As Cleveland area birders may have read in the papers recently, Oakwood Golf
Course is for sale in Cleveland Heights/South Euclid. There are efforts in
play to turn this land into a park.
Those of us who love wildlife are excited for this opportunity, but it will
take a major effort because the cities do not have money to buy the land.
I, myself, am not in a position to gather up and provide all the details at
the moment, but I wanted to make interested locals aware of a meeting
sponsored by the Severance Neighborhood Organization
(www.heightsSNO.org<http://www.heightssno.org/>)
at the Cleveland Heights Community Center this *Wednesday, February 3rd
from 7:30 - 9:00 PM. *I believe there is a Facebook page being created
which will be one way to share information about this opportunity.
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Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a group of voices attend the meeting in
support of conservation and also to speak to the economic impact of birders
as well? To support that, we can certainly cite some facts from the
discussion of birder cards going on in another thread today. :)
Thanks!
Katrina Heinzen
Cleveland Heights
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On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:46 AM, H Thomas Bartlett <
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> For the last 10 years or so, various birding groups have been giving
> out cards which birders are to leave at places they visit, shop, eat
> at, etc telling the owners that birders were there and spent money. I
> always wondered how effective they are. Well Paula and I found out.
> Since the early 1990, when I go to the UP of Michigan, I eat at
> Ang-Gio's restaurant at least once over the weekend. It is a good
> Italian resturant. While eating there Saturday night, we got to
> talking with the owner. When I mentioned we were up there birding, he
> got very excited and ran over to the checkout counter. He came back
> with six of these cards which were taped together. They are cards
> from one of Michigan's birding groups and a little different than ones
> I have seen. They had a place for how much was spent. The owner
> proudly showed us that these six cards represented over $1000 in meals
> from just the last couple of weeks. He wanted to know if I had a
> card. I had cards from the Kirtland Bird Club in Cleveland but had
> left them home. Never again! He made sure to tell me that birders
> are always welcome at his place and make sure I tell other birders. I
> doubt if he donates to birder causes but I'll bet he brings up birders
> at chamber of commerce/business meetings. So some progress is being
> made to show the business community that birders are an economic
> force.
>
> Tom
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> H. Thomas Bartlett
> Tiffin, Ohio
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