LIFEGUARD TRAINING COURSE
College Station Parks & Recreation & Texas A&M Pool Management will'
be holding the National Pool & Waterpark Training Course on January 9,
10& 11, 1990.
January 9 6-10 pm College Station Community Center
January 10 12-3 & 7-11 Texas A&M Indoor Pool
January 11 12-3 & 7-11 Texas A&M Indoor Pool
This course is for anyone wanting to obtain E&A Lifeguard Certification.
Call College Station Parks & Recreation, 764-3773, for more information.
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Chase supports the Sierra Club,
the Wilderness Society and the
World Wildlife Federation.
Although Chase is not a member
of Texas Environmental Action Co
alition, a campus organization, she
said she probably will join in the fu
ture.
“I see them as the only option on
campus right now to get anything
done,” she said.
But Chase does more than send
money through the mail. She is en
thusiastic about starting an educatio
nal club, as part of TEAC or inde
pendently, on campus that would
present a conservation program ev
ery two months.
The educational club could pre
sent conservation programs at the
request of any group. Chase said.
She said many clubs do not include
conservation in their agendas.
“If they give us a night, we’ll give
them a program,” she said.
Educating individuals about their
role to keep the community clean is
also a goal of Brazos Beautiful, Inc.
Brazos Beautiful Inc. is a volun
teer organizaton with one paid em
ployee, Diane Craig, who serves as
executive director. Craig said many
people don’t think about preserving
the environment.
★“This is why Brazos Beautiful
Inc. sponsors programs that help ev
eryone, while raising awareness,”
she said.
Such programs as Adopt-a-High-
way, the Big Event, a memorial-tree
program and a crepe-myrtle-plant-
ing program get the community in
volved in cleaning up and beautify
ing the area, Craig said.
★ Brazos Beautiful Inc. spon
sored a “Trash-Out” on Nov. 4 to
clean up litter on Texas Avenue for
economic, as well as aesthetic and
health reasons, Craig said. Busi
nesses do not want to locate in a dirty
community, she said.
The group also promotes recy
cling in the area by maintaining re
cycling bins in parking lots around
town. Craig said recycling not only
prevents litter, but saves natural re
sources.
She said although Brazos Beauti
ful, Inc. gets strong community sup
port, it cOuld use more because it
helps everybody.
“We cross economic strata,” she
said. “We exist totally for the citizens
of Brazos County.”
Liz Edwards, co-president of
TEAC, said TEAC also promotes
paper and aluminum can recycling.
“Recycling is the First place TEAC
gets people,” she said. “Recycling
makes conservation very easy for ev
eryone.”
Edwards said one of her favorite
TEAC programs is BioCamp, a sum
mer program at the College Station
Community Center to educate chil
dren in kindergarten through
eighth grade about environmental
issues.
TEAC members also have written
letters protesting Icelandic whaling
and President Bush’s apparent lack
of action on the rain forest issue.
Edwards said she would like to see
TEAC become as prominent as the
Student Council On National Affairs
and the Jordan Institute, two MSC
groups that regularly bring nation
ally recognized speakers to A&M.
“I think we’re as important as
those groups,” she said.
The Sierra Club is another Brazos
County organization that aims at in
creasing the community’s apprecia
tion for nature and involving others
in conservation.
“(The Sierra Club) is giving peo
ple who aren’t necessarily students a
chance to get involved,” Michael
Worsham, Sierra Club vice chair,
Recycling is the first
place TEAC gets people.
— Liz Edwards,
co-president, TEAC
said. “Some people who I’ve talked
to didn’t want to get involved with a
group (made up) primarily of stu-.
dents.”
The Sierra Club sponsors an out
ing once a month, Worsham said.
He said the Sierra Club participated
in the Texas Land Office’s Texas
Coastal Cleanup in September and
helped clean up Matagorda Island.
In October, the Sierra Club went
to the Big Thicket State Preserve in
East Texas, and group members
participated in hikes, canoe trips and
discussion groups.
People can learn about the Sierra
Club in several ways, Worsham said.
Local businesses, such as Half Price
Books, Records and Magazines and
Brazos Natural Foods, distribute
fliers and membership cards. The
national Sierra Club office also mails
out membership forms.
Ducks Unlimited is another^
that has grown steadily. Dj
Chairman Mike Byington saioj
non-profit, fund-raising
tion has an extensive networkofil
land restoration projects
reaches throughout three county
Canada serves as a bret
ground for 70 percent of kJ
American water fowl, ByingtorJ
He said the group has expandtl
restoration to wintering grounef
well as breeding grounds in Car;
the United States and Mexico
Ducks Unlimited has coiti|)(
alxmt 3,600 projects to restorcia
than five million acres, BvtJ
said. Projects include wetlands
ation and flood control.
The group spent $60 i
wetland habitat restoration in l|
Byington said. Ducks Unlimite
involved with five projects in Taj
Mike Palermo, Ducks Unlii
banquet committee member, s
ducks breed in shallow pondsn
easily dry up. Therefore, Duels!
limited creates swamp areas j
ducks and other wildlife. ThisJ
ducks have a better chanceforsil
val, and then they migratesouil
said.
Palermo said an annual basil
provides the main source of fj
for Ducks Unlimited, with tlien
jority of the money going totlJ
tional chapter.
He said the group also s* (j
funds from businesses, and i
have get-togethers throughout
year. This year they had thef
Ducks Lbilimited golf tournamet:
Audubon Society PresidentliJ
Arnold said his group supponsi
Brazos Valley Museum and;
l exas Breeding Bird Project.