Bernard Town Hall Meeting,
Saturday, February 24th at Dido's Restaurant
$8.95 Buffet Dinner:
6p.m./Meeting 7p.m.- Presentation of Annual Ralph
Primeau Memorial Award - Guest Speaker: Peter Lavigne
If you have a
question that you would like for Peter to address-
please contact Pat Webb, at
pat@sanbernardriver.com or
call 964.4503
 Happy
Birthday "Friends Of the River "
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River
group celebrates 1st year
Published February
20, 2007
CHURCHILL — Friends
of the River San Bernard will celebrate
its first year as an organization
Saturday night during its second annual
town hall meeting.
The event will begin at 6 p.m. at Dido’s
Restaurant, 2922 CR 519, with a social
hour, followed by dinner, entertainment,
presentations and a guest speaker. The
event is to celebrate the organization’s
accomplishments in its first year and
discuss plans for 2007, said Pat Webb,
the group’s president.
One accomplishment Jan Edwards, a
spokeswoman for the organization, said
they were very proud of was their
establishment as a 501(c)3 nonprofit
group.
“We became a 501(c)3 in nine months,”
Edwards said. “The people who are doing
this are so committed to getting it
done.”
The organization has several activities
planned, including four boat parades, a
spring river cleanup, a second “Can You
Dig It?” beach event to simulate the
opening of the river’s mouth, a dock hop
on National Night Out and a fundraiser
in October, Webb said.
“We believe in staying busy,” he said.
At the town hall meeting, the
organization will hand out its most
prestigious award, the
Ralph Primeau Memorial
Award, Webb said.
Primeau was the founder of the San
Bernard River Foundation, which worked
to prevent Phillips Petroleum Company
from transporting petroleum coke on
barges down the San Bernard River. The
company eventually chose a different
transportation method.
Primeau died a few years ago, and the
organization presented the award last
year to his widow, Arlene, in
recognition of their work and for
helping the organization get its start,
Edwards said.
The river foundation became inactive and
ended last year. When the Friends of the
River San Bernard developed, the
foundation handed its resources to the
group Feb. 24, 2006, to help them get
started.
“We give the award to the person or
persons that the San Bernard River group
feels has helped the river the most in
the last year,” Edwards said.
The event’s guest speaker will be Peter
Lavigne, an environmental attorney and
co-founder and a board member of the
Rivers Foundation of Americas, a Friends
of the River press release states.
“He’s been following our work and he
feels we’re moving in the right
direction,” Webb said. “He’s got kudos
all over the place for river work. We’re
very lucky and honored to have him speak
to us.”
Lavigne also has been instrumental in
giving the organization advise, members
said.
“We’re still not sure how to approach a
lot of things,” said Edwards, who called
Lavigne a nationally recognized
organizer for river groups. “We thought
we’d get someone with some experience to
help us.”
About 100 people are expected to attend
the meeting, Edwards said. It is open to
the public, and dinner costs $8.95 per
plate.
“People want to do this,” Edwards said.
“People are really getting into helping
the river or seeing what they can do.” |
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