75th Anniversary

Francisca A. Casals, Nyack High School

RCCA Award Co-Chairs, Faith Leigh, Jeanne Nelson

Overview of PIPC activities

Carol Ash, Executive Director
Palisades Interstate Park Commission

Your continued membership and contributions are greatly appreciated and necessary for RCCA to carry on its work.  Please invite a friend to join. 

Thank you   

Environmental conservation begins at home with service that strengthens our local communities.

Francisca A. Casals is the year 2005 recipient of the Rockland County Conservation Association’s Eleanor Burlingham Award. Graduating this year from Nyack High School, she has devoted herself to projects of concern to our Rockland home community.

Mentored by Nyack’s teacher of Advanced Placement Environmental Studies Tom Perry, Francisca has embraced the project to get the Long Path of New York-New Jersey Trail Conference off heavily trafficked state road Route 9W in Upper Nyack and re-routed over terrain of West Hook Mountain. She has hiked the area again and again to learn its topography. She has written letters to Town Board members and met with officials to encourage the purchase of the remaining parcels of land there to preserve open space.

Francisca says, “I am interested in peoples’ relationship to the environment”. She was galvanized by the opportunity to promote the Long Path’s move to preserve the mountain’s historic vistas for continuous public enjoyment.

Convinced of the need for mandated open space, she says, “What I like least about Rockland County’s environment is the development everywhere you look. Environmental groups need to obtain as much land as possible or convince towns to buy it for conservation.We need to continue preserving the undeveloped land that already exists.”

How has Francisca arrived at this focus? “My mother loves the outdoors so our vacations have consisted of walks, hikes, and kayaking adventures. Through kayaking, my interest in marine biology grew and I studied it on my own until after the sixth grade when I took a summer course in oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.”

The need to preserve open space and plan development with protective conservation in mind has led her to “thinking about a career in environmental law”.   MR. Perry says, “I believe that Francisca will stay involved with environmental preservation for her whole life.”

As Francisca graduates from Nyack, she looks forward to a summer in service with Americorps. Jeanne Nelson, Director at Large

 

ATTENTION ALL RCCA ARTISTS

Get ready to celebrate RCCA’s 75^th Anniversary

“ARTISTS OF THE ROCKLAND COUNTY CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION”

We need your work to make this show exciting, so come join us – everyone.

                                                 Where:  Pomona Cultural Center

                                                When:   Sunday, September 18^th, 2005 – 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.

                                                Who:     Members of RCCA

                                                What:    Paintings, drawings, photography, ceramics, sculpture

                                                How:     Register by September 3 (The earlier the better!) 

·    All work must be framed, wired and ready to hang.

·    Deliver work on Friday, September 9; Saturday, September 10; Sunday, September 11;
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. to the Pomona Cultural Center, 584 Route 306, Pomona, NY.

·    Tjok Gde Arsa Artha, Center Director, and Faith Leigh will accept your work and sign it in.

·    The Center phone number is (845) 362-8062.

·    Reception is Sunday, September 18, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.

·    Pickup and sign out is Sunday, October 23, from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.

·    Work is not to be removed before the show closes.

·    ALL WORK SUBMITTED IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ARTIST.

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ARTISTS OF THE ROCKLAND COUNTY CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION EXHIBIT 

Registration: (No later than September 3, 2005)

 

1.      Artist’s name, address, phone: _______________________________________________
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2.      Title of piece being submitted (only one piece allowed): __________________________
________________________________________________________________________

3.      Medium and size of work (size limit 36” x 30”):_________________________________
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Please mail information to: Faith Leigh, RCCA 1^st Vice President, 340 Haverstraw Road, Suffern, NY 10901, (845) 357-1166

 

RCCA  Newsletter – Dorice Madronero

Distribution – RCCA Board Members

We share with our membership, RCCA’s tribute to Betty Hedges on May 26, 2005, for her dedicated service as President.

To Betty Hedges, President of RCCA for Twenty Years:

 Upon your retirement, we extend our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation  

for your steadfast leadership and passion for awakening the truth about simply being the best that each of us can be.

 With your guidance and commitment the Rockland County Conservation Association has taken on many challenges that make a difference to the health and well being of Rockland’s residents and environment.  Your respect for honoring what is good has inspired many to realize that actions taken with the pursuit of meaningful intentions are significant. 

 With best wishes,

The Board of Directors Rockland County Conservation Association

May 26, 2005            

^{Seventy–Fifth Anniversary 1930-2005}

^{Sunrise at Torne, Ramapo, New York}

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