News from the
Center
Help! Earth Funds
The stock market isn't the only thing that is down, so are
the funds for our area Earth Day activities. If you haven't
already contributed, please consider a dontaion, every
dollar helps.
We hope that you'll be able to contribute to make this the best Earth Day celebration ever. Unlike other large festivals, we do not have a corporate sponsor (the Coca Cola All Species Parade just doesn't seem right . . .) so we need your help. Your checks, large and small, are appreciated, and are tax deductible.
Businesses who contribute $100 or more will be listed in a special "thank you" ad in the Record Eagle and will be listed on our web site. Please make checks to the Neahtawanta Center.
Center Board Meeting
Spring Board of Directors meeting was held March 3rd. In
attendance were: Sally Van Vleck, Bob Russell, Dave and Mary
Ann Reinhart, Bob Tinker, Sally Neal, Sandi McArthur, Jeff
Anderson, Ruth Carey, Jim Crowfoot, David (Grips) Krumlauf,
Joan D'Argo, Dottie Williams.
Mini-Bioneers Conference:
We have decided to host a "mini" Bioneers Conference in
June, 2002. The Bioneers is a national organization that
hosts an annual conference and is encouraging regional
conferences. We will be looking for a small grant to help
with this project. The concept is to bring together speakers
and workshop leaders in various areas who are working on
positive, restorative projects to bring us back in balance
with nature. We talked about what region we would be
targeting for participants, but need to do more thinking
about this.
Media Project
The Center will sponsor a news program on tctv2, the area's
public access cable channel. We will assemble a working
group of creative people who will help produce the content
for this program. The program will have a flexible format
consisting of different segments anchored by Bob Russell and
others that may include, but not be limited to: a critique
of the corporate media news reporting (mostly local), in
context--a segment that puts news stories in better
perspective, a GAG skit, in-depth news stories, interviews
and editorial commentary.
The show will be scheduled for the same day and time each week to help build an audience. The Center will promote the show with press releases, paid advertisements, the Internet, email lists and postal mailings to selected lists.
The program will attempt to produce stories and information that has local context. The stories and information will be about issues that affect our local community, either directly or indirectly and that the community may be able to effect. Examples of what we will not cover would be a house fire in some distant state that killed small children. We might cover a local house fire in a rental property where the fire started because the landlord didn't maintain smoke alarms.
If you would like to be involved in this project please call us at the Center, (231) 223-7315 or email center@nrec.org
For more information: www.nrec.org/media