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(emailed March 7, 2025) We hope that 2025 has been treating you well so far! We have a few items that we would like to share pertaining to CBC’s efforts to preserve open space land on the Chelan Butte for public use. The first might seem like bad news, but it...
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(emailed January 9, 2025) Happy New Year! We hope that 2025 brings good things for you and yours. We have two things to share. First, as we indicated we would do in our Update #14 email, CBC has moved forward to complete our own version of the Chelan Butte Acquisition...
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(emailed on August 28, 2024) Hello supporters of the Chelan Butte, In some ways a lot has happened since our last update, but in others not so much. As shown in the photo above, on August 20th parts of the Chelan Butte burned in a rapidly-moving wildfire, which was...
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(emailed on May 12, 2024) Hello supporters of the Chelan Butte, Since our last communication, the law firm hired by the Trust for Public Land (TPL) completed both of the public meetings for the Chelan Butte Acquisition Feasibility Study (April 4th and May 9th). The...
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(emailed on February 29, 2024) Hello supporters of the Chelan Butte, Here is the latest news on our efforts to preserve the Chelan Butte. Although not much new has been announced publicly, a lot continues to happen in the background as Mr. Venugopal continues to work...
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(emailed on November 17, 2023) Hello supporters of the Chelan Butte, This update message is a significant milestone in our community-wide effort to preserve the Chelan Butte, even though we don’t know how this will ultimately play out. In this email we will...
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(emailed on October 11, 2023) Hello supporters of the Chelan Butte, A lot has happened in the five weeks or so since our last update, much of it related to the use of boundary line adjustments (BLAs) and exempt subdivisions as governed by the Chelan Municipal Code...
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(emailed on August 31, 2023) Hello supporters of the Chelan Butte, We have a number of updates to provide at this time. First, thanks to your generous support, we have retained the land use law firm Bricklin & Newman to assist with any legal questions or issues...
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(emailed on June 16, 2023) Hello supporters of the Chelan Butte, The Chelan Basin Conservancy continues its efforts to preserve the Chelan Butte with your generous support. I’d like to start off by thanking everyone who responded to our request in the previous Chelan...
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(emailed on May 1, 2023) Hello supporters of the Chelan Butte, The Chelan Basin Conservancy continues our efforts to preserve the Chelan Butte on many fronts and we have several updates that we would like to pass along. We are at a critical stage in this effort, so I...
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Hello CBC Supporters, Hopefully everyone receiving this email has signed the online petition at our website to preserve the Chelan Butte and receives our periodic emails providing updates on that project. Clearly, the effort to preserve the Chelan Butte takes up the...
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(emailed on February 20, 2023) Hello supporters of the Chelan Butte, We have a few items related to the effort to preserve Chelan Butte that we would like to pass along. First, the Trust for Public Land just completed their official submittal of the Chelan Butte...
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(emailed on January 13, 2023) Hello supporters of the Chelan Butte, We would like to provide an update on a few items. As you know, our efforts to preserve the Chelan Butte have been very busy. All of us on the CBC board would like to thank everyone who responded to...
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Hello CBC supporters, Just a quick, but important, year-end note before we head into 2023 (if you skim this email, please read the yellow-highlighted text below). I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season! Chelan Butte As you know, our efforts to preserve the...
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(emailed on December 28, 2022) Hello supporters of the Chelan Butte, In case you don’t read all the way through this email, I wanted to start by noting that the issue of the Chelan Butte is on the agenda for the Tuesday January 3rd Chelan city council workshop (4PM at...
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(emailed November 30, 2022) Hello supporters of the Chelan Butte, First off, I want to thank everyone who responded to our October 3rd request to email the Chelan mayor and city council about the allocation of $500,000 in the City budget toward the purchase of the...
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Greetings CBC Members, You are invited to join us at Chelan Basin Conservancy’s 2022 annual meeting of the membership. The meeting will take place on Thursday November 10th beginning at 6PM at the Chelan Fire Station meeting room (232 E Wapato Ave in Chelan, 2nd...
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(emailed on August 30, 2022) Hello supporters of the Chelan Butte, I just wanted to provide a quick update of where we’re at in the process of trying to preserve the Chelan Butte. The Chelan Basin Conservancy (CBC) has completed nearly a dozen meetings with key...
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(emailed on July 17, 2022) First, we would like to thank you for signing our petition! We now have nearly 1,800 signers. Being able to demonstrate to potential partners that this effort is something the public sees as a high priority has been extremely helpful....
