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By Tamara Lee Pinard
VLMP Board President
Hello. My name is Tamara Lee Pinard and I am pleased to be the new VLMP Board President. I have served on the VLMP Board since the summer of 2005 and it is the best volunteer position I have ever had. First and foremost, I am involved with an organization whose quality is unmatched. This is demonmstrated to me at the Annual meeting each year where volunteers are honored for 5, 10, 15, 20+ years of service. You don’t see this with most volunteer or- ganizations. Second, I am able to learn new things every step of the way— whether through volunteers or experts who present at the Annual Meeting, articles in The Water Column, or merely interacting with the experienced and knowledgeable staff, board members and volunteers. Third, the staff at the VLMP go out of their way to make each and every volunteer feel appreciated. (And then, of course, there is the VLMP Holiday Party a.k.a. the best party you ever travelled through a snow storm for! —mark your calendars now for December 10th).
This is an exciting time for the VLMP. We now own the Brackett Center, which will help us build a stronger and more sustainable organization and allow us to explore more educational opportunities for volunteers and the public. We are also preparing to enter our 40th year of monitoring Maine’s lakes and ponds, which makes us the oldest volunteer lake monitoring program in the country (and by my estimation—the best). We have grown nearly 158 times our size from our inception in 1971 when we monitored three lakes to today, when we are monitoring 474 lakes. I wholeheartedly believe that the great dedication and commitment of staff and volunteers have made this growth possible. We have grown into a volunteer monitoring program that is well respected in both Maine and around the country. Thank you for your efforts to make this possible. I look forward to another 40 years!
Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program
vlmp@mainevlmp.org
24 Maple Hill Road, Auburn, ME 04210
(207) 783-7733
www.MaineVolunteerLakeMonitors.org
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