Media Advisory

Over the past 40 years, the Chesapeake Bay Program has guided the restoration and conservation of the nation’s largest estuary. The most recent Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement signed in 2014, contains 10 goals and 31 outcomes intended to further restoration of the Bay and its surrounding watershed. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) has supported the Chesapeake Bay Program since 1999 in managing its Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund.

Please join the Chesapeake Bay Program and NFWF in celebrating the partnership’s 40^th anniversary! The following organizations will be leading tours to show how their restoration projections are helping to improve their local waterways while contributing to the Watershed Agreement outcomes.

Who:

• Maryland Senator Sarah Elfreth (Greater Grace World Outreach, Tench Tillman Elementary and Middle School)
• Deputy Director Martha Shimkin, Chesapeake Bay Program Office, Environmental Protection Agency’s (all stops)
• Baltimore Councilmember James Torrence (Union Collective)
• Mayor Brandon Scott (invited)
• Baltimore Councilmember Danielle McCray (invited)
• Baltimore Councilmember Antonio Glover (invited)
• Baltimore Councilmember Mark Conway (invited)
• Secretary Serena McIlwain, Maryland Department of the Environment (invited)
• Secretary Josh Kurtz, Maryland Department of Natural Resources (invited)

When:

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

9:30 a.m.—2:15 p.m.

Where:

• Greater Grace World Outreach (9:30—10:30 a.m.), 6025 Moravia Park Drive, Baltimore, Md. 21206

• Tench Tilghman Elementary and Middle School (11:00—11:45 a.m.), 600 N. Patterson Park Avenue, Baltimore, Md. 21205

• Bliss Meadows (12:15 p.m.—1:00 p.m.), 5105 Plainfield Avenue, Baltimore, Md. 21206

• Union Collective (1:30—2:15 p.m.), 1700 W 41^st Street, Suite #420, Baltimore, Md. 21211