Marin Group events

Annual Awards Banquet

Friday, October 6, 6 pm - cocktails, 7 - dinner, Spinnaker Restaurant, 100 Spinnaker Drive, Sausalito.

Join the Sierra Club Marin Group at its Annual Awards Banquet.

Peter Douglas, executive director of the California Coastal Commission, will speak on "Hope, Reverence, and Environmental Activism".

Our 2006 awards go to the following.

• Mary Jo Rice, Resource Conservation Award. Mary Jo, a long-time Fairfax activist, is executive director of Seaflow. The organization works to protect marine mammals from Navy sonar.
• Nancy K. Young, Hannah Creighton Environmental Justice Award. Nancy serves elementary-school children from diverse communities throughout the Bay Area through the Audubon Canyon Ranch Elementary School Environmental Education Program.

Master of ceremonies will be Dick Spotswood, Independent-Journal political columnist.

Advance reservations are required. Checks should be payable to the "Sierra Club Marin Group" and either sent to Michele Barni at:

P.O. Box 4
San Quentin, CA 94964

or brought to the door.

Regular tickets are $65 per person and include soup, choice of fish or chicken, dessert, and wine. For reservations or more information, contact Michele Barni, (415)453-4162, or dmmes -at- sbcglobal.net or Marjorie Macris, (415)381-6667 or mmacris -at- aol.com

More information is also available at: http://sanfranciscobay.sierraclub.org/Marin/events.htm

Open house at Blair/Goodwin Gallery

Sunday, September 17, 3 - 6 pm, 371 Drakes View Drive, Inverness.

Richard Blair and Kathleen Goodwin, authors of Point Reyes Visions, have generously agreed to donate half of their event sales, of photos and paintings, to the Marin Group's Redwood Landfill Campaign.

For directions, see their web site: www.pointreyesvisions.com

For information about the Redwood Landfill campaign, see: http://sanfranciscobay.sierraclub.org/Marin/DOC/Issue_RedwoodLandfill_Smith_060206.pdf

For more event information, call Gordon at (415)663-1881.

Public Lands Day - habitat restoration at Point Reyes

Saturday, September 30, 10 am - 3 pm; meet at visitor center on Bear Valley Road, Point Reyes National Seashore.

We'll drive to Abbots Lagoon parking lot; easy half-mile walk to join with Seashore staff to pull invasive beach grass and create snowy-plover habitat. Drop in for a couple of hours and then go hiking, or come for the entire time. Bring lunch and wear layered clothes. Water and gloves are provided.

For more information on Public Lands Day, see: www.publiclandsday.org<

For more event information call Gordon at (415)663-1881.