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Show Evironment Awards ft. Dinner Scheduled The Second Annual Utah Environment Center Awards Dinner will be held at 7:30 p.m. December 5 at the Rodeway Inn in Salt Lake City. Approximately 300 to 350 Utah business, civic, industrial indus-trial and environmental personnel per-sonnel are expected to attend at-tend the dinner. The speaker for the evening eve-ning will be Mr. Gladwyn Hill, National Environmental Environmen-tal Correspondent for the New York Times; and the highlight of the evening will be the presentation of the 1974 Award for Outstanding Environmental Achievement. Achieve-ment. The ticket prices for the dinner will be: $25.00 for singles, $50.00 for couples, and $200.00 for a table of 10. All amounts are tax deductible de-ductible with the exception of $5.50, the cost of the dinner. Proceeds from the dinner will assure the continuing success of the UtahEnviron-ment UtahEnviron-ment Center (UEC) which represents one of the outstanding out-standing constructive environmental en-vironmental efforts in Utah. The UEC is a non-profit organization which provides a number of environmental services for the Salt Lake area and the entire state. Some of the services and accomplishments of the personnel per-sonnel at the Center are the following: 1. They maintain a speakers speak-ers bureau and an environmental environ-mental library. This past year they provided over 40 teachers and 8,000 students with programs concerning ecology; and assisted approximately ap-proximately 150 university and high school students gather information in the library lib-rary at the Center. 2. They provide recycling information and this past year conducted and researched re-searched a comprehensive volunteer recycling program pro-gram to be adopted and implemented im-plemented by the state. 3. They publish a bimonthly bi-monthly newsletter which, among other things, brings attention to environmental issues. 4. They maintain a roster of environmental groups and governmental agencies. 5. They evaluate environmental environ-mental impact statements (over a dozen were evaluated evaluat-ed this past year). For further information about the center or to make reservations for the dinner please contact the Utah Environment En-vironment Center, 1247 Wilmington Ave., Salt Lake City, 84106 (phone: 467-0433) 467-0433) or contact Dorrie Spurlock (phone: 649-9070 after 5:30 p.m.) Your support of the UEC either by attendingthe dinner or by sending a donation is urgently needed and will be used in a variety of ways which will help make your environment a more healthful health-ful and more pleasant place in which to exist. |