Friday, February 13th
Registration: Registration begins at 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. at the Meadowlands School
Catered Dinner: 6:00 p.m. Menu is: Pasties and gravy and cole slaw with fruit bars for dessert plus coffee and cider. There will be a vegetable lasagna for vegetarians.
Program Begins at 7:00 p.m.
Speaker: Larry Weber
Saturday, February 14th
Field Trips: All Day
Registration: Registration begins at 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. at the Meadowlands School
Catered Dinner: 6:00 p.m. Menu is: Roast beef, creamed chicken breast, scalloped potatoes, California medley vegetables, cole slaw, homemade bread, dessert, coffee and punch.
Program Begins at 7:00 p.m.
Speaker: Al Batt
Sunday, February 15th
Field Trips: All Day
The Speakers
Larry Weber has been a science teacher for 35 years. He has taught students from seventh grade up to graduate school. His awards include the Minnesota Secondary Science Teacher of the Year in 1993 and the National Biology Teacher Association's Middle School Life Science Teacher of the Year for 1998. Larry presents a weekly phenology column for a local newspaper and is a regular contributer to the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. He lives with his wife on an old farm in Carlton County, Minnesota where he watches, photographs and writes about critters.
Al Batt of rural Hartland, Minnesota is a writer, speaker, storyteller and humorist. Al writes five weekly humor and nature columns for many newspapers, and does a show three times per week about nature on a number of radio stations. He writes a number of popular cartoon strips that are syndicated nationally and has written jokes for a former President of the United States. He has written for a number of magazines and books, including the Chicken Soup For the Soul series, a contributing author to the book, Minnesota Bird Watching and is a columnist for Naturescape News. He does thoughtful, clean and humorour talks that allow those in the audience to laugh and learn.
Al appears each week on “Memories and Musings by Al Batt” on KSMQ-TV. He has written for the movies, speaks at various festivals, conferences, and conventions all over the United States. He has been named Birder of the Year by WildBird Magazine. Al has also received the Ed Franey Conservation Media Award from the Izaak Walton League.
Al leads tours to such places as Alaska and Ecuador, disappears into the woods whenever he is able, usually on the pretext that he is “taking the dog for a walk,” and speaks to anyone who will listen.
Best of all Al's mother thinks he is special.