Vallet Memorial Dinner to honor environmental contributions

Montgomery — The second annual Rudy Vallet Memorial Dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27, at the Spruce Lodge in Coldenham, located on Route 17K between Newburgh and Montgomery. Held by the Stewart Park and Reserve Coalition, the dinner is named in honor of a community activist, the late Rudy Vallet of Goshen. For many years Vallet taught science at the old Chester Junior/Senior High School. David Stilwell, chief of the Endangered Species Unit of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, will talk about the Indiana bats found at the Stewart buffer lands. The coalition will be giving environmental awards to Wayne Hall, a longtime environmental writer with The Times Herald-Record; John Stouffer, legislative chair of the Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club; Tom Jefferson, past-president of the Orange County Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs; and Dr. Eric Singman, a Ben Kissam Scholarship Award donor since 1993. The dinner’s cost is $45. The cash bar starts at 6:30 p.m. Call 564-3018.