Red Wing Pondhouse

Help Us Build Our Facility and Our Future
The new facility plan will...

	House a new children's learning center.
	Focus on nature and conservation.
	Serve as a workstation.
	Provide residential quarters for a university graduate student/naturalist intern.
	Serve as an energy generation and conservation project.

Special features....

	Geothermal heating
	Photovoltaic generation of electricity
	Solar hot water collectors

A community effort....

	Students of Emmett O'Brien and Platt Technical Schools are constructing the building.
	Ansonia Public Works Department is installing the sewer line, improving the access roads and doing all site work.
	The project will provide opportunities for private contractors to bid on equipment and construction that cannot be provided by the students or city.
	The Friends of the Ansonia Nature Center began this project to provide a learning center which will increase the services and programs of the Nature Center.

Hop on board....

A growing number of individuals and organizations are providing assistance with this project. That still isn't enough.. .we need your help to complete the facility.

Join the likes of....

	the Katharine Matthies Foundation
	the Gates Fund of the Community Foundation For Greater New Haven
	the State of Connecticut
	United Illuminating
	the Friends of the Ansonia Nature Center, Inc.

The Friends of the Ansonia Nature Center, Inc. consists of over 200 members and volunteers from Ansonia and surrounding communities. The group is dedicated to helping the Nature Center carry out its work. The adult volunteers assist the director in coordinating the center's programs, planning the activities, and making things work. It is also the volunteers and Junior Rangers that maintain the trails and help injured animals.

The Ansonia Nature Center....

includes 104 acres of woodland, pond, stream, and fields with two miles of nature trails for teaching, study, and exploration. An interpretive center currently houses a library, office space along with conservation, animal and natural history exhibits. This facility also serves as a hub for a wide range of nature courses and recreational activities. More than anything else, however, the center is people working, learning, helping and having fun together. It is the hundreds of school children who come to the NatureCenter with their classmates to learn about nature and its creatures, to enjoy nature, and to learn to live in harmony with their environment. It is scouts using the center as part of their training. It is families spending time together on an owl prowl or in making syrup. It is young and old discovering the natural world enjoying its peace and tranquility.

"W e h a v e n o t i n h e r i t e d t h e E a r t h f r o m o u r a n c e s t o r s ;
w e h a v e o n l y b o r r o w e d i t f r o m o u r c h i l d r e n"

- Ancient Proverb

Yes, I want to help the Ansonia Nature Center in its work.

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Print out this form and mail your tax deductible contribution to: (Please make checks payable to:)
                                              The Friends of the Ansonia Nature Center, Inc.
                                              10 Deerfield Road
                                              Ansonia, CT 06401

All gifts are tax deductible to the extent of the law.

Recognition will be given in our publications to all supporters contributing $50 or more.
Contributions of $250 or more will be recognized on appropriate plaques in a dedicated exhibit area.

Help Us Build Our Facility and Our Future The new facility plan will...

Help Us Build Our Facility and Our Future
The new facility plan will...