Land conservancy to meet tomorrow afternoon 2/6/2009 8:45 PM By MIKE GELLATLY Staff writer
The Aiken Land Conservancy (ALC) is holding its annual meeting and asking for support from anyone who rides horses, walks dogs or has a general love for nature and green space.
The event will be at The Willcox hotel on Sunday¬ between 3 and 5 p.m., and is intended to attract new members and reconnect and inform current participants.
The ALC is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of open, undeveloped space in Aiken County. ALC is one of 20 land trusts within South Carolina and one of more than 1,000 land trusts nationwide. ALC has preserved more than 1,200 acres of land throughout Aiken County.
It is a volunteer organization with two part-time employees that depends upon donations from its members and friends to operate.
"We all prize the beauty of our area and working together we can slow the growth of urban sprawl and preserve many of our natural treasures for our grandchildren and theirs," the organization said in a press release. "We all instinctively understand the intrinsic value of keeping the natural world the way it was created, but protecting land also makes good economic sense."
A silent auction will be part of the afternoon agenda, helping to raise money for the organization. Items on the table include a fly-fishing trip in North Carolina, a stay in a mountain home, an Aiken Polo Club field-side parking space and much more.¬
Guest speaker Charles G. Lane of Charleston will share his experience as the first Chairman of the South Carolina Conservation Bank Board and Chairman of the ACE Basin Task Force from its inception in 1989 until 2004. The task force was established to provide land protection in the ACE Basin River Corridor.
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