[WLT_Announcements] Reminder! Waltham Earth Day tomorrow, April 22nd AND an Invitation to the Waverley Trani Dedication Ceremony

[Karen Patterson]

Just a reminder!  Please come to the 2007 Waltham Earth Day Celebration
Sunday, April 22nd (tomorrow).  Events will take place at the UMass Field
Station (240 Beaver St) and the Cedar Hill Girl Scout Center (265 Beaver
St).  Maps and programs are on our web-site at
www.walthamlandtrust.org/earthday.  Highlights include entertainment for
children (Animal Adventures at 11 AM and 1 PM and Earth Tunes at 2:30 PM)
and adults (presentations on a new climate change study at UMass and a
historical talk about Cornelia Warren, both at 1 PM).  The event is free and
open to the public.  It will run from 10 AM - 4 PM.

 

In addition, Waltham Land Trust members and friends may be interested in the
following:

 

Invitation to the Waverley Trail Dedication Ceremony

 

 Friday, April 27, 2007; 3:30 to 4:30 pm

 

the "Spray Park" 

at the  DCR Beaver Brook Reservation

 ~ 650 Trapelo Road, Belmont

 

If you are like most children and adults who live and work in Belmont and
Waltham, you may have, until recently, been unaware that the Waverley
neighborhood that spans the town line is of international historical
significance. Indeed, the natural beauty in a corner of our towns inspired
the birth of a global conservation movement. That lack of widespread
recognition is about to change.

 

As members of the Waverley Trail Advisory Committee of the Belmont Land
Trust, we invite you to the dedication of the Waverley Trail and tree
planting ceremony this coming Arbor Day, Friday, April 27, 2007.  The event
will take place from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Department of Conservation and
Recreation's (DCR) Beaver Brook Reservation, at the "Spray Park" just south
of the intersection of Trapelo Road and Mill Street in Belmont (next to the
Andros Diner). The event will occur rain or shine; if we have heavy rain,
guides will be on hand to direct you to the nearby Butler School Auditorium.

 

The ceremony will mark the realization of a three year effort by citizens of
Belmont and Waltham, in conjunction with the Belmont Land Trust, the Waltham
Land Trust, the Belmont Historical Society, the Town of Belmont, the City of
Waltham and the Massachusetts DCR to conceive, design and build a
three-quarter mile interpretive trail that celebrates our community and our
natural heritage from Waverley Square to the Waverley Oaks.  The trail,
complete with street banners, kiosks, wall plaques and signposts, tells the
remarkable story of Waverley's early history, and of the grove of
magnificent white oaks living in what is today the Beaver Brook reservation
that inspired the creation of the world's first land trust and the nation's
first regional public park commission. 

 


We hope you can be on hand to join several distinguished guests, citizens
and local school children who will gather for the event. Speakers will
include: the Massachusetts Undersecretary of the Environment, Philip
Griffiths; the Acting Commissioner of the DCR, Priscilla Geigis; State
Senator Steven Tolman; State Representative Will Brownsberger: Belmont
Selectman Paul Solomon; YouthBuild founder Dorothy Stoneman and several
others.  In addition, volunteers from YouthBuild, sponsored by the Eagle Eye
Institute, will plant trees in commemoration of Arbor Day 2007 in both
Belmont and Waltham. Our focus will be the past, present and future of
conservation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Please join us! 

 

 

Waverley Trail Advisory Committee of the Belmont Land Trust

 

Jim Levitt (Chair), Adam Tocci (Vice Chair), Sheila Flewelling, Kathleen
Haverty,

David Johnson, and Steve Savarese; c/o Post Office Box 79218, Waverley, MA
02479; 617-489-7800

 

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