| About 100
members and guests of
Last Stand attended our Annual
Membership Meeting Wednesday, January 25.
For the second year, we met at Tropic Theater in
Key West, a splendid venue for such an event.
Before the
business meeting, we enjoyed a chit-chat hour
and refreshments in the lobby (photo at right).
Dennis
Henize, President, began the business meeting
with a brief rundown on the past year's
activities and accomplishments, and outlined
challenges for 2006. Acting Treasurer Rick
Boettger delivered a treasurer's report. |
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Election of the 2006 Board of Directors
followed. With the addition of Michael
MacLeod, we begin 2006 with sixteen
Directors.
Awards
presentation was next. Here (photo at
left), VP Rosi Ware presents Bob Goldman
with Last Stand's
Outstanding Activist of the Year award.
Bob was co-honoree with Eric Dadd, who was
unable to attend. Bob and Eric are two
outstanding attorneys who worked very hard
on the Watermark case, representing
neighbors in fighting an oversized
development that was planned for the
Historic Seaport area. (For more information
on Last Stand's
award presentation see the press release by
clicking
here.) |
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| Attorney Henry
Lee Morgenstern (photo at right) was
Last Stand's
keynote speaker. His talk was entitled
“The FEMA Injunction: Where it Came From, Where We
Go From here". Morgenstern represents
national environmental groups which brought the suit
against FEMA for writing subsidized flood insurance
in federally endangered wildlife habitat. In
his talk, Morgenstern explained that the injunction
is not as onerous as Keys local politicians make it
out to be, and that the case is a result of
government agencies ignoring each other on important
matters. For more information on Morgenstern's
talk at Last Stand's
meeting,
click here. |
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Last
Stand thanks
Tropic
Theater for accommodating our meeting, and for the tremendous
community service they provide, not only for the kind of quality
cinema they provide, but for the warm and lovely surrounding they
have created.
And we most heartily thank
the following fine Key West eateries for the delicious pre-meeting
munchies:
Blue Heaven -- 729 Thomas Street
Michael's
-- 532 Margaret Street
Eric's Bottega - Italian Deli -- 728 Simonton Street |
