TOPSHAM — The Cathance River Education Alliance’s (CREA) annual meeting is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. May 21 at the Highland Green Community Center.
Hearty hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served at 5:30 p.m. The business meeting is scheduled to start at 6:15 p.m., followed by a keynote address at 7 p.m.
Pete Didisheim, advocacy director for the Natural Resources Council of Maine, will give a talk titled “Protecting Maine’s Environment: A View from the Frontlines.”
CREA members and the general public are invited to attend.
“Maine’s natural beauty has inspired authors and artists, poets and politicians, and residents and vacationers for generations. It also has inspired citizen activists, who have dedicated their time and talents to the job of restoring, protecting and conserving the nature of Maine,” a CREA release states. “What Maine people have done to help protect our environment literally defines the state of Maine today. For more than 50 years, the Natural Resources Council of Maine — the state’s leading environmental advocacy organization — has been at the center of much of this work.”
In his presentation, Didisheim of Brunswick will discuss some of the major environmental protection achievements of the past and what he perceives to be looming major challenges.
The purpose of CREA, a nonprofit organization founded in 2000, is to promote and use the Cathance River Preserve and the Cathance River watershed as a vehicle and laboratory for ecological and cultural education and study by teachers, students in the area schools, and by area residents. The preserve is a 235-acre area in Topsham along a portion of the Cathance River, owned by Highland Green, and held as a conservation easement by the Brunswick/Topsham Land Trust.
For more information, call 798-1913 or visit www.creamaine.org.
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