Conservation Dinner Committee names Mike Brintnell as Feature Artist for 35th Conservation Dinner in 2025
Sign artist Mike Brintnell, of Mike’s Signs in Exeter, is creating a tribute to past and present businesses with sign art as auction Feature Art for 35th Conservation Dinner on April 3, 2025
The Conservation Dinner Committee has selected Mike Brintnell, of Mike’s Signs in Exeter, as the Feature Artist for the 35th Conservation Dinner and Auction on Thursday, April 3, 2025.
Mike Brintnell is a renowned sign-making craftsman and a life-long resident of Exeter.
“I’m very proud to be the feature artist this year,” he said. He is working on a feature piece of sign art that will incorporate photos of historic Exeter businesses from the past as well as photos of current businesses in the town.
Chris Keller, of Exeter Lions Club, is Conservation Dinner Committee Chair.
“On behalf of the 2025 Conservation Dinner Committee, I am honoured to announce Mike Brintnell, of Mike’s Signs, is the featured artist for the 35th Conservation Dinner,” he said. “Mike’s work is truly an art form and he is renowned for the quality and excellence of the signs he envisions and crafts,” the Chair said. “We are excited that Mike’s tribute to local businesses, past and present, will be the feature art for this year’s auction.”
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Colourful Mystery Quilt one of many unique items donated to 35th Conservation Dinner
Former Conservation Dinner Committee Chair Janet Clarke incorporates fascinating donated fabric of unknown origin into quilt donated to auction on April 3, 2025
One of the highlights for guests of the Conservation Dinner is seeing and bidding on beautiful, one-of-a-kind items that are donated to this popular charitable community event.
Janet Clarke is a former Conservation Dinner Committee Chair, community volunteer, and member of the Board of Directors of Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation (ABCF). She is also a donor to the auction.
This year, Janet is donating a colourful and eye-catching piece she calls the Mystery Quilt. The quilt is a mystery, she said, because it incorporates some donated fabric that arrived at her home as a mysterious donation with an unknown history.
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World Wetlands Day is February 2, 2025
Ausable Bayfield Conservation, ‘your local wetland expert,’ has links to funds and encourages residents to consider local wetland restoration; Wetlands provide water, soil and habitat benefits for our common future
World Wetlands Day takes place on Sunday, February 2, 2025. The theme for this year is ‘Protecting wetlands for our common future’ with a message to ‘value, protect and inspire.’
Angela Van Niekerk is the Wetlands Specialist with Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority (ABCA). She said it is amazing how fast the local dragonflies, turtles, frogs and birds move into the constructed wetlands, once the habitat is provided. She has also observed water being held on the land during storm events to the benefit of water quality and erosion control.
Since 2008, Ausable Bayfield Conservation has helped more than one hundred local landowners create more than 150 wetlands over 950 acres.
Last autumn, local landowner Phil McNamee, and ABCA, restored a wetland at Serenity Nature Reserve on Corbett Line next to the ABCA Mahon Tract. This wetland was created in a 1.5-acre field.
This wetland will provide benefits of water storage during flooding events and reduce sediment to the municipal drain, Parkhill Creek, and Lake Huron at Grand Bend. This area will be a lively emergent marsh providing habitat for many birds and other animals.
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