MAY MEETING AT S. EUCLID COMMUNITY CENTER
Please join us on Tuesday, May 7 at 6:30 pm for our next Friends of Euclid Creek meeting. This month we will be meeting back at South Euclid Community Center.
Our program for the evening will be the results of our strategic planning process. A great deal of time and creative work went into the process by the Board and a few other FOEC members. The planning process helped us see where we have been, where we are and where we hope to go.
After the presentation and discussion, let's have some fun and see how much you know about the watershed with a little Euclid Creek Jeopardy.
APRIL MEETING CONCERNS DEER OVERPOPULATION
Our Wednesday, April 3 meeting is a joint meeting with the Highland Heights Green Task force. Note the departure from our usual time and place to cover this important topic.
- Who is the speaker: Geoffrey Westerfield, ODNR,
Division of Wildlife - What is the topic: Deer Overpopulation
- When: Wednesday, April 3, 7:00 PM
- Where: Highland Heights Community Center,
5827 Highland Road
- Judy Dearden - President of the Highland Heights Green Task Force - at hhgreentaskforce@yahoo.com (or)
- Jeanette Evans at jeanette.evans@sbcglobal.net
Please volunteer for the April 27 tree planting in Richmond Heights.
Streamside Tree Planting in Richmond Heights
Saturday, April 27 9:00am-1:00pm Richmond Heights City Hall
Help Reforest Richmond Heights! ReLeaf partners and volunteers will plant more than a hundred trees, some large, some small, along 770 feet of Claribel Creek, a tributary to the East Branch Euclid Creek in Richmond Heights.
Volunteers are needed for all kinds of work - planting, mulching, donut-distribution and more.
To volunteer, or for more information, please contact Cathi Lehn at 216-241-2414 x307, or email lehnc@crcpo.org.
MAY PLANT PULL AND GARDEN SERVICE DAY
Euclid Creek Invasive Plant Pull Event and FOEC Bioswale Garden Service Day
Saturday, May 11 10:00am—noon Wildwood State Park, Cleveland
Volunteers are needed to help remove invasive garlic mustard.
Contact Claire Posius, cposius@cuyahogaswcd.org or 216-524-6580 x16 for more info.
Join us at 9:00am in main parking lot by Marina to learn about the bioswale and help with maintaining the garden,
BEACHWOOD GREEN DREAM IS APRIL 19
We are looking for volunteers for Friday, April 19, noon to 7PM. Please let me know at jeanette.evans@sbcglobal.net if you can help with our FOEC table.
See http://entrovation.com/ for information about how this year the Beachwood Green Dream is now called Entrovation.
EARTH DAY ACTIVITIES IN APRIL
Please let me know at jeanette.evans@sbcglobal.net if you would like details on our activities related to Earth Day at Philips Medical and Rockwell Automation.
See http://earthday.org for details about the April 22, 2013, event worldwide.
MARCH STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
The March steering committee meeting took place at the South Euclid Community Center on March 20. The following are meeting notes. Present were Ginny Aveni, Gary Bloom, Rick Evans, Jeanette Evans, Ken Messenger-Rapport, Barb Holtz, Lou Drassler, Christi Carlson, Carolyn Suguichi, and Bill McFarland.
Finance committee update
Ginny updated on the work of the finance committee.
Structure of FOEC
Barb presented a plan for discussion of a structure for the organization.
Strategic planning next steps
Tom Romito has not yet provided additional notes.
Claire's list of upcoming events
Christi plans to bring the lists with her to the April meeting
Newsletter
We discussed the timetable of the next newsletter.
Other
We discussed a contribution to the Audobon Society in honor of Tom Romito and Brian Gilbert's plant identification project. We plan to discuss Frank's ideas on membership and Jeanette's input on the scholarship at upcoming meetings.
APRIL STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
We met at the South Euclid Library. Barb called the meeting to order around 6:30 PM on April 17. In attendance were Jeanette Evans, Rick Evans, Fran Hogg, Claire Posius, Bill McReynolds, Barb Holtz, Judy Dearden, Christi Carlson, Carolyn Suguichi, Gary Bloom, Steve Albro, Ken Rapport, Frank Skala, and guest Ann Kent.
APRIL STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
We met at the South Euclid Library. Barb called the meeting to order around 6:30 PM on April 17. In attendance were Jeanette Evans, Rick Evans, Fran Hogg, Claire Posius, Bill McReynolds, Barb Holtz, Judy Dearden, Christi Carlson, Carolyn Suguichi, Gary Bloom, Steve Albro, Ken Rapport, Frank Skala, and guest Ann Kent.
Announcements
Barb noted that the News Herald included an item about our fund raiser.
Strategic planning
Barb introduced Ann Kent of the Center for Non Profit Excellence. We discussed the state of the draft of the strategic plan and board structure. The May meeting should include Barb presenting the group with an update on this plan. Ann mentioned work with seven watershed groups to include Doan Brook, Euclid Creek, Chagrin River, Rocky River, West Creek, Tinker's Creek, and Big Creek.
Fundraising
We discussed our current campaign including letters that went out with Christi providing details.
Events
Claire requested volunteer help with events coming up.
THANK YOU FOR VISITING
The photo comes from Daniel Hancock, a winner in our last photo contest. Thank you for visiting FOEC News. We are now over 13,300 views as of April 17, 2013.
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