SUASCO
WATERSHED CALENDAR:
NOVEMBER
INTO DECEMBER 2008
This calendar is provided courtesy
of the SuAsCo Watershed Community Council.
Its purpose is to publicize meetings on issues of interest to the SuAsCo
Watershed community. Effort is made to
include all appropriate items of which we are aware.
EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. PLEASE CHECK BEFORE ATTENDING AN EVENT. Unless otherwise specified, please call the SuAsCo Watershed Community Council at 978-461-0735. For continual calendar updates, please visit the Council’s website at www.suasco.org
November 1: Community Preservation Act (CPA) Conference: 8:30
AM to 2:30 PM at the Essex
Agricultural and
November 4: Voting Day
November
5: NYANZA Restoration Planning Meeting to
describe and discuss restoration project ideas – meeting is hosted by the MA
Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, US Fish & Wildlife
Service, and National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration: 7:00 PM in Nevins Hall, first floor of the
Framingham Memorial Hall,
November 6: WSCAC Meeting: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the MWRA Facility in Southborough – for more information, please call 508-872-4388 – pre-registration required
November 6-7: “Resolving
Land Use Disputes”: 9:00 AM to
5:00 PM at the
Doyle Conservation Center, Leominster - sponsored by The Trustees of
Reservations’ Putnam Conservation Institute, Consensus Building Institute, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,
Land Trust Alliance, MA Assoc. for
Conservation Commissions, Mount Wachusett
Community College, Partnership for Latino Success, University of Massachusetts Extension
– for more information or to register, call 888-845-8759 or e-mail lincolninstitute@resource-plus.com
November
7: SuAsCo Watershed Community Council
RIVER VISIONS “Mailing Party: 4:30 PM
until done AM at SuAsCo office, 118 Great Road, Stow – all volunteers welcome –
pizza, desserts and refreshments will be served - for more information, please
call Nancy Bryant at SuAsCo WCC at 978-461-0735
November
10: SuAsCo Watershed Community Council
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Meeting: 4:00 to
6:00 PM at SuAsCo office,
November
12:
November 12: Citizen Planner Training Collaborative
Training Session on Chapter 40B
Affordable Housing: 7:00 PM at
November
12: Public Forum on Responding to
Climate Change: 7:30 PM at the Alcott School Auditorium, 93 Laurel Street,
Concord – forum is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle,
ConcordCAN, Carlisle Climate Action, Concord Land
Conservation Trust, Concord Conserves, and the Sierra Club – for more
information, visit www.lwvcc.com
November 18:
November
18: Sudbury-Assabet-Concord
Wild and Scenic River Stewardship Council Meeting: 7:00 to 9:00 PM at Sudbury Valley Trustees’
office, 18 Wolbach Road, Sudbury – for more
information, please call Lee Steppacher at National Park Service at
617-223-5225
November
18-20: “Build Boston” convention and
trade show for design, building and management professionals at the
November
19:
November
19: Lowell Parks & Conservation
Trust Exhibit Opening Reception and Annual Meeting: 6:30 to 8:30 PM at the Boott Gallery, Boott Cotton Mills
Museum, 115 John Street, Lowell – the exhibit is entitled “Confluence” and
features a multi-panel drawing of the SuAsCo Watershed and multi-lingual
wayside panels on the community, industrial, and natural history stories of
Lowell’s Concord River corridor – the exhibit will also be open on Saturdays
and Sundays from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM from November 22 through December 14
November 19: Friends
of the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge Meeting with guest speaker Strickland
Wheelock and Kathy Clayton-Seymour talking on “Saw-whet Owl Banding in
Massachusetts - What we Know and What we Don't”: 7:00 PM at the Great Meadows
National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center, Weir Hill Road, Sudbury - for more information, please call Barbara
Volkle at 508-393-9251
November 21: MetroWest Growth Management Committee Legislative Breakfast: 7:45 to 9:30 AM at the Sheraton Framingham - for more information and to pre-register, please contact Andrew Flanagan at 508-620-6677 or AFlanagan@mapc.org
November 21: Talk on Global Warming by renown
environmental author and speaker Bill McKibben: 7:30PM at the Trinitarian Congregational Church,
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Looking
ahead into November:
December
2: MetroFuture
at the MAPC Council Meeting: 7:30 to 11:30 AM at the Hyatt Regency Hotel
Marquis Room, One Avenue de Lafayette,
December 3:
December 5: WSCAC Meeting on Climate Change
with presentation by Gary Heath, NYC DEP:
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the MWRA Facility in
Southborough – for more information and to pre-register, please call
508-872-4388
December 6: River Visions 2008 Tenth Annual Watershed Forum: “Greening the SuAsCo Watershed: LEED, LID and Other Tools for Responding to Climate Change”: 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM at Clock Tower Place, Maynard - for more information and to pre-register “very early” by Nov. 26 or “early” by Dec. 1, please call Nancy Bryant at SuAsCo WCC at 978-461-0735 or visit www.suasco.org
December
6: “Polar Bear Plunge” into Walden Pond
to Fight Global Warming: 2:00 PM at Walden Pond,
December
8: MAGIC Legislative Breakfast: 8:00 to 10:30 AM at the
December 8: MetroWest Growth
Management Committee Regionalism Breakfast: 8:00 AM at the Morse Library,
December
15: SuAsCo Watershed Community Council
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Meeting: 5:00 to
7:00 PM at SuAsCo office,
December
18: Sudbury-Assabet-Concord
Wild and Scenic River Stewardship Council Meeting: 7:00 to 9:00 PM at Sudbury Valley Trustees’
office,
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