Audubon Naturalist Society Annual Meeting

You're Invited!

Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, 5:30-8 p.m. | Woodend Sanctuary in Chevy Chase, MD

ANS is pleased to feature Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin, a Democrat representing Silver Spring and Takoma Park (District 20) at our next annual meeting. A member of the Maryland Senate's Judicial Proceedings Committee, the Joint Committee on the Chesapeake Bay and Coastal Regions, the Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics and the Joint Committee on Federal Relations, Senator Raskin has seen nearly 50 of his bills pass into law in his first Term.

Senator Raskin's prodigious legislative output includes:

»  Maryland's Farm-to-Schools Act, linking Maryland's farmers and their fresh produce with school kitchens and cafeterias across the state;
» The Green Maryland Act, requiring recycling, composting and green contracting and procurement rules in all state agencies;
» The Benefit Corporation Law, which made Maryland the first state in the union to create a new kind of corporation that is organized around both a profit-making purpose and a larger social "benefit" as well.

The Huffington Post has called Senator Raskin "one of the nation's most talented state legislators." The Washington Post described Raskin as the Senate's "authority on constitutional issues," the Silver Spring and Takoma Voice called him the "whiz kid" of the General Assembly and, in its "Best of the Best" readers choice issue, named him Montgomery County's "Most Responsive Elected Official." MDPolitickerblog called him the "smartest Member of the General Assembly."

Don't miss this informative, insightful evening! Refreshments will be served, and reservations would be helpful. Please email Loree Trilling or call Loree at 301-652-9188 x35 if you can join us.

The meeting will include several brief reports, recognition of volunteers and the Natural History Field Studies graduates, and the election of members to the ANS Board. The following candidates have been nominated (to come):

Additional candidates include  (to come) who have agreed to run for a second three-year term on the ANS board.