Candidates for the Executive Committee Christopher B. Bedford I have been a member of the Sierra Club since 1982. I am currently taking over as editor of the Chapter newsletter and am working with activists on the Eastern Shore on a Club funded farm/environmentalist organizing project. I also am currently producing an organizing videotape on the Chapman's fight in conjunction with Friends of Mount Aventine. I am an advocacy video/film maker and an organizer who has worked extensively in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia and Indiana on toxics and environmental justice issues. I seek a position on the ExComm to help the Club's membership become more involved through better communication, through action on issues of concern to Maryland and through grassroots organizing. Please call me if you have any questions call: (301)-779-1000 or email: cbedford@erols.com Bonnie Bick I am currently Conservation Chair of Sierra Club, Southern Maryland Group. I am a past president of the Maryland Conservation Council, and am currently president of Friends of Mount Aventine, the Charles County organization that has been leading the struggle to preserve the Chapman Forest, a critically situated forest of thousands of acres now threatened by a proposed auto dependent edge city. I am eager to serve on the ExComm to advocate and support activist policies that acknowledge the gravity of our society's condition in regard to both our environment and our political system. If you have any questions please call: (301) 283-2948 or email: foma@radix.net home page: http://www.radix.net/~foma Nancy Davis Please vote for my returning to the Maryland Chapter Executive Committee; it would be my privilege to continue working with in this capacity. Presently I represent Maryland at the the National Council of Club Leaders. Also, I function as your volunteer lobbyist at the Maryland General Assembly and represent the Club at the Citizens Campaign for the Environment. This year I am the Chair of the Howard County Group and Chair of the Maryland League of Conservation Voters. Further, I represent the Sierra Club as a Patuxent River Commissioner. Please feel free to join and work with me in any of these roles to strengthen environmental protections and the Sierra Club. If you have any questions call: (301)-776-6846. Vivian Newman Tip O'Neill's dictum that "all politics is local" has been widely accepted. John Muir's observation that everything environmental is "hitched to the universe" unfortunately is not as widely understood. Environmental leaders face the task of making the connection between these two seemingly contradictory views to motivate more citizens to participate in our democratic processes on behalf of improving public policy affecting the environment--be it local land use or international trade policy. Although I first joined the Sierra Club in Toronto, Canada in 1974, my active participation began in New Orleans, LA (as group conservation chair and chapter lobbyist). After moving to Maryland in 1984, my husband and I restarted the defunct Howard County Group (I served as outings chair). Since the early 1980's I have also served as Chair of the National Coastal Committee (now the National Marine Wildlife and Habitat Committee) and focused on wetlands and coastal nonpoint pollution in conjunction with Club campaigns to reauthorize the Coastal Zone Management Act and the Clean Water Act, and have worked on the same issues at the state level. Please call me if you have questions or wish to discuss your concerns and hopes for the Maryland Chapter: (410)-442-5639. email: Vivian.Newman@sierraclub.org