What: Speaker Series - William Dietrich
When: Thursday, July 17th - 6:30 pm
Where: Old Chapel, Trinity Lutheran Church, 18341 State Route 525, Freeland, WA
Speakers tackle a topic dear to islanders' hearts – Caring for Puget Sound
Pulitzer Prize winning environmental journalist William Dietrich will visit Whidbey this month to kick off the 2008 Island County Beach Watchers speakers series, monthly talks geared to helping Whidbey residents understand, and work to preserve, the health of Puget Sound. Dietrich will present The Battle of Whidbey Island - Loving Puget Sound means fighting locally to save it Thursday, July 17th at 6:30 PM, in the Old Chapel of Trinity Lutheran Church 18341 State Route 525 in Freeland.
A reporter for the Seattle Times, Dietrich won the Pulitzer for his coverage of the Exxon Valdez disaster. He is also a best-selling novelist, author of the historical adventures Napoleon's Pyramids and The Rosetta Key.
In coming months speakers will include wildlife scientists and Island County personnel who work daily to help residents live responsibly in our delicate marine environment. Key topics are changes in water related County regulations that affect homeowners. Striving to entertain as well as inform, the series will feature such talks as: The care and feeding of septic tanks under the new septic rules; Why wetlands are not badlands; and Tempests and Teacups - Protecting our water supply by managing runoff at home.
For more information about the series and Beach Watchers visit www.beachwatchers.wsu.edu or call the Beach Watchers office at 360-678-6714.
Pulitzer Prize winning environmental journalist William Dietrich will visit Whidbey this month to kick off the 2008 Island County Beach Watchers speakers series, monthly talks geared to helping Whidbey residents understand, and work to preserve, the health of Puget Sound. Dietrich will present The Battle of Whidbey Island - Loving Puget Sound means fighting locally to save it Thursday, July 17th at 6:30 PM, in the Old Chapel of Trinity Lutheran Church 18341 State Route 525 in Freeland.
A reporter for the Seattle Times, Dietrich won the Pulitzer for his coverage of the Exxon Valdez disaster. He is also a best-selling novelist, author of the historical adventures Napoleon's Pyramids and The Rosetta Key.
In coming months speakers will include wildlife scientists and Island County personnel who work daily to help residents live responsibly in our delicate marine environment. Key topics are changes in water related County regulations that affect homeowners. Striving to entertain as well as inform, the series will feature such talks as: The care and feeding of septic tanks under the new septic rules; Why wetlands are not badlands; and Tempests and Teacups - Protecting our water supply by managing runoff at home.
For more information about the series and Beach Watchers visit www.beachwatchers.wsu.edu or call the Beach Watchers office at 360-678-6714.
Connie C