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From one of our frequent Edisto visitors:

"As part of that "tourist population" that developers target, I feel helpless stuck here in Colorado to help stop even more development.    The reason we love the area and come to visit is because it isn't overly developed...yet.  If the docks are put in and more development occurs it doesn't make us want to come and spend our money there, it makes us want to try and find another "Edisto" and that is getting harder and harder to find. 
 
Edisto Island is a rare find and it it would be a great loss to that tourist dollar and a bigger loss to the residents of the Island.  I also believe the population of the Island should include the wildlife you have. It is the reason we come, to see and experience the birds and insects and reptiles and mammals, trees and flowers of your special area.   We can experience "development" everywhere in the US, can't one place maintain the delight of being slow and not as developed?"

Pearle Sandstrom-Smith




Annual Meeting

EIPA's first annual meeting will be October 14, 2008.
We will feature the Honorable Alex Sanders, former
Chief Judge of the SC Court of Appeals, as our keynote speaker.
A panel of experts moderated by Ann Timberlake,
long time activist and Executive Director of the
Conservation Voters of South Carolina, will
discuss the threats facing our island.

Everyone interested in Edisto's
future is Invited!

Registration 5:30 p.m.
Panel discussion at 6:15 p.m. Keynote address at 7p.m.
Dinner to follow

October 14, 2008
Omni Building of the Presbyterian
Church on Edisto Island
click here for more details

Please rsvp by Oct. 4th to reserve dinner
PreserveEdisto@bellsouth.net

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EIPA's annual meeting is underwritten by:
The Huffines Company
sole corporate sponsor

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Founding Organizations

The Edisto Island Preservation Alliance was created by nine
island organizations to work together to preserve Edisto's unique non-commercial, undeveloped, rural agricultural character.

We discuss issues important to the community, work toward consensus, and when necessary take positions and or action as an organization. Our positions and actions do not necessarily reflect the positions of any single organization other than EIPA.

You can reach the founding organizations or learn more about them at:

Edisto Island Community Association
Edisto Island Community Association

Edisto Island Open Land Trust
www.edisto.org

Edisto Island Historic Preservation Society
www.edistomuseum.org

Town of Edisto Beach
www.edistochamber.com/town.php

Edisto Beach Property Owners' Association
EBPOA
www.ebpoa.org

The Friends of Edisto Beach
Friends of Edisto Beach

Edisto Island Chamber of Commerce
www.edistochamber.com

The Fire Ants
The Fire Ants

Edisto Pride
EdistoPride
www.edisto.org/events.htm

EIPA is incorporated within the state of SC as a not-for-profit organization. We have our own Board of Directors and bylaws.
We speak for EIPA's members and on behalf of the people of Edisto Island. The individual organizations that founded us do
not control our actions and are not responsible for those actions.

From our beginning the South Carolina Department of Natural
Resources has extended a helping hand to EIPA through their NERR program (National Estuarine Research Reserve).
They provided advice and staff assistance in getting EIPA organized,
up and running. We gratefully acknowledge that help.


You may learn more about DNR and NERR at:
www.dnr.sc.gov
or
www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/NERR/index.html

The South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources does not influence
our decisions or actions and is not responsible for our positions.

 

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