At the 2024 AdkAction ‘Family Reunion’ Annual Meeting on August 8th, about 100 AdkAction members, volunteers, partnering nonprofits and businesses, and new friends connected at the Paul Smith’s VIC.
During the event we celebrated our shared successes, including:
- AdkAction’s food security effort has grown to span five counties, helping hundreds of vulnerable households put nourishing meals on the table, while ensuring all those dollars are spent with our local farmers. And as the new host organization for the Adirondack Food System Network, we are working to make sure the Adirondacks has a local alternative to an industrialized, globalized food system.
- Our Clean Water Safe Roads project helped advance a new bill to enact strategies called for in the road salt task force report, and our Don’t Be Salty public outreach campaign is scaling statewide with the help of our partners at the DEC.
- Our Compost for Good project launched four compost outreach campaigns to help more communities be inspired to and learn how to compost their food scraps.
- Next year our Adirondack Pollinator Project will be the first to transform a capped Adirondack landfill into a pollinator meadow oasis.
- Our housing access incubator project will soon be working to convert short term rentals to long term rentals in Adirondack hamlets.
In addition to enjoying seeing old friends and new, playing lawn games, making s’mores, and perusing pictures from AdkAction’s photo archives, members in attendance voted on official annual business, including the installation of the new Executive Committee of the Board of Directors: Elizabeth Ruscitto, Chair; Cindy DeAngelis, Vice Chair; Lee Lamparski, Treasurer; and Charlotte Newbury, Secretary. The event also marked the end of Board Chair Steve Maikowski’s term, and the Board presented him with a canoe paddle to thank him for his time steering the organization forward.
