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The National Marine Life Center (NMLC) in Buzzards Bay, MA is a private, non-profit marine animal hospital and science education center, dedicated to rehabilitating and releasing stranded whales, dolphins, seals, and sea turtles, and to advancing scientific knowledge and education in marine wildlife health and conservation. Serving an expansive coastal region noted for significant numbers of marine animal strandings, NMLC currently operates a clinic to rehabilitate for release threatened and endangered sea turtles and stranded seals, and we have plans to build a full-service marine animal hospital capable of treating more patients of more species.
Working with stranded animals not only benefits the individual animal, but also creates opportunities to learn about marine animal populations, wildlife health, and the condition of our ocean and shoreline habitats. In learning more about wildlife and ocean health, researchers often discover human health implications. Through NMLC programs that teach about marine animal strandings, both children and adults learn about the need for environmental stewardship.
To achieve success in its mission of rehabilitation, science, and education, NMLC needs public support. They welcome volunteers as well as in-kind and cash donations.
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Building Lives
by Allen Larson
 This past weekend, I attended two events that honored a high school Athletic Director and coach not only for his lifetime of accomplishment but for his constructive commitment to his community. While the context of the discussions was sports related and the indicators of his success were measured in the number of his "wins" and "losses," the events highlighted that the true, substantive measure of the man was his network of family and friends. The capital he accumulated was his reputation.
In conversations, people shared stories of small gestures and stated expectations. Some of us he had coached, others he had taught, a few he had hired, and many, many more he had helped with words of suggestion, direction, and support.
He had lived in the community for most of his life, and he had raised an extended family of three daughters, eight grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and their husbands and wives. He lived across from the school and looked out upon all of its playing fields and track. He could see who put in the time on nights and weekends and through the summers to prepare themselves for the various sports seasons. He encouraged that commitment.
As with any region over time, economic conditions changed. Companies thrived and failed. Demographics changed. He approached these changes by pitching in... MORE
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Cape Wind
by Editor
Every couple of decades on the Cape, almost like a cycle of nature, the humans that live here work themselves to a frenzy about an issue. In the 60's, the formation of the National Seashore was virtually akin to a civil war. And in the '80's, the Paul Tsongas call for a building "moratorium" flamed the debate that lead to the formation of the Cape Cod Commission.
So, here we are, twenty years later, and the proposal to construct a wind farm on what many view to be a pristine ocean sanctuary brings out some unusual behavior. Local author Wendy Williams has captured many of the tales in a book to be issued this May creatively titled "Cape Wind".
The Cape Cod Center for Sustainability has invited Wendy to read excerpts of her book and to talk about her experiences writing about it. She has real insight about the weaknesses and the outright failings of what is supposed in theory to be an objective regulatory review process.
We're in the midst of planning the event and trying to get a handle on the number of people who might attend. If you are interested to find out more about the time and place, please contact us by email and we'll give you more details.
And as we write this, we have no idea what the issue is going to be in twenty years." MORE
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Supporting A Community
by Seth Rolbein
Editor and Publisher - The Cape Cod Voice
Of the many ways Cape Cod is unique, our non-profit community's vitality and diversity must rank right up there with our beautiful beaches and the National Seashore.
At The Cape Cod Voice (The Voice), we've tried to support that community and connect with it in a bunch of ways over six years of publishing. Now, with help from the Cape Cod Center for Sustainability (SCC), we've expanded that outreach in an intriguing way, both in print and on our website at www.capecodvoice.com.
In every issue of The Voice,we feature one non-profit organization from the many who give so much to the Cape. MORE
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