Last month we celebrated Earth Day. It was the 40th anniversary of the event that raised national and then worldwide awareness of the plight of our environment. Since the first Earth Day in 1970 a lot has been accomplishedtoward reversing the potentially devastating impact that just one species has had on this little blue dot [...]
Here are the results of the March 19, 2010 SVAS election:
President: Ross Gorman
Vice President: Walt Heiges
Secretary: Charles Real
Treasurer: Kirk Alexander
Directors:
Molly Gallagher
Perry Preston Porter
Lynda Hall
Terry Sandbek
Forrest Lockhart
Gary Shuluk
SVAS Election Time
The annual election of Officers and Directors takes place Friday, March 19 at Sacramento City College, Room 3 at 8:00pm. Only members in good standing as of the January general meeting will be given a ballot. All members and prospective members are encouraged to come to the meeting to learn about what is in [...]
Cosmo Garvin of the Sacramento News & Review wrote a column about our February speaker, Dr. Kimberly Ennico, which was published on March 4, 2010. You can read it at the link below:
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1380296
Will Lynda ever finish hers?
by Lynda Hall
Thanks to Lonnie, I’ve been inspired to finish the mirror and scope I started about 6 years ago at Cary Chleborad’s telescope workshops. I’m almost finished making my own mirror and am ready to start designing the scope itself.
For those interested in the mirror-making process, I started with [...]
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