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Learn about our Inspiring Connections Outdoors ProgramMark Walters will be giving us a history of this program and explain all of the ways that this has benefited not only the young people who get to experience the great outdoors, but also bring awareness of the Sierra Club to those who might not otherwise know about our group.
Walters, a brain and spinal researcher at University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, who has also served as chair of the Sierra Club Florida Chapter, has made the ICO program his passion..
For many of the kids, he said, it was the first time they had been kayaking or snorkeling. At the end of a weekend trip to Myakka, he recalls a child saying he didn't want to go home. He wanted to stay out there. "That was priceless to me."
"I think it has changed a lot of their lives." Some kids, he said, are now in college and volunteering. Others have kids of their own.
This meeting will also be our social time together, so we ask those who want to participate to bring a plant-based dish to share with others for dinner before the meeting begins. Vegan meals provide the least impact to the planet while sharing food that we all have in common - food that comes from the earth.
The Pot-Luck meal will begin at 5 pm, and the meeting will start at 6 pm, at Coral Gables Congregational Church, 3011 Columbus Blvd, Coral Gables, in the Fellowship Hall (west entrance).
Contact [email protected] for more info.
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Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ, 3010 De Soto Blvd, Coral Gables, FL 33134-6317, United States,Coral Gables, Florida
