Sierra Club
Redwood Chapter Newsletter
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Lake Group Report Juliana Vidich | |
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Next Lake Group General Meeting The next general meeting of the Sierra Club Lake Group will be Wednesday, November 19, at 7:00 pm at the Kelseyville High School Library in Kelseyville. Rick Macedo of California Department of Fish & Game will tell us about Clear Lake's native fisheries. Lake Group ExCom Meetings The Lake Group Executive Committee meetings are open to all Sierra Club members, and are on the third Monday of every month at 7 pm in Kelseyville. For the meeting location, call Juliana, 277-7670. Sierra Club's "Wilderness and Wine Tasting" Event a Big Success Approximately two hundred people attended the Lake Group's "Wilderness and Wine Tasting with John Muir" event at the Lakeport Senior Center on Friday, October 24th, making the evening a big success. The crowd was treated to wine and hors d'oeuvres, followed by brief presentations about the Sierra Club Lake Group and the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act, which was |
introduced in the House of Representatives as HR 1501 by Rep. Mike Thompson this year. In order for this bill to be passed by Congress, Senator Dianne Feinstein needs to co-sponsor its companion Senate bill, S 738, which Senator Boxer introduced earlier this year. One purpose of the event was to ask people to encourage Feinstein to do this, and many members of the audience generously signed letters at the event. The highlight of the evening was a one-man show by "John Muir" himself, the legendary mountaineer and Sierra Club founder, played by Mark Raddatz of Sedona, Arizona. With his late-1800's countenance and Scottish brogue, Raddatz captured the essence of John Muir, the conservationist who fought long and hard to maintain the beauty of Yosemite and the other National Parks. His words, alternating between sublime poetry, thorny diatribe, and "bear-raising" adventure, were as relevant today as when first spoken. The event was made possible through a grant from the California Wilderness Coalition, which is working with the Sierra Club to promote wilderness preservation. |