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The First Ten Years |
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Sparked by the "gleam in the eye" of a long-term Anacostia Restoration plan, which foresaw the potential effectiveness of very local, citizen-based watershed groups, the first community meeting of people interested in Sligo Creek was held in January 2001, when Metropolitan Council of Governments staffer John Galli recruited long-time Sligo resident Sally Gagne to place a meeting notice in the Gazette weekly newspaper. More than 30 people showed up at the meeting, held in Long Branch Community Center.
That first year, an excited, determined group of people from Silver Spring and Takoma Park worked together to craft bylaws and constitute a Board of Directors, and they established a decade-long pattern of regular program meetings, outdoor work days, and local advocacy within county civic processes. In 2002, Friends of Sligo Creek was incorporated as a non-for-profit organization in the State of Maryland. |
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