Robert Lunz Group

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Sierra Club Member Slide Show
Thursday, January 2, 2025, 7 pm
Rita Hollings Science Center, 58 Coming Street (corner of George)
Also on Zoom, please register here.

Alec and Christine will show slides from Ruby Mountains, Utah and Nevada; Nina will tell us about her Sierra Club service trip in Yosemite National Park; Bill will show New Zealand and Wyoming.

a group of Sierra Club members in front ot Yosemite mountain

Please join us for our annual Sierra Club Robert Lunz Group Oyster Roast and Auction!
Sunday, February 23, 2025
2:00-5:00 pm
Bowen’s Island Restaurant, off Folly Road
Live music by Lime and the Coconuts!

Adult tickets are $40 in advance (until 10 am on Feb 23) on Eventbrite (no fee), Eventbrite link for ticket purchase. Tickets at the gate: Adults $45; Students with ID $25; Children (6-12) $5; Under 6 - free. Ticket price includes oysters, potluck veggie and meat chili, and veggie dogs. Beer or wine available with donation. Open to the public.

Bid on great auction items such as: gift certificates, sailing classes, kayak tours, park passes, books, theater tickets, pottery, fine art and more! Bring cash, check, or credit card.

To volunteer (to bring chili, serve hot dogs or beer, set up, clean up) please send an email to avogeslambert@gmail.com. (This is our big fundraiser, so volunteers should also buy a ticket.)

To donate items for the silent auction, please contact Laura Moses at lauramoses@yahoo.com or Nina Fair at ninafair@bellsouth.net. Many thanks to our auction donors and volunteers!

Bring your own reusable cup, plate and eating utensils if you’d like. Please do not bring disposable plastic or styrofoam!

A band playing at Bowen's Island

Sierra Club mission statement:

  • To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth;
  • To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; 
  • To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.  

The Robert Lunz Group of the South Carolina Sierra Club has over 1,300 members in Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton and Dorchester counties and hosts monthly hikes, canoe trips, and lectures.  

Sierra Club’s core values: 
Anti-racism: We commit to shifting power away from white supremacy, repairing harm, and ending structural racism.  
Balance: Our effectiveness comes from committing to caring for ourselves and others.  
Collaboration: We believe in just relationships that support collective work.  
Justice: We are accountable for our actions, our work, and how we show up with trust and respect.  
Transformation: We commit to changing our relationships to power, privilege, and oppression—for ourselves and for the organization. 

Land Acknowledgement

We want to acknowledge that we, the Robert Lunz Group of the Sierra Club (Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton and Dorchester Counties), work and live on lands once belonging to more than a dozen distinct groups of Native Americans whose existence is now evident in the familiar place names  including: Ashepoo, Awendaw/Sewee, Bohicket, Catawba, Combahee, Coosa, Edisto, Etiwan, Kiawah, PeeDee, Shem (named by Sewee Tribe), Stono, Wando, Wappoo, Wassamasaw and Winyah. Disease, warfare and displacement led to the extinction of most of these groups by the middle of the eighteenth century. Shell mound evidence indicates that Native Americans were present in the lowcountry as long as 4,000 years ago. Their presence has continued to the present day including the Catawba, PeeDee, Wassamasaw, Edisto and Winyah tribes. The Wassamasaw have applied for Federal recognition.  The Catawba Nation is the only Federally recognized tribe in South Carolina. A Native American Ceremonial Center is located in the Charles Towne Landing State Historic Park.

Sources

 https://native-land.ca/.

https://www.sciway.net/hist/indians/geo.html

https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/first-people-south-carolina-lowcountry

Connecting to South Carolina’s Black River

Winyah Rivers Alliance invites you to engage in an exciting conservation and recreation planning initiative. The Black River Water Trail and Park Network (https://www.openspaceinstitute.org/blackriver), which will include the first new state park in over 15 years, aims to meet the open space and access needs of communities along the water, while creating nature-based recreation and tourism opportunities to boost the local economy.

To ensure the needs of the local communities are being met, we are seeking your input to determine the potential types of recreational offerings that will be integrated into the Black River Water Trail & Park Network, such as kayaking, picnicking, camping, biking, hiking, fishing, and so much more. Please take this SURVEY (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WRABlackRiver)  and deliver comments to the project team. 
 

Promotional video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cvyF4KYuGs

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