Soundkeeper to speak
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- November
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I talk to Terry Backer a lot when I write about Long Island Sound.
Backer is the Soundkeeper, looking out of the estuary the way the Riverkeeper looks out for the Hudson River. He’s also a member of the Connecticut General Assembly. (That’s what they call the legislature over there.)
Backer is an entertaining guy who’s lived his life on the Sound and looks a lot like a sea captain from an old movie.
Well tomorrow (Nov. 6) anyone can hear him speak at the Fairfield Public Library. He’ll be part of a panel discussion: “Blue Water; Love it or Lose it.”
Here’s the text of the press release:
Please come and listen to Terry Backer, your Soundkeeper, speak!
Please join us at the
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Fairfield Public Library
Rotary Room
1080 Old Post Rd, Fairfield, CT
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007       ÂÂ
 7:00-9:00 p.m.
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Blue Water:
Love it or Lose it…
The State of the Watershed, Downstream Consequences,
Individual Responsibility
Panelists:
Terry Backer, Long Island Soundkeeper & CT State Representative
Sally Harold, Project Director Saugatuck River Watershed Partnership
Curt Johnson, Connecticut Fund for the Environment
Rich White, Fairfield Director of Public Works
Moderator: Mike Burke, The Nature Conservancy
Solution consultants:
Organic land care
Rain gardens & buffer plantings
Pervious surface products
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Refreshments served
Presented by the Fairfield Garden Club.
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