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Together for Community


The 29th Conservation Dinner takes place on Thursday, April 12, 2018 at South Huron Recreation Centre, 94 Victoria Street East, Exeter, Ontario. You are invited to donate to the auction to support projects in local communities. It is expected that tickets will be available before the Christmas holiday season.

 
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Larry Taylor (at left in photo) congratulates his fellow Co-Chair, Jim Beckett, after they were selected, by the Conservation Dinner Committee, to be Co-Chairs of the 29th Conservation Dinner. The Dinner Committee announced the charitable auction gala is to be held on Thursday, April 12, 2018. The two volunteers said they were honoured to be chosen to Co-Chair the committee that is supporting a community effort that has raised more than $1.1 million, over almost three decades, for conservation projects and improvements in local communities. The auction is not until April of 2018 but the community committee has already started to meet to plan another successful event. The Committee invites donors to donate to the charity auction and tickets are expected to be available for purchase as early as December.

To find out more visit this link: 
Watch for tickets this holiday season!

Gift the gift of community this December
Phone 519-235-2610 or 1-888-286-2610 or email Publicity Committee at info@conservationdinner.com to find out how to donate to this worthwhile cause. 

Thanks to the donors, patrons and guests, volunteers, artists and other supporters of the Conservation Dinner. Thanks to you, you have raised more than $1.1 million over the past 28 years for projects in local watershed communities.
The Conservation Dinner is a charitable community fundraising gala of the Exeter Lions Club and the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation in partnership with donors and sponsors, patrons and guests, artists and community volunteers throughout the watershed. 

Please contact us if you would like to donate or volunteer or buy tickets for this important, and fun, community event.

A Partnership Effort


Celebrities from the world of business, entertainment, sports, journalism, and science have served as emcees and special guests and some of the area’s finest artists – in media such as metal, ice and wood sculpture and fine art and culinary arts – have been featured.



Past honorees named as Conservation Dinner feature artist include: Iceculture Inc. (2017); Jim Dawe, Murals in Metal (2016); James Eddington, Culinary Feature Artist (2015); Tammy Laye (2014; 1990-1995); Madeleine Roske (2013); Martin Zimmer (2012); Catherine Weber (2011); Fran Roelands (2010); Bill Nieuwland (2009); David Bannister (2008); the late Tim Clark (2007 and 1997); Teresa Marie (2006); Rae Ann Ladouceur (2005); Elisabeth Tonner-Keats (2004); Randy Jones (2003); Fred Negrijn (2002); Ken Jackson (2001); Kent Wilkens (2000); Barry Richman (1999); Flora Doerr (1998); and Peter Etril Snyder (1996).

In 28 years of fundraising dinners, this charitable event has raised more than $1.1 million for community parks, accessible trails and conservation areas, recreation and education and job experience opportunities for young people, nature areas and commemorative woods, and other community projects of the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation and the Exeter Lions Club.
Copyright © 2017 Conservation Dinner Committee c/o Ausable Bayfield Conservation, All rights reserved.


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