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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>March 1<sup>st</sup>, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Office of the Mayor and Council <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Kitchener</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">City Hall</st1:PlaceType></span></font></st1:place><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>200 King St. W.</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Kitchener</span></font></st1:City><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">ON</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">N2G 4G7</st1:PostalCode></span></font></st1:place><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Greetings to each of you.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Please see the attached letter dated March 1<sup>st</sup>,
2012.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I look forward to acknowledgement and responses to this
matter.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Respectfully submitted,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Neil E. Taylor<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>C.c.: Interested parties<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><strong><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Please check my Birdathon
porgress at:</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><a
href="http://www.gifttool.com/athon/MyFundraisingPage?ID=1914&AID=1845&PID=256458">http://www.gifttool.com/athon/MyFundraisingPage?ID=1914&AID=1845&PID=256458</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'>“If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird
will come." - Chinese Proverb</span></font></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'>You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it
in the bush" - John Burroughs (1908) essay: Art of Seeing Things<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><strong><b><font size=2
color="#003300" face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:#003300'>For Nature! For now! Forever!</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'><a href="mailto:neiletaylor@sympatico.ca">neiletaylor@sympatico.ca</a></span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/costa_rica_birds2012/"><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.flickr.com/photos/costa_rica_birds2012/</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'>Neil E. Taylor<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:
bold'><ns1:Street w:insAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:insDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:endInsDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"><ns1:address
w:insAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:insDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:endInsDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"><st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font color="#003300"><span
style='color:#003300'>1016 Wilson Ave.</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street></ns1:address></ns1:Street><font
color="#003300"><span style='color:#003300'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:
bold'><ns1:place w:insAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:insDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:endInsDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"><ns1:City
w:insAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:insDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:endInsDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font color="#003300"><span style='color:#003300'>Kitchener</span></font></st1:City></ns1:City></st1:place><font
color="#003300"><span style='color:#003300'> </span></font><ns1:State
w:insAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:insDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:endInsDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"><st1:State
w:st="on"><font color="#003300"><span style='color:#003300'>ON</span></font></st1:State></ns1:State></ns1:place><font
color="#003300"><span style='color:#003300'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'>N2C 1J2<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'>Tel. 519-893-6469<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:9.0pt'><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.65pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'>"In the end, we conserve only what we love, we will love
only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught."
-- Baba Dioum<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.65pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'>“I have a room all to myself; it is Nature. It is a
place beyond the jurisdiction of human government.” - (Author unknown)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.65pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'>“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is
patience.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.65pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'>“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source
of my inspiration.” - Claude Monet</span></font></b><font color="#003300"><span
lang=EN-US style='color:#003300'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.65pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.65pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'>Life Member – Bird Studies </span></font></b><b><font
size=2><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'><ns1:country-region
w:insAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:insDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:endInsDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"><ns1:place
w:insAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:insDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:endInsDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"><font
color="#003300"><span style='color:#003300'>Canada</span></font></ns1:place></ns1:country-region><font
color="#003300"><span style='color:#003300'> (BSC)</span></font></span></font></b><b><font
color="#003300"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#003300;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.65pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'>Life Member – </span></font></b><b><font size=2><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'><ns1:State
w:insAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:insDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:endInsDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"><ns1:place
w:insAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:insDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Neil Taylor" w:endInsDate="2012-03-01T09:36:00Z"><font
color="#003300"><span style='color:#003300'>Ontario</span></font></ns1:place></ns1:State><font
color="#003300"><span style='color:#003300'> Nature (ON)</span></font></span></font></b><b><font
color="#003300"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#003300;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.65pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'>Life Member – Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.65pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'>Honorary Life Member – (2008) Kitchener-Waterloo Field
Naturalists (KWFN)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:5.65pt'><b><font size=2 color="#003300"
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#003300;
font-weight:bold'>Conservation Award – (2008) Kitchener-Waterloo Field
Naturalists (KWFN)</span></font></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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