Joe Agg’s Great German Mills Creek clean-up continues every Sunday from October 9th through November.

Gloves and garbage bags will be supplied.  Please dress according to the weather.  Wear long pants and bring rubber boots if you have them.  Drinking water, a hat, sunscreen, bug repellant and a light snack are also recommended.

If you are interested in volunteering for this event or need further information please contact Joe Agg to register.  He can be reached by email: joe.agg@hotmail.com or by phone: (905) 884-5012

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Sunday, October 2, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.

The TRCA event promises to be a fun morning, with lots of activities!

A pancake breakfast is being served, the Ontario Forestry Association has an exciting children’s activity planned, Vaughan and York Region will be leading tours through the woods and a scavenger hunt will be held to engage children in the activities and displays.

Also Richmond Hill Naturalists volunteers are needed! Volunteers are needed to help out  with the display table between 9:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Please contact Marianne Yake as president@rhnaturalists.ca if you are able to help.

Joe Agg, who has been spearheading a major clean-up  of German Mills Creek in Richmond Hill, will be leading a group of volunteers at Baker’s Bush on Oct 2 at 9:30 a.m. Anyone wishing to help should meet at the Baker’s Woods parking lot (1st driveway on the  east side of Thornhill Woods Dr., just north of highway 7, west of Bathurst)

Another lovely greenspace is under threat. The Province of Ontario has plans to build an intermodal transit hub in a natural heritage wildlife sanctuary that lies to the east of Keele Street, at the end of Rockview Gardens, south of Highway #7, and north of the 407.  This area has traditionally provided access to the Bartley Smith Greenway system and is the only greenspace readily accessible to the residents of Concord West.  The residents of the area have worked extremely hard to develop a detailed alternate plan for the transit hub, a plan that would preserve this much-needed greenspace.

If you support the preservation of the Concord West greenspace, please send a message to Premier Dalton McGuinty.

For more information on this issue and the resident’s plan, please see http://saveconcordwest.wordpress.com/

Title: RHN Meeting: Lev Frid talk on The other end of Migration: the lives of Neotropical migrants in the Neotropics
Location: Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church, Wallace Hall. 10066 Yonge St
Start Time: 7:30pm
Date: 2011-03-17

Neotropical Birds: The Other End of Migration

Everyone is invited to join the Richmond Hill Naturalists for an informative and entertaining talk on neotropical birds with Lev Frid.  Lev is a well-known Ontario birder and naturalist, who has followed his passion from the far north to the Andes and beyond. He will show photographs from his travels in Central America to illustrate the lives of Canadian songbirds on their wintering grounds.

Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church,
Wallace Hall, 10066 Yonge St., Richmond Hill
(west side, just north of Major Mackenzie Dr.)

Free admission, all are welcome, donations accepted, parking is free and refreshments will be served.  For more information, contact Marianne Yake, 905-883-3047 or president@rhnaturalists.ca.

Feel free to distribute this poster to anyone who may be interested in attending