Volunteering
and Local Chapter Support
Volunteers
are the backbone of the Sierra Club. In an effort to strengthen
our organization we would like some help from our members
with the following tasks.
Contents
Information
Booths. Help pass out information
on Sierra Club activities and actions for a few hours and
enjoy some fun events on the Central Coast.
Stone
Soup Music Faire - August 23, 10am to 6pm and August
24, 11am to 5pm in Arroyo Grande.
San
Luis Obispo Creek Day - September 27, 9am to 3pm.
For
more information call our office at (805) 543-8717
or e-mail us at sierraclub8@gmail.com
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Office
Volunteer Help. Our Chapter Coordinator
needs help providing
information on Sierra Club activities to our members. Can
you help answer the phone? work with the volunteer
database? coordinate events? If so,
call our office at (805) 543-8717 or e-mail us at sierraclub8@gmail.com
The office is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through
Friday.
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Picnic
Help. Do you like to plan
parties?? Our annual picnic is August 23rd and we could use
your help with planning and setup. For details on the picnic
go to the home page link under Programs and Projects and then
call
our office at (805) 543-8717 to lend a hand
or e-mail us at
sierraclub8@gmail.com
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Conservation
Committee Members. The Sierra Club
would love to have you join us on the many conservation issues
in our local area and beyond.. Currently we are concentrating
on protection of the San Simeon Area, Diablo Canyon Nuclear
Power Plant Permit, Duke Power Plant at Morro Bay, National
Estuary Program at Morro Bay, and the Marine Interests Group.
See detail below. Call
our office at (805) 543-8717 or e-mail us at sierraclub8@gmail.com
if you want to help out.
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, where we are
co-intervenors with the Mothers for Peace on PG&E's application
to the NRC to construct an outdoor site for storage of used
nuclear fuel rods. We are Parties in the Central Coast Regional
Water Quality Control Board's hearings on PG&E's permit
to continue to use ocean water for once-through cooling. We
are also participating with the MFP in a petition to the California
Public Utilities Commission to reconstitute the Diablo Canyon
Independent Safety Committee in order to add public outreach
to its responsibilities. We need people to read, analyze,
attend meetings, and write letters.
Duke Power Plant at Morro Bay, where we are working
with the Coastal Alliance on Plant Expansion on eliminating
the high mortality of estuarine larvae and eggs that are sucked
into the cooling water intake. We are urging the use of dry
cooling which uses no estuarine water at all. This will likely
end up as a statewide Sierra Club effort to eliminate once
through cooling for all new or reconstructed plaants in California.
Again, volunteers to read, analyze, attend meetings, write,
and lobby.
National Estuary Program at Morro Bay, where we
participate in key committees that deal with an extensive
MBNEP program to reduce sediment input to Morro Bay, to monitor
Bay water quality and marine life, and to educate the public.
Interested volunteers can help out the program by signing
up for field sampling in the Bay and tributary streams, and
serving as guides in the newly formed museum.
Marine Interests Group, a recently formed body for
which we serve on a Working Committee that is attempting to
bring together all the marine interests on the central coast
and create a long term program for protection of the coastal
region along the lines of a marine sanctuary or equivalent
organization. We need volunteers to attend its meetings and
report to the Conservation Committee.
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Membership,
Programs and Special Events. We
strive to provide quality information to our members and the
general public. We are looking for individuals to help set
up, coordinate and arrange up coming events with the Sierra
Club. A sampling of events we need help for are; our monthly
general meeting program, annual summer picnic, Creek Days,
Earth Day Fair, SLO Botanical Garden Festival, Christmas in
the Plaza, Farmers Market and many more. Call
our office at (805) 543-8717 or e-mail us at sierraclub8@gmail.com
if you want to help out.
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Chapter
Fund Raising for Saving Special Places along the Central Coast.
The Sierra Club has created two special accounts on the
Central Coast. The Morros Preservation and SLO Land Preservation
Fund. In order for these funds to be most effective, we need
help in raising money for these for different projects along
the Central Coast. . As funds are acquired, we can then offer
local organizations grants for match much larger amounts.
Call
our office at (805) 543-8717 or e-mail us at sierraclub8@gmail.com
if you want to help out.
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Outings
Leaders and Leader Assistants. The Santa Lucia Chapter
is looking for individuals to help organize, lead and assist
our current outings program. Help is needed for the Sierra
Singles, Singles Coordinator, Canoe/Kayak Section, Sierra
Campers with Kids, and our regular outings program. No
experience is necessary, we will provide the necessary information
and training to help you get started. Call
our office at (805) 543-8717 or e-mail us at sierraclub8@gmail.com
if you want to help out.
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Trail
Watch Volunteers - With today's declining budget the Forest
Service, State Parks, County of San Luis Obispo continue to
look toward volunteers who travel many of the local trails
surrounding San
Luis Obispo. The volunteers coordinated through the Sierra
Club, or other trail organization may make reports on current
trail and camp conditions, or may be asked to help with building
new trails or maintaining existing ones.
If you
would like to volunteer, help organize the Trail Watch
Volunteers, or just be put on a a mailing list for future
events, call
our office at (805) 543-8717 or e-mail us at sierraclub8@gmail.com
More
information is available on our Trail
Watch Section of the Sierra Club Web Page.
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