[BCNnet] Chicago Audubon Environmental Awards Banquet, April 20th, honoring 10 individuals (including Joe Lill) and 5 groups, plus Sheryl and Steve on Birds of Thailand (no sightings) join us!

[casresearch at comcast.net]

10 area conservationists and 5 groups will be honored next Saturday, April 20 th , for their service in protecting, preserving and managing natural habitat, educating area residents about local wildlife and the environment, and otherwise helping Chicago Audubon Society as well as all of 'Chicago Wilderness'. It’s always an enjoyable evening, the Award Recipients are certainly deserving, and Steve and Sheryl always present very entertaining and interesting programs. Hope a number of you can join us!   

Details (see Award Recipients below): 

Chicago Audubon Biennial Environmental Awards Banquet, Saturday, April 20. 
This Awards dinner will be held to honor people from many walks of life who have been chosen by the Chicago Audubon Society for their contributions to conservation and birding in the Chicago-land area. The Banquet will be held at the Silver Stallion Restaurant in Des Plaines . Dinner will begin at 6:00 p.m. (cash bar opens at 5:30 p.m.). Dinner entrée choices   are chicken, salmon, or vegetarian*. The evening’s program, Birds of Thailand , will be presented by Steven Bailey and Sheryl DeVore. The Silver Stallion Restaurant is located at 1275 Lee/Manheim Avenues in Des Plaines (between Algonquin and Oakton) - http://desplaines.patch.com/listings/silver-stallion-restaurant. Contact Alan Anderson at casresearch at comcast.net to reserve a dinner or if you have questions. Everyone is welcome! 

See www.chicagoaudubon.org for more information.  
  

AWARD RECIPIENTS (and categories) in 2013 are:  

Service to Chicago Area Birders 

 Joe Lill, Lister’s Corner, CAS Birdathon, Past-President Chicago Audubon 

  

Excellence in Environmental Reporting  

Barbara Brotman, Chicago Tribune    

  

Protector of the Environment—Educator  

David Brooks, Naturalist, Spring Valley Nature Center 

John Elliott, retired, Naturalist, Forest Preserve District of Cook Co. 

  

Protector of the Environment—Political Service   

Ann Maine, President, Lake County Forest Preserve District 

  

Protector of the Environment, Group  

Friends of the Chicago River (Margaret Frisbie, Director) 

  

Protector of the Environment—Single Act (individual avocation)  

Sonny Cohen (protecting/enhancing natural habitat at Ft. Sheridan Forest Preserve) 

  

Protector of the Environment—Single Act (individuals -   
  vocation)   

Steve Silic and Jim Phillips, Fisheries Biologists, Forest Preserve District of Cook County 

  

Protector of the Environment—Single Act (group)   

Friends of Hackmatack (helping make Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge a reality 

  

Protector of the Environment—Avocation 

Wayne Svoboda, volunteer at NPVNC, past-President, Ft. Dearborn Chapter, Illinois Audubon Society 

  

Protector of the Environment—Vocation  

Fran Harty, The Nature Conservancy and formerly of Illinois Department of Natural Resources 

  

First Friend of Chicago Audubon  

North Park University (association with CAS on a number of Birding America conferences) 

  

CAS Good Business Neighbor   

Good Earth Greenhouse and Café, River Forest (pick-up location for CAS fall Bird Seed sales 

  

For a list of previous award recipients (from 1977 on), go to 

http://www.chicagoaudubon.org/EnvironmentalAwards.shtml 

  

Alan Anderson, casresearch at comcast.net , Des Plaines  
   

  

Banquet cost is $32 per person. * you can pay online now also at https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=343c41   




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