Next Event: National Public Lands Day

http://cvnpa.org/Events/eventdetail.aspx?id=165

This Saturday, September 26th, we will be going to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park to volunteer for National Public Lands Day. This is a great way for us to both learn more about our local community and to give back to it as well.

I've been planning with one of the managers at the CVNP, and she's really excited about us coming. The project they've got for us is made possible through a grant just for college students.

Here's the information from the e-mail the coordinator sent me.

"Please meet at Boston Mills Ski Resort, located at 7100 Riverview Road in Peninsula, at 8:30 a.m. to complete waiver forms and get something to eat. Your group is signed-up for the demolition site project in Brecksville to remove scrap metal. We will serve a light breakfast and lunch.

Please wear sturdy boots or shoes, long pants, long sleeves (preferred), hat (preferred), dress for the weather, and bring a small pack with work gloves, sun block, insect repellent, and water."

We start at 8:30am (with a provided breakfast!), work until noon (with a provided lunch!), and then have the option of watching a new documentary there, if we'd like. So it's not too big of a time commitment, there's free food, for goodness sake, and it sounds like we'll have the chance to make a difference. How cool.



More information coming on how we'll carpool/meet to get there, but I hope you're all able to come!

See you all at the meeting this Thursday!
--Michelle

Meeting Minutes from Sept 3, 2009

Greetings!

Huzzah, spiffier-looking website! I'm not done with it all yet, but...it's-a coming.

It was so exciting to see a bunch of new and returning faces yesterday, so thank you all for your support and interest! Here's a summary of what we talked about (because yes, in the midst of all that rambling...we actually did end up saying something, I hope).

-- Budgets are tight/nonexistent this semester, so we'll be doing a lot of amazing local trips.
-- So we welcome any suggestions! Feel free to comment below or e-mail us with your ideas.

--Dues are due by October 1st, 2009.

--If you were not able to make it to the meeting, you need to meet with Michelle as soon as possible to get your Health history and Liability forms filled out. She needs to turn these in by September 17th.

--Also, if you have any recommendations/OHMANdon'tbuythis on any outdoor products, movies, books, or places, let us know. We're going to try to build up this website as a resource as well.

--Spread the word about us! We're going to get our name known on campus this year.

--T-shirts are finally coming! AAAH yay.

--Life is beautiful. And an adventure.


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Next meeting: Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 5:30pm. Location TBA
Next Event: National Public Lands Day, September 26th. See link at right (under profile) for details or click here.
Next Trip: Camping at Westbranch State Park, October 9-10th. Again, see the link at right for details or click here.

(if the links aren't active yet, they will be soon.)

Whoo! It's going to be a great semester!