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Jennifer Lavery, Group Chair

The Northeastern Group and the Sierra Club as a whole is made up of individuals and smaller groups of people that gather together to work on one thing: Protection of our environment.  That is the Grass Roots of our organization.  Without local members interested and willing to put the time, energy and organization into working on various issues nothing will happen.  Your local group is 100% volunteer. Everyone you see acting on behalf of the Sierra club is a member like you that has just decided that the issues are too important to ignore and has given their volunteer time to change things.  Below you can see the 11 counties that our group covers:

Counties in the Northeastern Group

  1. Bradford: Power Plant

  2. Carbon:

  3. Columbia:

  4. Lackawanna: Moosic Mt, Landfills, Watershed Land

  5. Luzerne: Watershed Land, Nescopeck State Park, Sugarloaf Quarry, Hazleton Gas Pollution, Proposed Inflatable Dam

  6. Pike:

  7. Schuylkill:

  8. Sullivan:

  9. Susquehanna:

  10. Wayne: Windmills

  11. Wyoming:

Every place that there are people, there are issues either from the past, present or future that impact the local environment.

What local issues do we have? Right now our group is active on several issues through the interest and time that some of our members have given.  And even though we may not be the lead group working on many of these issues we have tried to help through: letters, attending meetings/events, interviews with the local media and articles in this newsletter.  Though there are other ways that the Sierra Club can get involved: Litigation (law suits), Lobbying (hold elected officials accountable! And let them know how we feel!), Protests (increase public awareness of the issue!) and taking proactive approaches (stop it before it happens!) All of these activities require something that only you can give- volunteer time. I have listed above several local issues, some counties do not have issues after them though I am sure there are issues local to where you live, please update me.

There are many issues that you can become active with that are local to every community: Energy Conservation, Sprawl, Living Simply, Wildlife Habitat, Water Resources, Transportation, Politics… to mention a few…

Please consider becoming an active Sierra Club volunteer. I am looking for local members who would like to become volunteers and liaisons to local issues.  Including the ones listed above.  Please contact me if you are interested or just clip out and return the information below: Jennifer Lavery, mail: PO Box 1311, Scranton PA 18501, call: 570/654-2562, e-mail: jenlavery@aol.com

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Return to: Jennifer Lavery, PO Box 1311, Scranton PA 18501

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