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Your Five Minute News Flash
Greenbelt Alliance * Volume 2, Issue 9: September
2003
September 2003 Photo-of-the-Month
Photographer: anonymous
 In
this edition
Feature: Smart Growth Event at the Commonwealth Club
Feature: One Great Hike...and One Hundred More
Feature:
Party in the Pumpkin Patch to Protect Fairfield Open Space
Feature: Sonoma Casino Controversy
Feature: Santa Clara County Environmental Forum
Feature: Greenbelt Alliance Origins—Moving
in New Directions
Office
News: New East Bay Field Representative
Upcoming Outings & Events
Smart
Growth Event at the Commonwealth Club
There are still a few seats left for the September 30
speech by former Maryland Governor and current President of the Smart
Growth Leadership Institute, Parris Glendening. Join us in this rare
opportunity to hear from a nationally renowned champion of smart growth!
One
Great Hike...and One Hundred More
Join us on Saturday October 18 when Anne Marie Brown, author of 101
Great Hikes of the Bay Area and other outdoor books, gives a slide
show of her favorite Bay Area trails and leads a hike along the Marin
Coast. Tickets are $10 for RSVPs before October 10th and $12 at the event.
Party
in the Pumpkin Patch to Protect Fairfield Open Space
Join us in
Fairfield on Sunday, October 5 at Glashoff's Pumpkin Patch in Suisun
Valley for a fundraiser to benefit the Yes On Measure L campaign.
Sonoma
Casino Controversy
Greenbelt Alliance opposes any type of development--casino or otherwise--on sensitive
bay
front
lands and other inappropriate places, while advocating for full environmental
reviews
at
any location where a casino might be built. Read our full position.
Santa
Clara County Environmental Forum
On October 9 in Palo Alto, Greenbelt Alliance is co-sponsoring a forum with The
Committee
for Green Foothills and Santa Clara Valley Audubon examining how environmental
practices
--
specifically
land
use planning -- affects city and county budgets in the long run.
Greenbelt
Alliance Origins: Moving in New Directions
2003 marks the forty-fifth anniversary of Greenbelt Alliance's
work to protect open space and promote livable communities. Throughout
this year we are highlighting our history in the Newswire.
New
East Bay Field Representative
Greenbelt Alliance is proud to welcome Lee Huo as the new East Bay Field Representative.
Upcoming
Outings & Events
September 30: Smart Growth Event at the Commonwealth Club
October 5: Party in the Pumpkin Patch to Protect Fairfield Open Space
October 9: Santa Clara County Environmental Forum
October 18: One Great Hike...And One Hundred More: Greenbelt
Benefit Outing
October 25: High on Mt. Hood: Greenbelt Outing
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a Member
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away! Your membership gives us the means to protect open space and promote
livable communities. Start creating a better future for the Bay Area now.
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