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From the President Winter has come unnoticed by me, I have been so busy writing. This is the life most lead in respect to Nature. How different from my habitual one! It is hasty, coarse, and trivial, as if you were a spindle in a factory. The other is leisurely, fine, and glorious, like a flower. In the first case, you are merely getting your living; in the second you live as you go along. We hope you are finding time in your busy life to notice the winter and the spring beginning to blossom. Here at Committee for Green Foothills, we are pausing from our regular “busyness” to look at where we have been and where we are heading as we work to protect and preserve our natural open spaces. We began our review by surveying members and donors in an online and telephone survey in December. We would like to thank those who participated. Your input helped us understand the Committee’s past and present successes and focus in order to develop a strategic plan that will guide us for the next 5 years. Our strategic plan will put greater emphasis on our efforts in the near and mid term, to magnify the impact we have as an organization on protecting open spaces. There’s much work still to do and we would appreciate any further comments you would like to share with us. This spring we are celebrating the legacy of our co-Founder Lois Hogle with the unveiling of a bench in her honor at Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve, made possible by the generous donations of so many of you. We’re planning an event to coincide with as many glorious flowers as possible to remind us how she would “gather us together like flowers” to work together to protect open lands. I hope you will be able to join us at this special event. Finally, it wouldn’t be spring without new growth and we here at the Committee are no exception. We congratulate Holly Van Houten, our executive director, and her husband, Patrick Laprocina, who are expecting their first child in early July. Holly plans to work as long as she can before the baby arrives and then return in the fall to resume her leadership at the helm of the Committee. We wish Holly and Patrick all the best as they prepare for their new addition to the planet! As we move forward this year, we need and want to hear from you. Our Legislative Advocates — Lennie Roberts and Brian Schmidt — rely on you as their eyes and ears in the community and value your alert attention to the world around you. As winter turns to spring and the rains finally bless us, I wish you hours of glorious, leisurely time in nature, to return refreshed, renewed, and reinvigorated to protect the nature that surrounds us. Published Spring 2007 in Green Footnotes. Page last updated July 2, 2007. |
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