The newsletter of the Sierra Club Eastern Missouri Group
October - November 2001, Volume 17 Number 5
News Bits
Outstanding Sierrans - nominations
Reunion draws an enthusiastic crowd
Green Center hosts outdoor events
Home and Building Tour promotes wise energy use
Full Circle Healing Garden is new addition to Forest Park
Senate vote will clinch fate of last great wilderness
ANWR and US Policy Energy Debate
The U.S. House of Representatives voted in July to open the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling...
Candidate Statements
Excom election
Sierra Club Celebrates Huge Victory At Church Mountain How do you defend a mountain few people have heard of and is so is remote that it can't be seen from any public road? Church Mountain, located about midway between Taum Sauk State Park and Johnson Shut-ins State Park, was the mountain in question earlier this summer...
A glance back at an ExCom experience
"How would you like to be a candidate for the EMG Executive
Committee?" the voice on the phone asked.
"You'e got to be kidding! I'm not qualified... my background is music, not
conservation!" I replied. "NO WAY!!!"...
Inner City Outings hosts national conference
EMG Sierra Club members and ICO volunteers Brad Stumpe and I attended the
national Inner City Outings Conference at the Estes Park Center, YMCA of the
Rockies in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado on August 16-19, 2001.
One hundred ten volunteers from all across the U.S. and Canada participated in
two and a half days of learning, sharing and socializing...
Stronger environmental protection is now just a phone call away
Well, almost. Nothing is quite that simple or easy. If it were, we wouldn't
really need to Sierra Club to speak out on conservation issues, would we?
But we do, and we have an increasingly powerful
voice at that. There are now more than 6,100 members in the EMG alone, an
increase in the past year of 22 percent! You may be one of them, and we welcome
your active participation...
River's pace allows time to question and reflect
On a chilly Sunday morning in mid-September, I embarked upon my first canoe trip
down the Missouri River. Our small fleet of five floated swiftly past the
imposing white bluffs at Weldon Spring. Bluffs gave way to lush, tree-lined
banks. We glimpsed families on bicycles pedaling the KATY Trail as we paddled
downstream...