January 10, 2008
Dear TLC Members
and Friends,
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1. TLC Tops 10,000 Acres with Year-End Project Closings
2. TLC In the News
3. TLC's 25th Anniversary Gala - Friday, February 29, 2008
4. January Member of the Month – Don Stephenson
5. Help build a trail at Johnston Mill Nature Preserve
6. TLC Friends honored as Tar Heel of the Year and Tar Heel of the Week
7. Nature Quiz
1. TLC Tops 10,000 Acres with Year-End Project Closings
As TLC prepares to celebrate its 25-year anniversary in 2008, several year-end projects brought the organization to a major milestone: 10,000 acres of land protected since 1983. TLC reached this landmark by significantly increasing its pace of conservation. By the year 2000, TLC had conserved 2,000 acres in 17 years. In the last seven years, the group has conserved 8,000 acres to reach the 10,000-acre mark. Much of TLC’s success over the last seven years can be attributed to increased funding opportunities through North Carolina’s conservation trust funds: the Clean Water Management Trust Fund, the Natural Heritage Trust Fund and the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund. Click on the headlines below to read about three of the year-end project closings:
* TLC Acquires Conservation Land along Rocky River in White Pines Region
* Conservation Partnership on Pickard's Mountain Grows
* TLC and Bryan Properties Conserve 299 more acres in northern Durham County
2. TLC in the News
Sometimes, even good news travels fast. Check out the latest news from the TLC Press Room.
3. TLC's 25th Anniversary Gala - Friday, February 29, 2008
Jonas looked out the window and stared at the gnarled oak trees in the yard. Brown shriveled leaves shivered in the weak mid-winter breeze. "The winter sure does drag on," Jonas thought. "Seems like just yesterday I was picking those nice ripe tomaters off the vine." He opened the front door and shuffled onto the porch, carefully stepping over Miss Lula, his beloved hound dog, who was sprawled on the porch floor like a lumpy burlap sack. "Guess I'll go check the mail," Jonas said to the snoring hound as he ambled down the driveway. Somewhere in the back of his mind he heard a crow squawking overhead. Another sound suddenly took shape and formed into the unmistakable sound of hoof beats. A familiar dust cloud appeared down the road. It was Clem the Courier. "Jonas!" he bellowed as he jumped off his horse, Maybelle. "Look what I got for ya! It's an invite to some kind of thing called a Gala! Open it up!" Jonas took the envelope from Clem's grimy hand and looked at it. It had been opened, but carefully taped shut with duct tape. Clem was not exactly up-to-speed on postal regulations. Jonas opened the invitation. "Hmm . . . now this looks like fun," he said to Clem. "Maybe this here Gala will cure me of the winter doldrums . . . "
Curious? Visit the TLC website to learn more about this upcoming event. Invitations will be mailed to TLC members and friends in the near future and tickets will also be available for purchase on the TLC website (www.triangleland.org). Stay tuned for more details!
Gala Sponsors (as of January 10, 2008)
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The Longleaf Council - $5,000 Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
The Laurel Circle - $2,500 Capitol Broadcasting Company Carol O'Brien Associates Inc. Linda and Rufus Edmisten Hoffman Nursery, Inc. JDavis Architects, PLLC Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman, LLP Lee-Moore Capital Company MeadWestvaco The John R. McAdams Company, Inc. The Redwoods Group Weaver Street Realty Williams Mullen Maupin Taylor, P.A. |
The Larkspur Club - $1,500 C.T. Wilson Construction Cansler Fuquay Solutions, Inc. Fearrington Village Restoration Systems, LLC The Stoddard Group The Angle & Trustin Fund of the Triangle Community Foundation
The Loblolly Crew - $500 Accurium, Inc. Anders Natural Soap Co. Bizios Architect BrandFuel Bridge Road Farm FLP Irene and Alan Briggaman Four Oaks Bank & Trust Co. KB Home Kirkland Appraisals North Carolina Botanical Garden Real Estate Associates, Inc. Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC
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