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Conservation Foundation’s Sunset Supper raises $60,000 for suburban nature projects · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Conservation Foundation’s Sun Supper raises 60,000 for suburban nature projects.
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  Written by Shaw Local News Network. This article is being read by
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  an automated voice brought to you by Everlit. More than two hundred
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  and twenty five people attended the Conservation Foundation's Sunset Supper fundraiser on
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  October first at at the organization's sixty acre McDonald Farm headquarters in
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  Naperville, raising 60,000 Fork, local nature efforts, the group said. Attendees
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  contributed more than 30,000 at the event, and a private donor matched
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  that amount with an additional 30,000, according to a news release. The
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  gathering featured farm-to-table cuisine with organic vegetables grown at McDonald's Farm through
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  the Foundation's Green Earth Harvest Organic Farming Program and prepared by Northern
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  for the organization said. Guests also heard live bluegrass music from the
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  downhillers, sampled sturdy shelter beers and other drinks, watched artists create nature-inspired
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  art, and viewed a video about the group's mission. The Conservation Foundation,
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  a donor-supported 501-3 charitable organization, focuses on conservation efforts in
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  DuPage, Cain, Kendall, and Will counties. The Sunset Supper kicked off its
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  year end fundraising campaign to raise six hundred thousand dollars for The
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  Conservation and restoration of local nature, and for programming designed to connect
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  people of all ages to the outdoors. Sponsors of the event included
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  Ball Horticultural, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Limited, Itasca Bank and Trust Company,
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  Now Natural Foods, Limestone Production Group, Club Pilates, The Growing Place, White
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  and Company, Dan and Julie Long, Bartlett Tree Experts, Green State Credit
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  Union, the Pizzo Group, What W.E. Make and Dukes, according to the
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  release. Founded in nineteen seventy two, the Conservation Foundation is one of
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  the region's oldest and largest not for profit land and watershed conservation
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  organizations, with more than six thousand members according to the release. The
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  group said it has helped preserve more than thirty six thousand acres
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  of open space, restored and cleaned miles of rivers and streams, and
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  engaged thousands of children in nature. This article was reformatted from a
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  news release using artificial intelligence. A Shaw local editor verified the information,
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  edited the article, and approved it before publication.