Committee and Meetings
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We have a Thurston Nature Center Committee (TNCC) that is a committee of the Thurston Elementary Parent Teacher Association. The TNCC consists of around eleven members who volunteer and act as stewards for the Nature Center.
The current Thurston Nature Center Committee members are:
- Praveena Ramaswami, Chair (email: chair *)
- Jim Vallem, Land Steward (email: steward *)
- Michael Tucker, Land Steward
- Smita Malpani, Water Steward
- Holly Zechar, Treasurer (email: treasurer *)
- Pam O’Neal, Secretary
- Kristen Cella, Thurston PTO Representative
- Mary Manthey, School/Teacher Representative
- Amy Creten, OHAC Pools Representative
- OPEN, Communications Chair
- Jeffrey Hamilton, At Large
- Beth Caldwell, At Large
- Colin Brooks, Website
* Add @thurstonnaturecenter.info to get full email address
Policies
Policies and information are available in the Thurston Nature Center Manual (PDF).
TNC Bylaws By-laws and committee roles.
Meeting Minutes
- December 12, 2024
- November 19, 2024
- October 21, 2024
- September 17, 2024
- June 20, 2024
- June 7, 2024 (meeting with AAPS to discuss new Thurston School building, to be built starting 2025)
- May 14, 2024
- February 13 2024
- November 10, 2022
- March 3, 2022
- October 7, 2021
- Sept 21, 2021
- April 15, 2021
- March 11, 2021
- January 14, 2021
- October 10, 2020
- March 5, 2020
- December 5, 2020
- November 7, 2019
- October 3, 2019
- September 5, 2019
- June 6, 2019
- May 2, 2019
- April 4, 2019
- March 7, 2019
- February 7, 2019
Older minutes:
- April 19, 1996 – First known mention of a TNCC website, and mention of an email from Bill Stapp and TNC being on the World Wide Web (a.k.a. internet) for the first time.
