[mou] Al Batt speaking at MRVAC on Thursday

[Steve Weston]

You are invited to the Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter meeting this 
Thursday (9/27).  Please, note the location is different from our home of 
recent years.  Al Batt, Minnesota's resident humorist birder will be 
speaking at on "Stories from a life gone to the birds".  The meeting starts 
at 7pm with a social time and the session starts at 7:30.   Our meetings are 
free and open to the public.

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 is a contributing author to the book, Minnesota Bird 
Watching. He speaks at various festivals, conferences, and conventions all 
over the United States. He has been named Birder of the Year by WildBird 
Magazine and received the Ed Franey Conservation Media Award from the Izaak 
Walton League. Al leads tours to Alaska, disappears into the woods whenever 
he is able, usually on the pretext that he is "taking the dog for a walk,"

We will be meeting at The Minnesota Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 
is located at 10715 Zenith Ave S in Bloomington, south of Old Shakopee Road 
just west of Xerxes Ave.  To get there take the I-35w 98th Street exit in 
Bloomington.  If you have any questions, call me at 612-978-3993.

Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN
MRVAC Program Chair
sweston2 at comcast.net