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Current News: 2009

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Hear the Sierra Club on WEFT, 90.1 FM, Tuesdays 5:30-6:00pm (see details below)

Meeting location and day-of-month:

(mostly) 7 PM, second Tuesday of each month
McKinley Foundation Geneva Room
5th & Daniel, in Champaign just W of UofI campus

Upcoming Events and Meetings:


Saturday, June 13th, Noon to 7 PM
Homer Lake Walnut Hill Picnic Shelter

Illinois Sierra Club 50th Anniversary Picnic!

Join us for our annual summer get-together over good potluck food with good conversation, with laughs and learning.

Start thinking about what covered dish you'd like to bring or ask Alice Englebretson (a.englebretsen at comcast dot net) for suggestions.

Again, it's at Homer Lake's Walnut Hill Picnic Shelter, on Saturday, June 13th!



Sierra Club Radio
WEFT, 90.1 FM, Tuesdays 5:30-6:00pm

Sierra Club Radio is now on local community radio station WEFT, 90.1 FM in Champaign, every Tuesday afternoon from 5:30 to 6:00pm. Sierra Club Radio is a nationally produced half-hour radio show about the environment with a focus on what each of us can do to make our world better. Each week host Orli Cotel has in-depth interviews with politicians, authors, celebrities, artists, businesspeople, and activists inspired by nature. There is advice from "Mr. Green", lifestyle tips, and occasional commentary from Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope.

Coming up: interviews and call-in shows with local environmental leaders about the issues affecting Central Illinois.

So listen each week on your radio to WEFT, 90.1 FM on Tuesdays at 5:30pm as Sierra Club turns the airwaves green.


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