The Columbus Audubon chapter is delighted to welcome our own Columbus Zoo's CEO, Tom Stalf and zoo guests, to our Tuesday, March 25 evening program. Tom program is about What's New at the Zoo! We hope you will join us for a special evening. During our short program, you will hear 8th grader Emma Bennett a TEDxYouth Poetry Winner, passionately discuss humanity's effect on the environment and endangered animals. Visit our website for more information http://www.columbusaudubon.org/ Columbus Audubon co-program chairs: Nadya Bennett and Darlene Sillick March 25, 2014: "What's New at the Zoo?" - Tom Stalf, President and CEO of the Columbus Zoo Please join us on Tuesday, March 25 as Tom Stalf, President and CEO of the Columbus Zoo tells us What's New at the Zoo! You will meet some special guests that Tom and zoo animal handlers will bring along: live animal friends from the Zoo. Make an evening of it! Before Tom's presentation, join us at 6:00 pm for Columbus Audubon's annual Member's Dinner ( <http://www.columbusaudubon.org/index.php/component/content/article/70-merch andise/100th-anniversary/1228-annual-dinner-reservation> advance registration required). If you cannot join us for dinner, you still are welcome to attend the program. Here's the schedule for the night: 6:00 - 6:50 pm: Columbus Audubon annual dinner (pre-register by Sunday March 23 with Julie Davis ([log in to unmask]) 7:00 - 7:15 pm: CA Short Program: Emma Bennett, 8th grader and a TEDxYouth Poetry winner, will discuss endangered animals and humanity's effect on the environment from her perspective as a young student. Columbus Audubon programs are free and open to the public. All programs are held at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center 505 West Whittier Street in the Scioto-Audubon Metro Park on the Whittier Peninsula. Be sure to sign in and get your door prize ticket! No bird quiz this month. Here is a preview of our April 22 Earth Day Columbus Audubon program: April 22, 2014: "Earth Day 2014: A Celebration of Ohio's Greatest Natural Resources" - Jim McCormac, Ohio Division of Wildlife Avian Education Specialist. Short program: "Unconventional Conservation: Highways as Habitat for the American Kestrel" - Amanda Duren, Program Coordinator for Ohio Bird Conservation Initiative. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]