We have had to cancel our March, April, and May public program meetings. It is possible all three will be re-scheduled. We still have scheduled program meetings about The Ducks of Southern Illinois, The Native American perspective on Conservation, and one entitled “Buried in Plastic”.
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At this time, it cannot be known if the SWIC Red Bud campus will be available as a public venue for these meetings, so we will be looking for an alternative, temporary location for those meetings, in hopes that SWIC will still be available.
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The board met at the end of May and discussed the annual June planning meeting and decided to postpone it to Saturday, July 19th, to still be held at the Randolph County Conservation park, as long as that venue is still available. We will be practicing social distancing and wearing face coverings, if prudent to do so, based on public health recommendations. Also, regrettably, we’ll need to do BYOMD (bring your own meal and drinks), with no shared food.
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The start time will be 9:30 am for those who’d like to take a walk around part of the park road system, rather than a hiking trail (due to more profuse vegetation at this time of year). Let’s aim to start lunch at about 11:30, with an aim to complete the meeting with a discussion on planning for conservation and education 2021. This will include scheduling events to recognize the 25th anniversary of the chapter’s founding.