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| 2011 Newsletter |
| Our 2011 Newsletter is in the mail! You can also download it now. |
 Fall 2011 |
| 2011 BIC Annual Meeting |
| Sunday, October 2, 2011 3:00pm St Andrews Parish Center Guest Speaker: RIDEM Director Janet Coit |
| 9/2011 Letter to Members |
| We are extremely grateful for your support and encouragement, and very much look forward to seeing you and hearing your thoughts on October 2nd. |
| Conserfest 2011 |
| Thursday, July 14, 2011 Beach Event Fred Benson Town Beach All ages, 11am-4pm Deck Event McGovern's Yellow Kittens Deck All ages, 4pm-6pm Main Event McGovern's Yellow Kittens 21+, 9:30pm-1am St Andrews Parish Center |
| For more information visit www.Conserfest.org |
| CRMC unaimously rejected Champlin's Marina expansion January, 2011. Since then, Champlin's has filed an appeal in Superior Court. |
| For more informaion CLICK HERE. |
| New Legislation Extends IRA Charitable Rollover |
| On December 17, 2010, new legislation was passed extending the IRA charitable rollover until December 31, 2011. As a result, people aged 70 ½ and older have a special tax-free opportunity to hake a charitable gift of a lifetime. The new law allows you to transfer up to $100,000 of your IRA assets for each of 2010 and 2011 directly to a qualified public charity such as Block Island Conservancy. Since the assets you transfer will not be recognized as income, they will not trigger federal income taxes today or estate tax in the future. |
| Block Island Student's Photo Project |
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| BIC director and Secretary Shannon Cotter Marsella, who is also a teacher at the Block Island School, is reintroduced the photo project from four years ago to a new group of 5th, 6th, and 7th graders. The students were again asked what they love about Block Island and what they still want to see here in twenty years. The project started January 2010 and continued until May 2010 in order to cover different seasons. The results were hung a BIC's 2010 annual meeting. They are currently hanging at the Block Island School. The 2006 Photo Project currently hangs at the Island Free Library. |
| 2011 calendars are for sale at the Block Island School and Island Bound Bookstore. |
| CLICK HERE for the 2010 results! |
| 2010 BIC Annual Meeting |
| Sunday, October 17, 2010 1:00pm St Andrews Parish Center Guest Speaker: Senator Jack Reed |
| 9/2010 Letter to Members |
| The results are in for BioBlitz 2010 on BI |
| Saturday, October 16, 2010 4:30pm Harbor Church An Entertaining discussion about the discoveries of BioBlitz 2010 on Block Island, followed by an Art and Science reception at Island Gallery located in the Post Office building. |
| Announcement |
| Block Island Beach Clean Up |
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| BIC Wedding Gift & Favors |
| Looking for wedding favors or a different way to "register"? |
| CLICK HERE for more information about BIC Wedding Gift & Favors! |
| RI Natural History Survey |
| BioBlitz Event Friday - Sunday, June 11th-13th 2010 |
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| click here for a pdf of the flyer |
| Missed the event, but are interested inthe results? CLICK HERE for an article from the Block Island Times about the event. |
| IRS Offers Tips for Year-End Donations |
| * Contributions are deductible in the year made. Thus, donations charged to a credit card before the end of 2009 count for 2009. This is true even if the credit card bill isn’t paid until 2010. Also, checks count for 2009 as long as they are mailed in 2009 and clear, shortly thereafter. * Special charitable contributions for certain IRA owners is a provision, currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2009, offers older owners of individual retirement accounts (IRAs) a different way to give to charity. An IRA owner, age 70½ or over, can directly transfer tax-free up to $100,000 per year to an eligible charity. This option, created in 2006, is available for distributions from IRAs, regardless of whether the owners itemize their deductions. For additional information click here. (Internal Revenue Service) |
| Block Island Students' Photo Project Returns |
| BIC director and Secretary Shannon Cotter Marsella, who is also a teacher at the Block Island School, is planning on reintroducing the photo project from four years ago to a new group of 5th, 6th, and 7th graders. The students will again be asked about what they love about Block Island and what they still want to see here in twenty years. The project started January 2010 and will continue until May 2010 in order to cover different seasons. Former director Gail Ballard Hall is assisting with the project. We look forward to seeing the results at next year's annual meeting. |
| CLICK HERE for the 2010 results! |
| Save the Great Salt Pond |
| The Great Salt Pond belongs to all of us and is not for sale, nor should substantial portions of it be permitted to be taken for private, commercial purposes. Please help us in this very important fight. For more informaion and to find out how you can help, CLICK HERE! |
| We're on Facebook |
| If you are a Facebook user, make sure you join BIC's page! Keep up to date with what 's happening and how you can be a part of land conservation on Block Island. |
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