CCWC reviews progress in annual general meeting

The Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition (CCWC) held its annual meeting last month to address advocacy and networking efforts that occurred throughout last year, while also discussing events on the calendar throughout the coming summer months.

Andrea Hlady, president of the Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition, says the annual meeting is a good way to address what the CCWC has done and what members hope to continue to do throughout the year.

“Our recent annual general meeting was in an effort to provide a recap to all the members that attended,” she says. “We spoke specifically to our advocacy and networking efforts this last year. These efforts included working diligently with our coalition, a group of small and large conservation organizations, to ensure that we provided information to people who were interested in the Castle.”

This year, the turnout for the annual general meeting matched that of the previous years, giving a sense of pride and hope to members of the CCWC that the public’s interest remains in protecting the wildland area that surrounds them.

“We were pleased that the turnout for our AGM this year was similar and consistent with past years meetings. This tells us that people are still passionate about seeing the Castle protected and haven’t waivered in their support of CCWC and this wild place that we all value,” says Hlady.

The Castle Crown Wilderness Coalition was founded in 1989 and has been working to get the Wildland area protected under legislation ever since.

Over the coming months the CCWC has events planned to get the public involved in the hard work they do.

Hlady says the CCWC works hard to keep its surroundings beautiful by organizing events over the summer such as weed pulls and shoreline cleanups.

So far on the agenda the CCWC has a minimum-security camp weed pull on July 10 and an annual West Castle Wetlands Ecological Reserve weed pull on July 25. Within the month of August, two more weed pulls are organized at Front Canyon reclamation and Sartoris Road.

Finally, to finish off the summer activities, the CCWC are participating on Sept. 11 in the 11th annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, where the public is encouraged across the whole of Canada to help remove shoreline litter. The CCWC focus mainly during this cleanup is on Beaver Mines lake as it’s a popular place within the community for outdoor enthusiasts and campers.