Meetings

What follows is the current calendar of meetings and general events of the River Prairie Group.

General Group Meetings are held at the Glen Ellyn Public Library Sundays at 2:00 P.M. unless otherwise noted. The Library is located at 400 Duane Street in downtown Glen Ellyn. Duane Street runs east and west and is the first street on the south side of the Metra train tracks. The Library is west of Main Street.

Committee meetings are typically held in Sierra Club activist's homes. Committee meetings are an excellent way for volunteers who wish to get more involved in the various Club activities to learn more about the Club and to get directly involved. For the locations of the committee meetings, please call the activist who is hosting the committee meeting.

The River Prairie Group Executive Committee is the committee that oversees all of the functions of the Group. Committee chairpersons and coordinators report to the Executive Committee on the progress of the committees.

For more detail information and/or for the descriptions of the various meetings, please call the River Prairie Group Hotline at 630-985-1185. Committee activities or functions are described on the Volunteer page of this web site. The Executive Committee makeup is described in the Executive Committee page of this web site.

The calendar of meetings and events is as follows (the structure is date, meeting type or committee in bold, location if known, and contact name and/or telephone number):

2003 Meetings

Sierra Club General Programs - 2003

All Sierra Club General Programs are held at the Glen Ellyn Public Library, Meeting Rooms A & B. The address is 400 Duane Street, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Duane Street is one block south of the Metra tracks and the library is 4 blocks west of Main Street. All General Program meetings are open to the general public. If you are interested in the subject of a particular meeting, please attend. Refreshments will be served.

In 2003, the General Program meetings will all be held on Sundays from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 pm.

For more information, call Bruce Blake - Programs - (630)629-2520 or Rllnstns1@aol.com

February 23, 2003
"Welcome To New Members"
If your are a new Sierra Club member or would like to be one, come to this meeting. You can learn what the Sierra Club is about. You will have an opportunity to meet the leaders of the numerous activities that the Club sponsors. Select an area that you would be interested in from our large outing and hiking programs to environmental activist to water monitoring, social activities, wildland restoration, etc. You will have a chance to meet our leaders and ask questions. For more information call Joe Pokorny at 708-562-2998 or jfpokorny@attbi.com.

March 30, 2003 "Water Monitoring Program of the River Prairie Group - East and West Branches of the DuPage River and Salt Creek" Water Sampling Pictures Our local Sierra Club, River Prairie Group, has a team of volunteers that monitors the water condition of the East and West Branches of the DuPage River and Salt Creek. They have been very active in testing and monitoring the quality of the waters. By knowing what chemicals are in our rivers, what oxygen levels are, and what kind of life is in the waters, we can help to improve the quality. Come see what your local rivers have in them and how our monitoring team works. For more information call Marisa Grittini-Friedberg at: (630)545-1036 or rfmef@aol.com.

April 27, 2003
"Mono Lake, California" Mono Lake Pictures Mono Lake is an inland saltwater lake fed by four fresh water streams from the Sierras in California. In 1941, the city of Los Angeles diverted the fresh water from the lake and the lake lost half its volume by 1982. The lake was on its way to becoming a dried-up salt bed. The Mono Lake Committee was born in 1978 from volunteers dedicated to saving the lake and took Los Angeles to court. After a long battle, the lake was finally saved. Frank Orto served as in intern ranger at Mono Lake in 1991 and revisited the lake this past summer. He will explain what happened and share his reflections about the lake after having been away 11 years. For more information call Frank Orto at (708)544-8520 or frank.orto@sierraclub.org.

Executive Committee Meetings

Most Executive Committee meetings are held approximately 5 or 6 times a year. The meetings are generally held at the homes of various members of the Executive Committee. To find out about the exact times and locations of the Executive Committee meetings please contact Frank Orto at (708) 544-8520. Non-Executive Committee members are invited to attend these meetings to get a feel for how this committee functions and to get an idea of the major issues being address by the River Prairie Group.

Outings Committee Meetings

The Outings Committee generally meets on the first Wednesday of each month. The Outings Committee meets in various homes of the active outings leaders. These are good meetings to attend if you are interested in becoming an outings leader or are simply interested in the planning and operations of the Outings Committee. For more information on the Outings Committee and for more information on the location and time of the meetings of this committee, please contact Fred Weber at (630) 469-6826.