JULY/AUGUST NEWS 2000
        The Corpus Christi Experiment VX Nerve Agent Disposal by Bill Alling
                  Should This City Be the Waste Dump
              for Chemical Weapons Residue?? 
                Bill Alling's Letter to The Caller-Times
       
  URGENT!  LAST CHANCE TO INFLUENCE ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS FOR THE TEXAS COAST
                  This summer is a critical time for the future of the shrimp industry and the future of the endangered sea turtles
                  and the whole ecology of the Texas Coast. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
                  Email Paul Hammerschmidt to facilitate proposed Southern Closure Regulation
      
             KEMPS RIDLEY TURTLE UPDATE by Mina Williams &Venice Scheurich

       Governor George Bush: His Environmental Legacy by Pat Suter
            EARTH DAY 2000 by Pat Suter
               
      
                                        COASTAL BEND GROUP

• EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

         * Pat Suter                   852-7938              Chairman
            PHSUTER@aol.com

         * Randy Berryhill        883-0586        Vice Chairman

         * Judy Tor                  241-2605                Treasurer

         * Dorothy McLaren   883-0435                 Secretary

•   COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
  
  * Henry Berryhill     883-0586            Conservation
   
  * Randy Berryhill    883-0586             Membership
  
  * Ken Jobe             993-3737             Recycling
  
  * Edith Cosgrove   241-2960             Air Quality
  
  * Cheryl McGrath   883-9778             Web Master
    csmcgrath@earthlink.net

Next Meeting: Tuesday September 19, 2000

The next meeting  is still scheduled forl September 19 and will be held at the
Art Community Center as usual.
Art Community Center, 100 Shoreline
Lunch, 11:15 a.m., Business meeting, 12:15 p.m.
(You may bring your lunch to the business meeting if your
time is limited.)

DATES TO PLAN FOR:
  NOW!! Email Paul Hammerschmidt to facilitate proposed Southern Closure Regulation
See URGENT! article for more info.

July 18
Shrimp hearing in Corpus Christi at TAMU-CC in the Resource Center, room
1003 at 7 p.m. Please try to be there so that we can ask for more protection
for the endangered turtles.
August 29
(Early notice). The city of Corpus Christi is hoping to found a Tax
Increment District on Padre Island with the goal of dredging Packery
Channel. This is in spite of the negative vote of the public last
summer. Same old same old. More on this development next month, but plan to
attend the hearing.

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