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ANNUAL MEETING - Thursday May 4, 2006
Program
Co-sponsored by Rockland Community College
Place: The
United Church Of Spring Valley-Mendum Room
East Church Street at Centre, Spring Valley, New York
Parking behind Church in Memorial Park
Please use front door of church
10:30 AM
- Environmental Reports and Elections (slate, page2)
11:15 AM
- Program: A WORLD OF WILDFLOWERS
Carol Weiss began looking for wildflowers more than 30 years ago,
along the Pascack Creek near Pearl River. She’s continued to look
wherever she goes. Her travels have taken her to Arizona and Argentina,
South Carolina and Spain, Iceland and Estonia, and many other states
and countries. There are wildflowers everywhere. With slides, Carol
will hop around the world, dazzling the eye with color and style.
One the way she’ll mention immigrants, aliens, and invasives. The
slide program will conclude with spring flowers in Rockland County.
Carol is also
a birder and is active in the Rockland Audubon Society and the Palisades
Interstate Park League of Naturalists. Before she retired, she was
a teacher.
*Lunch
will be provided by the Board of Directors*
RCCA
MEMBERSHIP 2006
Special thanks to our members, those renewing and those joining
for the first time. Your dues and contributions provide the income
for this nonprofit, volunteer organization. Your support is most
encouraging and greatly appreciated.
RCCA
Board of Directors
Report
of the Nominating Committee
- Diane Gruskin, Chair
In Accordance with Article X of the By-Laws, the following slate is
proposed:
Term of two (2) years
First
Vice President-Faith Leigh
Third Vice President-Chuck
Stead
Treasurer-Eloise
Litman
Secretary-Helen
Hannigan
Director Ramapo-Geoffrey
Welch
Director Haverstraw-Frank
Leonard
Assistant Director
Clarkstown-Joan King
Assistant Director Stony Point-Michael Diederich
Directors at Large - Term of one (1) year
Bill
Chase
Cynthia McKenney
Jeanne Nelson
Robert Nelson
Continuing
in Office
President-Dorice
Madronero
Second Vice President-Diane Gruskin
Directors:
Zipporah Fleisher
Catherine Dodge
Doris Metraux
Julius Levine
President
Emeritus-Betty Hedges
Honorary
Members:
Earl Gordon
Ira Hedges
Elly Wane
Malcolm Wane
Thanks to
the generosity of our members, the board of directors at its March
21st meeting raised the amount of the Eleanor Burlingham Award
for 2006 to $1,000.00. The information below tells about the award.
Any members knowing of graduating seniors who may qualify should
direct them to their principal for an application or contact a
committee member for one.
ELEANOR
BURLINGHAM AWARD
~Applications
Are in County’s High Schools Now~
~ Available to Area’s Graduating Seniors~
Applications
for the $1000.00 Eleanor Burlingham Award, sponsored by the Rockland
County Conservation Association, Inc., are available through the
principals’ offices at all county high schools or from RCCA Award
Committee.
The annual
award is presented to a graduating senior from a Rockland County
high school who has demonstrated a cumulative interest and achievement
in environmental conservation during his or her school years.
It is given in memory of Mrs. Burlingham, a former RCCA president
and a long-time environmental activist.
Interested
students are urged to consult their principals and scholarship/award
coordinators since applications must be postmarked no later than
Monday, May, 8, 2006.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DIANE GRUSKIN
Diane Gruskin
has been selected by the Environmental Volunteer Award Committee
to receive the County Executive's Ninth Annual Outstanding Environmental
Volunteer Award for 2006.
MERCURY
SEPARATORS REQUIRED
According
to the press release from the Governor’s Office of Regulatory
Reform, March 1, 2006… “The dental amalgam regulations prohibit
the possession and use of non-encapsulated elemental mercury in
dental offices and require dentists to recycle any elemental mercury
or dental amalgam waste generated in their offices in accordance
with today's approved regulations. The regulations establish waste
management standards for dental facilities that use encapsulated
mercury or generate mercury-containing dental amalgam wastes.
To help minimize the release of mercury from wastewater and maximize
recycling, the regulations require dentists to install, properly
operate and maintain mercury amalgam separation and collection
equipment, which is designed to remove 99 percent of the mercury-containing
waste amalgam in rinse or wastewater from chairside collection
and discharge systems.” (http://www.gorr.state.ny.us/03-21-06-press-release-merc-regs.htm)
Newsletter-Dorice
Madronero Distribution- Faith Leigh, Betty Hedges
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