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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Evanston</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Clark</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Street</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Beach</st1:placetype></st1:place> Bird Habitat Restoration Project </strong><strong>Community Meeting<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Wednesday, April 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>6:30 to
8:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Subject:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Evanston</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Clark</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Street</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Beach</st1:placetype></st1:place> Bird Habitat
Restoration Project <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black;">When <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Northwestern</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> built its new visitor center
last year at the southeast end of its campus, it took out a piece of weedy but
well-used habitat known to local birders as a nice little migrant trap. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">To compensate for that loss, this
project is designed to restore the area used by migratory birds that was
disrupted by the construction as well as to enhance and expand the bird habitat
area at the northwest border of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Clark</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Street</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Beach</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">We urge </span>you <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">to attend the meeting and share your feedback.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your presence will show your support for
birds and your comments will help shape the restoration design concepts for the
area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m.
with a tour of the current bird habitat located on the north end of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Clark</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Street</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Beach</st1:placetype></st1:place>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following the tour, a presentation and
discussion will begin at 7 p.m. at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">John</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Evans</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Alumni</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">1800 Sheridan Rd.</st1:street>, <st1:city w:st="on">Evanston</st1:city></st1:address>.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">To see a graphic of the proposed
restoration area and for more info:</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://evanstonnow.com/feed-item/bill-smith/2015-03-30/69530/meeting-set-on-bird-habitat-restoration">http://evanstonnow.com/feed-item/bill-smith/2015-03-30/69530/meeting-set-on-bird-habitat-restoration</a></b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Suzanne Checchia</b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Evanston<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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