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October 12, 2011

Welcome

Welcome to ESLC's new website. We are thrilled to launch our new look during Rally 2011: the National Land Conservation Conference, held this year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Several ESLC staff members are attending Rally, and we look forward to their return to Maryland's Eastern Shore, so we can share in their enthusiasm and new knowledge. Our new website offers several features we previously did not have. We have a blog (you're reading it!), and our Action Center soon will be filled with up-to-the-minute news relating to public policy. Stay tuned as we update our conservation maps, news and policies. Please poke around our site, check out our helpful social media links at the top of the page. Be our friend on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Thank you for socializing with us, in Milwaukee and on our website and social media outlets, this week.

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September 9, 2011

ESLC Welcomes Garrrett and Tse to Staff

Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, a private, non-profit land conservation organization committed to preserving and sustaining the vibrant communities of the Eastern Shore and the lands and waters that connect them is pleased to announce the addition of Molly Garrett and Wesley Tse to its staff. Garrett joins ESLC’s Center for Towns as its Community Design Coordinator, where she will support the design phases of community projects, competitions and place work[s]hop projects. In her new role, Molly will assist with ESLC’s Center for Towns Knowledge program and support the Southern Office’s operations. An Eastern Shore native, Molly recently received her Masters in Landscape Architecture from Morgan State University in Baltimore. In 2007 Molly received her Bachelors in Studio Fine Arts from Union College in New York. In the past three years Molly has been involved with community design projects that have dealt with issues concerning urban renewal in Baltimore City, suburban sprawl in Annapolis, and the cultural infrastructure of a port city on the southern coast of Haiti. Also joining the ESLC staff for a one year stint is Chesapeake Conservation Corps is Wesley Tse. Wesley is part of the Chesapeake Bay Trust’s second class of Chesapeake Conservation Corps, a program that provides career and leadership training for young people interested in environmental careers and Chesapeake Bay protection. This initiative, established by the Maryland Legislature in 2010, matches young people, ages 18-25, with organizations throughout the state for paid, one-year terms of service. Volunteers are provided with a stipend for one year in addition to on-the-job experience and technical training provided by the Chesapeake Bay Trust. Wesley will be working closely with ESLC Land staff with monitoring conservation eased properties & managing our preserves. Wesley is from Burtonsville, MD and graduated from University of Maryland with a B.S. in environmental engineering. “This is an

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September 1, 2011

ESLC Announces Fourth Annual Kids Essay and Art Contests!

Eastern Shore Land Conservancy has announced a call for entries for their fourth annual Kids Essay and Art Contest. The Contest is open to all students in grades pre-kindergarten through eight in the six Upper and Mid-Shore Counties including Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne’s, Caroline, Talbot and Dorchester. In both the essay and the poster contest, students will be asked to tell, via the written word or via their artwork, where they like to play and relax on the Shore, what parks they enjoy and what visions and dreams they have for future parks and open spaces. "It has been so exciting to see this program grow over the past four years and we look forward to seeing what our Eastern Shore youth have to say this year about the best places to enjoy the outdoors here on the Shore" said Kristine George, ESLC’s Director of Communications. "We can learn so much from our children about how what places they love and what visions they have for parks and open space here on the Eastern Shore." Art entries are open to grades pre-kindergarten through eight and essay entries are open to grades five through eight. Prizes will be given to the first and second place posters and essays and submissions will be judged by age categories of kindergarten through 2, grades three to five and grades six through eight. Essay prizes will be judged by grades five through eight. Click here to download an Art Contest Application and list of rules. Click here to download an Essay Contest Application and list of rules. Completed essays and posters can be mailed to: ESLC, Kids Essay/Art Contests P.O. Box 169, Queenstown, Maryland 21658. Deadline for submissions is October 28, 2011.

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August 25, 2011

Howard Wood Scholarship

ESLC Announces 2011 Scholarship Winner, Opens 2012 Application Period Queenstown, Maryland – August 25, 2011 – Eastern Shore Land Conservancy (ESLC) announced the first ever recipient of its Howard Wood Memorial Scholarship. Blake Holliday, a resident of East New Market, was recently awarded the $1,000 scholarship at a small awards ceremony held at ESLC’s Queenstown Office. The Scholarship honors a founding board member of ESLC – Howard Wood- who was committed to maintaining the Eastern Shore’s rich rural and agricultural legacy. “I really am honored,” said Holliday, a Chesapeake College student who plans to attend the University of Maryland in 2012. “I appreciate it especially with how the economy is. I hope I can make Mr. Wood proud – I’ll do my best.” The Howard Wood Scholarship was established by the family of the Mr. Wood to honor his lifelong commitment to youth, conservation and the Eastern Shore’s rich rural heritage. ESLC is currently accepting applications for the 2012 scholarship. The scholarship application is open to anyone looking to pursue a career in agriculture, land use planning alternative energy planning or other conservation related field. The competition is open to those who are residents of the six counties ESLC serves – Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot. Applications are available by clicking here. To apply, applicants should fill out an application, provide a high school or college transcript and submit a 500-word original essay describing their response to the following question: Consider the Eastern Shore in the next 25 years – what is your vision for the Shore? What will you do to assure the Eastern Shore remains the rural gem and special place that it is for the future? Please include your academic plans, career aspirations and future goals when responding to this question. “Young people like Blake are the key

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August 22, 2011

Easton Point Photo Exhibition Planned

On Thursday September 1, Eastern Shore Land Conservancy's Center for Towns will host an exhibition of images collected from the community during the past month about what they would love to see or like to have changed at the Easton Point Project property. The Town of Easton owns 11 acres on the Tred Avon River at 672 W. Glenwood Avenue and is looking to the local community for ideas on what to do with it. Attendants will have the opportunity to review and comment on images as well as the chance to discuss ideas with the project's design partner, a landscape architecture studio from Philadelphia University. This is the second step in a five-part community design process. Following the exhibition, the landscape architecture studio will prepare preliminary plans for the property to be presented back to members of the Easton community in November and December. Final plan presentation will take place in the Spring of 2012. "This is an exciting time for the community of Easton and we hope everyone will come see what their neighbors want for Easton's shared waterfront," said Lisetta Silvestri, ESLC's Community Projects Manager. The event will take place September 1 at 6:30pm at the Easton Fire Hall, 315 Aurora Park Drive Easton, MD 21601. Ongoing updates about the project can be viewed at centerfortowns.org. To join the mailing list, please contact Silvestri at 443.988.2347 or lsilvestri@eslc.org

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ESLC Welcomes Garrrett and Tse to Staff

ESLC Announces Fourth Annual Kids Essay and Art Contests!

Howard Wood Scholarship

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