Wildlife Center back to rehabbing!
 Thank you to everyone who helped us to meet and exceed the $15,000 challenge grant from an anonymous donor! We received $22,000 from our many caring visitors and members to help keep the Wildlife Center open. The $37,000 is now held in a restricted fund and will keep our Wildlife Center operating (part-time) for a full year and allow us to begin rehabbing birds of prey and reptiles again. Thank you to all!
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Recent grants awarded
Blandford Nature Center wishes to thank:
Bill & Bea Idema Foundation for a $25,000 grant to help with renovations to the visitor center. We hope to begin work soon!
Dyer-Ives Foundation for an $8,000 grant to help with marketing.
Frey Foundation for a $10,000 challenge grant for our new membership program.
O'Donovan Foundation for a $5,000 gift to also serve as a match for our membership program.
With these generous grants, a renewed Blandford is well under way!
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Extra plots available
 We've been able to open up a few new spots in our community garden! If interested, please contact Nick via email or by calling 616-735-6240. Details on our community garden can be found here.
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Dock construction complete
 Dedicated volunteers Joe Schmidt and Marcus Moore spent 92 hours repairing and rebuilding the Daniel Gillette Memorial dock on our cattail marsh. Funds were generously donated by the Gillette family to renovate this dock for all of our visitors to enjoy.
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Thank You!
A special thank you to Melissa and Phil Bass for their tremendous efforts as well as to the bands, sponsors, and volunteers that donated their time to our first-ever Field of Green Festival! We are already planning the 2011 Field of Green Festival so put June 18, 2011 on your calendar.
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