<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Green friends,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A quick update: I visited the riverbank project this afternoon and spent nearly an hour pinning, even though the plastic wasn’t in too bad shape. We will discuss Sunday at our meeting. Here’s a draft agenda. <b class="">Please let me know what I’ve forgotten or otherwise that needs to be discussed by 6:30 p.m. T</b>hursday. I will be working in Columbus next Sunday, but I will Zoom in at 12:30 for the meeting! (How’s that for dedication?!) </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Approval of the corrected minutes from the February 21 meeting, which Rebecca sent earlier</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. Annie Warmke, sadly, has stepped down from co-chair-personship of GSC. </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Would any of you—how about YOU—be willing to serve as co-chair? Please?</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dawn cannot attend May 18 GSC meeting. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3. Finalizing plans for April 18 service—without Annie. :-(</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">4. Update on Riverbank Project:</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A chunk of plastic has gone missing</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A patch of daffodils and naked ladies has also been exposed.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>It is useful to take a large handful of extra pins with you to inspect, and also to be on the lookout for pins that have fallen out. </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Need a new plan for checking plastic</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Plan for planting?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">5. Update on Solar Bench project</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">6. Earth Day plans</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ohio River Islands NWR will have a river cleanup via kayak and pontoon boat on April 17.’</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>MOVCA, CCL, and FaCT project all have booths and tables at the Armory from 10-1 April 24. Few other booths, but other dispersed activities. Bring your own table and chairs, and optional tent. </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dawn will lead a birding hike at Kroger wetlands at 8 a.m. Limit 10 people. Must RSVP.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Roger will lead a bike tour at 1 p.m.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dawn Wittberg will have a scavenger hunt for kids in East Muskingum Park</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Woodsy Owl will be visiting various downtown businesses throughout April. Kids who find him several times get a prize</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">7. Time to start pressuring the city to get serious about protecting the water well field, to prevent parking on the shallow soil above the aquifer</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">8. CCL update</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">9. MOVCA update</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">10. Anything on injection wells, fracking waste spills, other spills, or that nasty storage facility planned up river? [There’s so much!!]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">11. Anything else I’ve forgotten. PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>