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photo by chesbayprogram link | shared under a Creative Commons (BYNC) license Time to vote: ExCom election ballots arriving next week It's Sierra Club election time! In the next two weeks, be watching your inbox and your mailbox because your Executive Committee election ballot will be arriving soon. The newly redesigned paper ballot will be tucked in the center of our printed yearend review, The Compass, and can be utilized by both single and joint members. The easy digital ballot, arriving via email, will be sent out to each member individually, or as a duplicate email for shared email address. Only one ballot submission per person, please. Our Sierra Club leaders have given so much to us this year, so please take a moment to give them your vote of confidence for 2019. ► Mailin and digital ballots are due by December 31st ► One ballot submission per person ► Read candidate bios online here Top Story: ExCom Voting Begins
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Time to vote: ExComelection ballots arrivingnext week
It's Sierra Club election time! In the nexttwo weeks, be watching your inbox andyour mailbox because your ExecutiveCommittee election ballot will be arrivingsoon.
The newly redesigned paper ballot will betucked in the center of our printed yearendreview, The Compass, and can be utilized byboth single and joint members. The easydigital ballot, arriving via email, will be sentout to each member individually, or as aduplicate email for shared email address.Only one ballot submission per person,please.
Our Sierra Club leaders have given so muchto us this year, so please take a momentto give them your vote of confidence for2019.
Mailin and digitalballots are due by
December 31st
One ballot submissionper person
Read candidate biosonline here
Top Story: ExCom Voting Begins
Analysis: SB 405 TestimonyMembers host Eco Radio ShowMembers Win Environmental AwardGrants for EducatorsSave the Dates!Conservation NewsGroup News & EventsFeatured Waypoint: Kaw River State Park
news & updates
Analysis of MisleadingTestimony on SB 405
Tyson Bill – Part 2Kansas People’s Agenda
January 15, 11:30 1:30, State Capitol Last month in Part 1 , we described how
SB405 testimony regarding chickenproduction particle emissions was basedon flawed research from a poultry industryjournal. In Part 2, we look at misleadingtestimony ignoring the likely nuisanceimpacts (flies, odor and truck traffic) ofplacing up to 1/3 million broiler chickensonly 1/4 mile from homes and 100 feetfrom neighboring property lines. Thelegislature ignored our recommendationthat the bill be referred to outside expertslike the Kansas Health Institute for furtherstudy.
Read part 2
If you have expertise on an
Members Host Eco RadioShow, Seek Guests Kansas Chapter members Craig Lubowand Richard Mabion are two of the cohosts on Eco Radio KC on KKFICommunity Radio. The independent radioshow focuses entirely on environmentalissues including local & regenerativeagriculture, energy conservation &efficiency, justice, ecovillages and muchmore. Guests have included Sierra Club
environmental issue or want to refer usto potential guests, email Craig at [email protected]
leaders Joe Spease and Craig Volland. Tosupport local radio and catch the mostinformative show on ecological issues,tune into 90.1 fm, Mondays at 6 PM in theKansas City area, or listen to the livestream and podcast by clicking the buttonbelow.
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Kansas Sierra Club Grants forKansas Educators Now in its seventh year, the newlyrenamed Ed Rowe Memorial Grants forKansas Primary and SecondaryEnvironmental Educators is acceptingapplications from certified Kansasteachers in accredited schools.
The Sierra ClubKansas Chapter offers alimited number of grants of up to $1,000to K12 teachers who undertake projects,activities, and lessons to enhance studentunderstanding of the climate crisis,environmental jeopardy, and the societalimpacts of environmental injustice.
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Members win Climate+Energyenvironmental awards Our congratulations to LarryErickson, Bob Eye, Gary Anderson andall the winners of the Climate + EnergyProject's 2018 Climate + Energy Awards!Click below to read more about theirimpressive achievements.
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save the dates
Kansas Chapter Fundraiserat Baker WetlandMarch 23rd, 2019 Baker WetlandsDiscovery Center, Lawrence KS
The Sierra Club’s Kansas Chapter willhost a fundraising event in Marchfeaturing actor Kip Niven and featuredspeaker, Kansas State Universitydoctoral candidate Shelly Wiggam.
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People's State of the Statecoming in JanuaryJanuary 15, 11:30 1:30, StateCapitol
You are invited to a pressconference and rally to introduce aPeople’s Agenda for the State ofKansas for the 2019 legislativeseason.
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conservation news
Continuing Story: Kansas WeighsMonitoring PFAS in our DrinkingWaterBY ELAINE GIESSEL, CONSERVATION CHAIR
On November 29th, the Kansas Department ofHealth and Environment (KDHE) convened thefirst meeting of an advisory group to determine ifthe agency needs to create a program formonitoring perfluorinated compounds in finisheddrinking water. Already detected in Kansas, perand polyfluoroalkyl (PFASs) substances aremanmade chemicals that are known to bepersistent in the environment, bioaccumulative inorganisms and toxic at part per trillion levels.Click below to read the full story.
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Support the Kansas Chapter!As 2018 comes to a close, please remember to support theadvocacy and education efforts of the Kansas Chapter. Greatvolunteerleaders, like the folks in this photo, are the backbone ofour efforts, from guiding outings through the wetlands and prairies,to organizing meetings and programs, to lobbying in the StateHouse, and finally to keeping Sierra Club members throughout theSunflower State uptodate on environmental issues that directlyaffect our lives in Kansas.
Your support is essential. Donate securely onlineat Kansas.SierraClub.org.
group news & events
kanza group Kansas City and eastern Kansas
Annual Planning Meeting for 2019 Save the date! January 12, 9:00 am 3:30 pm at UCC Colonial Church, 7039 Mission
Rd, Prairie Village, KS. Meet in the Social Hall downstairs; park in backof church.
All Sierra Club members are cordially invited to share their postelectionvisions and goals for the coming year with the Kanza Executive Committeeleaders during the morning portion of the meeting. Lunch will be provided if
you let us know you wish to join us. Orientation of new ExCom members,election of officers, strategic planning and program development will also bepart of this meeting. For a copy of the agenda and/or to RSVP, pleasecontact Elaine Giessel at [email protected] or KerryHerndon at [email protected]
southwind group Wichita and southern Kansas
Annual Holiday Party! Friday, December 14th, 6:30 pm | 6110 Edinburg St.,
Bel Aire, KS
Southwind’s Annual Holiday Party is at the home of longtime Sierra Club members Tom and Grace Kneil. Thankyou for hosting Southwind Group in your lovely homeonce again! Bring a festive entree, side dish, or dessertto share. Main Dish will be provided. Kick off the seasonwith great food, great conversation with your fellow earthactivists! Show off your favorite holiday sweater! Enjoy amore relaxed and social atmosphere than the monthlymeeting permits! Attend and get a chance to win abeautiful Sierra Club wall or desk calendar.
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Meet the New Transit Director Friday, January 11th, 6:30 pm Potluck Dinner 7:30
pm Speaker, Great Plains Nature Center, 6232 East29th St N, Wichita
Join Southwind Group to meet the new Transit Director,Michael Tann. He came to town in May and was theExecutive Director for Erie Metropolitan Transit Authorityin Erie, Pa. Mr. Tann has experience with electric buses,and we have heard news indicating that he has ordered6 or 7 of them for Wichita in 2019! Let's see what he hasplanned for the future of Wichita Transit and how he canhelp us get people out of their cars and on bikes, feet oron the bus. You do not want to miss this one!
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topeka group Topeka
Topeka Group Annual Holiday Dinner
Friday, December 7, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. |Tuptim Thai Restaurant, 220 SW 29thStreet,Topeka, Kansas
Please join your fellow Topeka Group membersand friends for our annual holiday dinner. TheTuptim Thai Restaurant has long been afavorite. We will reserve a room, so please letus know if you if you plan to attend. The cost ofthe dinner is on your own.
RSVP Duncan Whittier at
7854387772 or [email protected]
Topeka Group January Membership Meeting: “The Kansas Forest Service”
January 8, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship,4775 SW 21st Street, Topeka, Kansas
A forest service in Kansas? Who knew? The Kansas Forest Service is the5th oldest state forestry agency in the country, established on March 10,1887 as the Commissioner of Forestry office. The commissioner was todevelop public interest in forestry by encouraging Kansans to plant foresttrees. While it has been 130 years since this directive commenced, theKansas Forest Service of today holds true to these objectives of promotingsound forestry practices on the Great Plains. Our speaker is Ryan Rastok,Kansas Forest Service District Forester, Oskaloosa. Please join us for thisinteresting program. Questions? Contract Duncan Whittier at 7852493976 or at [email protected]
wakarusa group Lawrence
Eagles Day January 19, 2019 8:304:00 at Billy Mills
Middle School (formerly called South Jr.High), 2734 Louisiana Street.
Wakarusa will be tabling! Bus rides to ClintonLake to sight eagles will be part of the day, livebirds of prey exhibited, and many environmentalgroups will have tables. Come and join us! Contact Karin PagelMeiners([email protected]) to sign up tohelp with tabling. We’ll be highlighting thenational Wild America campaign as well as howto protect wild animals in our neck of the woods(or prairie).
Earth Care Forum 2019 Sundays, 9:4010:45 a.m. in Fireside Room | First
Presbyterian Church, 2415 Clinton ParkWay (Entersouth door off parking lot)
The First Presbyterian EcoTeam and LETUS (LawrenceEcology Teams United in Solidarity) invite us to theirEarth Care Forum on Sundays, starting in January.
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featured waypoint
Kaw River State Park
"Forested trails and access to theKansas (Kaw) River sets Kaw RiverState Park apart from other stateparks. Hiking and mountainbikingtrails wind through an extensive oakhickory forest on steep slopes withgood views. The park propertypresently consists of 76 acres ofland on the south bank of theKansas River in west Topeka."
Source: https://ksoutdoors.com/StateParks/Locations/KawRiver
Show us your favorite Kansasnature or wilderness area!
Submit a small description and aphoto (if possible!) [email protected]
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Waypoint submitted by: Anonymous
Park Address:
5630 SW 6th Avenue, Topeka, KS66606
https://ksoutdoors.com/StateParks/Locations/KawRiver
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Waypoints: noun. A stopping place on ajourney; an endpoint of the leg of acourse, especially one whose coordinateshave been generated by a computer.
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