Volunteers will be honored at Tuesday event

Published 12:00 am Monday, April 22, 2002

Volunteers and friends of the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center will be honored Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Ruby Rupner Auditorium.

Music and refreshments will be available, including the song stylings of Ken Lonquist. The singer/songwriter performs for audience of all ages.Invited guests may call 437-7519 or email jchnatur@smig.net.

Also this month at the Nature Center are a variety of events, including dancing with woodcocks and canoe trips as well as the continuing fund-raising effort for land acquisition.

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Major fund-raiser

The "Preserving A Legacy" land acquisition fund-raiser is underway.

Dave Cole and John Beckel are co-chairing the effort for the Friends of the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center

It was 75 years ago, when the son of the founder of Hormel Foods Corporation planted the first of over 200,000 trees and what became the nature Center.

Twice before, the nature Center was expanded from its original 123 acres with

55 additional acres in 1978 and 101 acres in 1984.. The latest land acquisition project involves adding 210 acres to the Nature Center's current 278 acres.

The goal is to add wildlife habitat and increase environmental education opportunities.

The Friends of the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center is seeking to raise $750,000 for land acquisition and restoration in this, the diamond jubilee

year of the creation of what became the Nature Center.

For more information about assisting the project, call the Nature Center at 437-7519.