Newsletter- September 2023 update from Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter
September 29, 2023
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Hi Supporter,
In this newsletter - honoring our members and volunteers, updates on our work, plus all our regular features and upcoming events.
Happy reading!
Sierra Club members honored
L-R, Doug Johnson, Isabel Nowlin, Jesse Kirkham with Julie Lowe, Rebecca Lorenz, and Dennis Tibbetts.
Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter and Winding Waters Group chair, Julie Lowe, recently issued awards to recognize longtime Sierra Club members. These awards were to honor and thank them for their unwavering dedication to protect the environment and the people that live in our community.
Isabel Nowlin, Rebecca Lorenz, Doug Johnson, WWG Founder and Dennis Tibbetts were present at a party in Columbus to be honored. Also receiving the award is Mary Beth Wert, Hoosier Chapter and local Group Treasurer who was thanked for her decades of service, as well as Art Hopkins and Mike Mullett for their years of continued service. Jesse Kirkham, longtime leader of our Heartlands Group, received his award at a Summer Social in Indianapolis. Volunteer leader Natalie Colbert is also an award recepient. Thank you to all Sierra Club volunteers that help in the different ways that we do to make positive change!
Sierra Club staff and volunteer leaders are passionate about getting out there and spreading the word about issues that matter to Hoosiers!
We wrapped up our series of Summer Socials at Belmont Beach, Indianapolis, on 24 September.
Our volunteers and staff members chatted with park visitors about local issues and soaked up the last of the summer sun!
Acting Chapter Director (and Deputy Regional Field Director) Amanda Shepherd visited NW Indiana earlier this month for Earth Charter Indiana's (ECI) Climate Leadership Summit.
The Summit brings together local officials and involved residents from across the state working to make our communities more sustainable and resilient in the face of a changing climate.
Chapter Chair, Julie Lowe, and Vice Chair, Roxanna Caldwell, attended the Council of Club Leaders meeting in Chicago.
The Summit brings together local officials and involved residents from across the state working to make our communities more sustainable and resilient in the face of a changing climate.
Sierra Club folks from all over the country met at Columbus Circle in NYC to begin the March to End Fossil Fuels.
Sierra Club director, Ben Jealous, was there to speak to Sierrans that traveled to the city for this historic march. Read more:
Several Hoosier Chapter and Winding Waters Group volunteer leaders were at the ribbon cutting event for the new pollinator path in Columbus, IN, earlier this month.
Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter volunteers and staff at Belmont Beach. L-R, Jeremy Radway, Rebecca Dien-Johns, Rox Caldwell, Ashlyn Devine, Jesse Kirkham, and Julie Lowe. Photo by young Sierra Club supporter, Celyn (aged 11).
Kathy Sipple (Regional Coordinator for ECI), Amanda Shepherd (Sierra Club), and Alison Zajdel (Regional Coordinator for ECI) at the Climate Leadership Summit evening reception co-hosted by Brown Faces Green Spaces. Photo provided by Amanda.
Roxanna Caldwell, Vice-Chair Hoosier Chapter IN; Luther Dale, Grassroots Network Support MN; Julie Lowe, Chair Hoosier Chapter IN; Sierra Club President, Alison Chin DC. Photo provided by Julie.
Julie Lowe, Hoosier Chapter Chair posed for a selfie during the March to End Fossil Fuels with Christopher Shepherd, Pennsylvania Chapter Chair who organized a bus from Pittsburgh for the Allegheny Group of the Pennsylvania Chapter.
Folks gathering at the opening of the pollinator path in Columbus. Photo provided by Amanda.
Readers' Photos
This month's photo comes from reader Mary Beth Ryan.
She says, "I have been seeing a bald eagle along Riverview Drive in Indianapolis, near Broad Ripple, periodically. I try to stop and take a picture every time I see it. I just think it’s so cool that we have bald eagles that live so close to where we live. This one was taken in July 2023."
Thank you so much for sharing, Mary Beth!
Do you have a photograph of Indiana nature that you would like to share? We'd love to see it and perhaps feature it in a future newsletter!
Use the button below or email
rebecca.dien-johns@sierraclub.org
Now through to the end of October, 2023
Belmont Beach in Indianapolis has a ton of great events happening over the summer that are all free and family-friendly... movie nights, concerts, sound bath meditations and more! See the 2023 event schedule for more information.
