Environmental organization of the year offers pancake breakfast Saturday TODAY

This Saturday Morning TODAY
March 1st, 2008
8:30 - 11am

Only $5!

At United Campus Ministries
902 W. Maple (corner of Storer and Maple), in Fayetteville

A fund-raiser at The OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology for its Carbon Caps Task Force.This Saturday Morning TODAY
March 1st, 2008
8:30 - 11am

Only $5!

At United Campus Ministries
902 W. Maple (corner of Storer and Maple), in Fayetteville


A fund-raiser at The OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology for its Carbon Caps Task Force. The OMNI Center was one of the founding organizations of the World Peace Wetland with a donation to the City of Fayetteville of one-fifth of the purchase price of the land. Omni has administered funds for WPWP for four years and now holds $5,000 from Friends of Fayetteville as a matching grant for trees to be planted at WPWP and other areas visible to the public. The Omni Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology was named Arkansas environmental organization of the year by the Arkansas Sierra Club and the Ozark Highlands Group of the Sierra Club.

Woodcock Day on World Peace Wetland Prairie was February 23, 2008.

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Lauren Hawkins worked on World Peace Wetland Prairie, removing honeysuckle roots and preparing the ground for a few transplants, on February 23 and 24, 2008. This year's official woodcock day turned out to be February 23.
Lauren reported jumping a woodcock near the south end of the central flow area of World Peace Wetland Prairie after Aubrey Shepherd went all the way to the west fence to try to get a photo of Canada geese that were honking and flying over Pinnacle Prairie. A woodcock near the fence jumped up behind Aubrey after he got to the fence.
Every year since 2005 when the 30 acres of wooded wetland and wetland prairie to the north was cleared for the Aspen Ridge townhome development, woodcock have been spotted on World Peace Wetland Prairie at some time during the fall, winter or spring. February 23, 2008, is now officially Woodcock Day 2008 at World Peace Wetland Prairie.
Others who jump the wonderful ground-oriented game birds that love to search for worms in the moist-soil thickets of WPWP are invited to share information and photos if they have them.
Hunters find woodcock an elusive target. Photographers have an even tougher time getting a photo of a woodcock in flight. They don't make a sound until they burst out of the brush and hands that don't shake when trying to focus on a woodcock in flight are few.

Aspen Ridge/Hill Place video this week on the CAT Channel 18 on Cox Cable

CAT channel 18 shows on Cox Cable this week with Town Branch short shows

Monday 2/18/08
4:35 pm Deirdre Shepherd Revisits Town Branch
Tuesday, 2/19/2008
7:30 pm Deirdre Shepherd Revisits Town Branch
Wednesday 2/20/08
4:35 pm Deirdre Shepherd Revisits Town Branch
Thursday, 2/21/2008
8:35 pm Deirdre Shepherd Revisits Town Branch

Dot Neely, the Outstanding Sierran of the Year 2008, visited people on the Fayetteville square often in 2007

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OMNI Center named Environmental Organization of the Year by Arkansas Sierra Club

For list of winners in several categories please click on link below"

Numerous Arkansans honored by Sierra Club

Sierra Club Conservation Awards Banquet at St. Paul's Episcopal Church begins at 6 p.m. Saturday, February 16, 2008

February 16, 2008


The Sierra Club Conservation Awards

Please join us as we honor Arkansas businesses, legislators, community organizations, and individuals who have made accomplishments in the way of conservation and protection of our state’s natural resources.
February 16, 2008
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church 
224 N East Ave.
Fayetteville AR.
 
Doors open for the Silent Auction at 6 pm. 
Dinner, provided by Greenhouse Grille, will be served at 6:30 pm. 
 
Ticket prices:
$25 in advance
$30 at the door
$15 Students

To reserve advance tickets, please mail your payment to the address below by February 9th. Make checks payable to OHG Sierra Club. For more informaion contact Molly Rawn @ 479.527.9499 or HYPERLINK "mailto:mrawn@uark.edu" mrawn@uark.edu.
Molly Rawn
1239 E Cain Dr
Fayetteville AR 72703

Final showing of neighbors visiting with developers on CAT public-access TV tonight

LAST CHANCE TO SEE REPLAY of Town Branch Neighborhood and Ward 1 meeting with developers planning to replace Aspen Ridge developers to create student housing in the Town Branch overflow area and former wetland west of South Hill Avenue between Sixth and Eleventh streets in south Fayetteville, Arkansas.
8:45 pm Friday Feb. 7, 2008 — Ward 1/Town Branch-Neighborhood Meeting on Cox Cable channel 18, Fayetteville Public Access Television, the CAT!
9:30 am Saturday Feb. 8, 2008— Talking about how the neighborhood used to be — Robert Williams on Town Branch Neighborhood — on Cox Cable channel 18, Fayetteville Public Access Television, the CAT!
Robert Williams, whose property on South Hill Avenue is bordered on the west by the Aspen Ridge dredged and filled wetland, spoke while looking northwest from the intersection of South Duncan Avenue and Eleventh Street where a wetland area dredged out for a future street on rainy days is called Aspen Bayou by people who drive by.

CAT TV 18 to feature Robert Williams talking Town Branch this week and rerun the meeting with developers

Town Branch Neighborhood will be featured several times this week on Cable Access Television, channel 18 on Cox Cable in Fayetteville.
2/6/08 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY Robert Williams on Town Branch Neighborhood
2/7/08 12 a.m. THURSDAY Ward 1/Town Branch Neighborhood meeting (That is MIDNIGHT Wednesday)
2/8/08 3:30 p.m. FRIDAY Robert Williams on Town Branch Neighborhood
2/8/08 8:45 p.m. FRIDAY Ward 1/Town Branch Neighborhood Meeting.
2/8/08 9:30 a.m. SATURDAY Robert Williams on Town Branch Neighborhood

Both shows were videotaped on January 12, 2008.
The Ward 1 Town Branch meeting ran from about 10 a.m. to noon and featured a description of the proposed Hill Place student apartments with questions and comments by neighbors and members of the City Council.
The interview with long-time Town Branch resident Robert Williams was taped that afternoon as Williams looked northwest across the Aspen Ridge/Hill Place development site and described and analyzed changes in the area during the past five years.