FRIENDS OF THE BRANCH RIVER WATERSHED MEETING MINUTES

Aug 7, 2017 Meeting Minutes—attendees: Al Klingeisen, John Meyer, Bill Bratz, Emily and Eva Endter, Harvey and Eileen Mleziva, Charlie Geiger, Barb Panosh, Wayne Huske. Financial report given by Charlie Geiger. Copies disbursed at meeting. October 2nd @ 6:30 Taus Town Hall – next meeting Mark your calendars for Oct 7 family trail run/walk event and kids run/walk! Share the date with people to help get the word out. If you want to volunteer, please let Al know ASAP. Flyers are ready to go; if you want more copies, please contact Emily or Al. Thrivent Financial is sponsoring our Run/Walk! Our Member/Sponsor Appreciation Lunch is booked for December 10 at 12:30-- Gill’s. We will have chicken and sides provided. We will welcome any desserts from members who want to show off their culinary skills! More details to follow but we will also get cookies to decorate from Cravings. We WILL need your RSVP’s for the event for food planning purposes… mark your calendars and contact us with number of attendees! Membership renewals also will be taken. Thanks to all of those who attended Aug 10 presentation by Rob Zimmer. Event was well-attended and the speaker was very informative! We also had many delicious sides for the potluck and got a walking tour of Woodland Dunes grounds as Rob pointed out many of the Wild Edible plants he had discussed. West Foundation was the main sponsor for this event. We sent Eliza Suchan to the Trees 4 Tomorrow Camp in Manitowish Waters. She couldn’t go last year and luckily could attend this year. She has been very beneficial with volunteer work and went through all of the steps required for our Youth Program as well as leading the Maritime Museum’s Summer Watershed Ambassadors Camp. We sent two FOBR youth members to the Maritime Museum summer camp (12 and up). We hope they had a very enjoyable time. We briefly talked about camps for our younger members and will be sending children to Woodland Dunes Day camps. I will be staying in touch with them on dates for next year’s camps but if your schedule is flexible, please let me know that you are interested in sending your child(ren) and I will keep you posted on dates and camp descriptions. We sent three children to a “Pond Life” day camp July 14. We held a last-minute invasives removal event on July 13th that was very well attended. Thankfully the river level finally came down and the kids had a blast playing in the river. Thank you to all who helped and to Barb Panosh for processing the crayfish! She pickled them and had some at the Aug 10 event… they were very good! We purchased a metal sign for the Dodge Preserve and presented it to Rollie and Carol during a Valders Journal newspaper meeting on the Preserve. Thanks! Emily Endter, FOBR Secretary (920)323-3486 and Al Klingeisen, President (920)901-5166