[Bristol-Birds] Lloyd Jones' church to host BBC Banquet-- TNC speakers for program !

From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:59:41 -0400
Nature Conservancy Features Speakers
for Bristol Bird Club Sept. 19 Banquet

Two outstanding regional representatives of The Nature Conservancy
will be the featured guests of the Bristol Bird Club when members
gather for the club's annual banquet coming up in just three weeks.

The event is open to all birders and their guests
from across the region.  

The BBC is extremely proud to announce that
this year's banquet will be hosted by none other
than a former club treasurer, the Rev. Lloyd Jones, and the good ladies
of the Addilyn Memorial United Methodist Church in Bristol, TN.

The banquet will be held on Friday, September 19, 7:00 p.m.   The
church is located just two blocks off the Volunteer Parkway and one
mile north of the Mad Greek Restaurant.  

The meal will be $13 per person and more details will be announced
this week.

            Gabby Call, who for 15 years, has been the Conservancy'spoint 
            person for a variety of initiatives, projects and lobbying, both at 
the 
            state and national levels, will be the featured speaker.  She has 
been 
            at her new assignment at her office in Shady Valley for nearly four 
months.  
            She now makes her home near Mountain City. 

            Call left her position as the state chapter's Associate
            State Director in the Nashville headquarters.  From that position
            she has, for most of her tenure, been deeply involved in the
            wetlands acquisition and restoration. 

            From the Shady Valley office, she serves as the 
            TNC Chapter's East Tennessee Conservation Manager.

            She will present a PowerPoint presentation on the work and
            focus of TNC and many of the exciting new projects now underway
            in the region and in her work area.

            The meeting will mark renewed focus for birders in Shady Valley on
            The Nature Conservancy's lands.  Gabby brings a new era for 
            conservation and birding partnerships in the valley.

            Gabby Call's background and experiences are diverse and valued in
            TNC.  She has served as the Director of Protection for the state and
            Conservation Projects Manager for the state chapter.

            Gabby Call is very familiar with birding and her knowledge of birds
            in the region is more than entirely casual.  She was the main person
            for The Nature Conservancy's funding of the Bristol Bird Club's
            Bird Study in Shady Valley, Tennessee published by the club in 
            1999 and authored by Wallace Coffey and John Shumate.

            Following her presentation,  there will be brief remarks regarding
            the exciting things The Nature Conservancy is doing throughout
            Western North Carolina, including the highlands of Roan Mountain.

            TNC Northwest Mountains Protection Specialist Merrill Lynch, who
            is heading up the TNC new field office at Boone, NC will follow-up 
            with a few remarks about the work in nearby North Carolina.  He
            is an active birder in Western Carolina.

            TNC's local office will allow it to focus efforts more effectively 
as 
            they work to build on the conservation foundation which involves
            Big Yellow Mountain in Avery County; TNC and the Southern
            Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. TNC also has 701 acres 
            at Bluff Mountain in Ashe County near West Jefferson. TNC is also
            protecting important property in Watauga County including almost 
            4,000 acres at Grandfather Mountain and more than 2,274 acres 
            at Elk Knob.

            Although the TNC Boone office is new, Lynch has spent much of 
            the past 20 years working in the area, commuting from the NC 
            Chapter's main office in Durham. 

            This is going to be one or our more fascinating and informative
            banquet programs.  Hold the evening of Sept. 19 on your calendars
            and plan to be with BBC.

            Let's go birding......

            Wallace Coffey
            Bristol, TN
[Bristol-Birds] Lloyd Jones' church to host BBC Banquet-- TNC speakers for program !

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