DCVA Annual Meeting

Annual Meeting

March 2 , 2019

8:30-2:00

AGENDA AND ANNUAL REPORT

Time       Program Agenda

8:30-8:45Welcome/Coffee

8:45-8:50Call to Order, Pledge of Allegiance, Invocation, - Jaclyn Rhoads

8:50-9:00Welcome to CREC! – Tim Denny

9:00-9:25End-of-Year Summary & 2019 Annual Meeting Introduction – Jaclyn Rhoads

Presentations by Speakers

9:25-9:55Fred Stine, Citizen Action Coordinator; Delaware River Keeper Network

Title: “Being an Action Hero!”

9:55-10:25Madilyn Schwer, Outreach VISTA, Friends of Heinz Refuge

Title: “Protecting the Darby at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge”

10:25-10:55David Hilbert, Tree Programs Manager at CRC Watersheds Association

Title: “Potential to collaborate on a series of runoff-prevention plantings along our common boundary on the crest between the Crum and Darby watersheds”

10:55-11:25Chris Mendel, PLA, ASLA, Executive Director, Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust

Title: “Relationship Building for Sustainable Planning”

11:25-12:00DCVA Blasts

• Stream Cleanup & East Coast Greenway - David Bennett

• Stream Watch Program - Alan Samel

• Canoe Ramble - Jaclyn Rhoads

• TAG – Jaclyn Rhoads/Derron LaBrake

• Whetstone Run – Derron LaBrake

• Citizen Science Reporting – Susan Miller

• Trail Coalition Update – Scott Maits

12:00 – 1:00Light Lunch and Poster Session.  Wander through Darby Creek history with William Penn!  Network with members/guests, eat lunch, visit poster displays. (Light lunch prepared by Toni McIntosh)