Save the Date for TLC’s 33rd Annual Celebration!
TLC’s 33rd Annual Celebration
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
The program will be about living in harmony with the beavers in our area in celebration of International Beaver Day April 7!
Our guest speaker is Leila Philip, author of Beaverland. She is the author of award-winning books of nonfiction that chronicle diverse, personal journeys.
Leila Philip is an award-winning author whose most recent book, Beaverland, is a New York Times Editor’s Choice and NPR Science Friday Book Club selection which The Wall Street Journal called “as full of charm and wonder as its beguiling protagonist.”
A Guggenheim Fellow, Philip has also been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the
Humanities. She was a popular contributing columnist at the Boston Globe and teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at the College of the Holy Cross where she is a professor in the English Department and holds the Brooks Chair in the Humanities.
Want a copy before the event? Shop local and contact Read Between the Lynes bookstore in Woodstock.
You will also enjoy an afternoon high tea, visit with friends old and new, and celebrate the people, places and achievements that make TLC the vital organization it is.
Date: Sunday, April 7, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Location: Smith’s Central Events, 3315 Pearl St. McHenry (new location for 2024!)
Tickets
$65 TLC member, $75 nonmember
Only 165 tickets will be sold, so reserve your seat early!
TLC’s Annual Celebration Silent Auction is Open!
Bid on great items like gift baskets, experiences, artwork, gifts for kids and more (even a Mid-Century set of Baccarat crystal!)
View the auction items here!
Sponsor Opportunities
Table for 10 with Wine
$800 – Includes premium table location and tickets for 10 guests, two bottles of wine (one red, one white), recognition at the event, in the event program, and on the event webpage.
Bur Oak Sponsor
$1,500 – Includes premium table for 10, recognition at the event, logo on event web page and silent auction platform, “Sponsor Spotlight” post on Facebook, and a full page ad in the event program.
Hickory Sponsor
$1,000 – Includes premium table for 10, recognition at the event, name on event web page and silent auction platform, full page ad in the event program.
Hackberry Sponsor
$500 – Includes two tickets to the event, recognition at the event, logo on event webpage and silent auction platform, and a half page ad in the event program.
Hazelnut Sponsor
$250 – Includes two tickets to the event, recognition at the event, and name on event webpage and recognition in the event program.
View the sponsorship options here!
Celebrate International Beaver Day and enjoy an afternoon “high tea” catered by Hazel’s, which includes sandwiches, scones and breads, desserts, coffee, tea and a cash bar. You will have the opportunity to bid on exciting silent auction items, and of course take the time to connect with friends old and new. Invite a friend – this is a great opportunity to learn more about how TLC preserves land for life in McHenry County!
Would you like to be a sponsor of this fun event or donate a silent auction item? Contact Glenda, [email protected], for more information.
Raffle Prizes
Raffle tickets will be sale at the event for $5 each, or 5 for $20.
Grand Prize
The grand prize includes 2 Monarch Meadow / Pollinator Paradise Native Plant Kits courtesy of Natural Communites Native Plants, and a gift certificate for three native shrubs from TLC’s Spring Sustainability Sale.
There will also be two “second-chance” drawings, and each winner will receive 1 Monarch Meadow / Pollinator Paradise Native Plant Kit.
Thank you to our sponsors!
Table Sponsors
Alisha Mowbray at The Blue Farm
Manitou Creek Watershed Beaver Team
The Wildflower Preservation and Propagation Committee
Hazelnut Sponsors
Boelter Risk Sciences and Engineering LLC
HNA Networks
Randy Rapp and Sue McCowin
