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Delaware Audubon members and friends are invited to our Annual Meeting and social in Dover to honor Citizens for Clean Power. The meeting and award presentation will begin at 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 18 in the ballroom of the Schwartz Center for the Arts, 226 S. State Street, Dover. Tickets are $30 per person. All Delaware Audubon members, friends, and supporters are welcome. You can register online by clicking here. You may also register by mailing in the form in this month's newsletter (available as a PDF file here). Please respond by Wednesday, May 14. A buffet luncheon will include boneless herbed breast of chicken, vegetable lasagna, herb roasted new potatoes, a fresh vegetable medley, tossed salad, and cheesecake with fruit topping. The meeting will also feature a new National Audubon Society presentation about global climate change, and its relationship to alternative energy. Additional program details will be announced soon. A very short business meeting will include a report from our conservation chair and election of new Board members. Delaware Audubon's annual Conservation Award will be presented to the executive committee of the Citizens for Clean Power, a grassroots Sussex County organization dedicated to supporting clean, renewable energy. Members of the Executive Committee, who will be honored, include Kit and Bill Zak, Pat Gearity, Nancy Feichtl, Kim Furtado, Connie Peterson, John Austin, and Charlie Dunham. This is the first time the Delaware Audubon Conservation Award has gone to an organization. Citizens for Clean Power is a true citizen action group, founded by residents of Sussex County to work toward clean, renewable energy resources in Delaware. The group has been leading efforts to get the nation's first offshore wind farm established off the coast of Delaware. Kit Zak, one of the founders of Citizens for Clean Power, was quoted on National Public Radio: "I would love to see those windmills out there, because it would mean we were moving away from global warming and we were doing something progressive and something for the future generations." Click here for a list of previous Conservation Award recipients. The annual silent auction will be held during the meeting. Funds raised will be used to support Delaware Audubon's environmental action and education programs. Parking and Directions: Ample free parking is available in the adjacent Citizens Bank parking lot and other lots within a two-block radius of the building. On-street parking is available on The Green and Loockerman Street. There is handicapped parking directly adjacent to the building. Directions are available on the Schwartz Center website, or you can enter your address below for Mapquest directions.
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