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Letters to the Editor - 04/30/08 |
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Peter Brink was dear friend to Nature Center
Dear Editor,
Placer Nature Center lost a wonderful friend last week when Peter K. Brink passed away. We would like to share a few details of his work for the Center with the public – as he was a wonderful character and delightful and generous human being.
During the past 17 years, Peter has been involved with our environmental learning center in so many ways. Our “On the Brink of Discovery Room” honors Peter’s contribution to restoration of this structure into a science laboratory. For over 12 years, our “Family Days” open house events annually celebrate insects and exhibited Peter’s astonishing collection. They are also shared every summer with our “Bugs, Bugs, Bugs” summer campers. He was a regular lecturer at our “Conservation Awareness” classes for California Conservation Corps youth. The reporting system we use to keep our Board of Directors current on grant activity was designed by Peter when he served on our Fund Development Committee. Our exhibit hall rug hosts circles of school children every school day and was funded by the Brink family. Our “Endowment Fund” was established thanks to an initial gift by the Brink family. The Native American baskets that adorn our Maidu exhibit are on loan to us from the Brink family.
As you can see, our gratitude to and love of the Brink family is longstanding and deep. You will also be interested to know that Norma is a regular visitor to the Center and assists with record keeping for income to the Center that is generated by our grant writing, school tours and fund raisers.
We grieve with her and the family at Peter’s passing and will miss him as we celebrate his memory and contribution to children and the environment forever.
Leslie Warren,
Placer Nature Center
Thanks for helping clean American River
Dear Editor,
Protect American River Canyons and California State Parks would like to
thank all the volunteers and donors who came out to celebrate Earth Day
by cleaning up trash along the American River in the Auburn State
Recreation Area. The clean-up was a huge success. Volunteers filled a
40-yard dumpster primarily with trash tossed off the Foresthill Bridge
or dumped along the roads that lead to the river. Thanks to the
community for such a fantastic turnout.
As we turn our attention to outdoor activities in spring and summer,
it’s a good time to keep our beautiful wild and scenic river and
canyons free of trash discarded by inconsiderate people. Let’s make it
Earth Day every day when in the American River Canyons.
Please join PARC in celebrating the American River and all the
opportunities to enjoy nature it brings to our lives at the Confluence
Festival on Sunday, June 8. Visit our website, parc-auburn.org, for
more details.
Keep it wild. Keep it scenic. Keep it clean.
Eric Peach,
Protect American
River Canyons
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