About the Martinsville-Henry County Community Nature Initiative

With the support of The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont, Virginia Museum of Natural History and its partners, Dr. Denny Casey and Tamara Poles developed a new nature and outdoor initiative entitled the Martinsville Henry County Community Nature Initiative (MHC CNI). The CNI will serve as a clearinghouse for environmental information, use nature as a way to stimulate learning, develop opportunities for quality family time in the outdoors, and position VMNH as a leader in environmental education. CNI will serve as a means to provide hands-on, real-world opportunities for children, educators, and families to increase appreciation for nature and as an effective means to better understand and address community environmental issues.

Click the above CNI logo for official website and to access your Earth Week Passport!

Earth Week 2010 Highlights

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Earth Week Celebration!!

It's here! The Earth Week Celebration is here!! Earth Week officially starts tomorrow April 15!!!! Please visit www.mhccni.org or www.vmnh.net for more information regarding this celebration! Earth Week is a series of programs, events, and festivals conducted annually by MHC CNI the Saturday before Earth Day through the Saturday after Earth Day. The purpose is to celebrate Earth Day and learn about the wonderful programs and actions that are taking place in the community, even learn ways that you can go green in your life. This year we will be conducting Earth Week a day earlier and will include Earth Day at VMNH (a conference style event for students), Screen on the Green, Earth Day 5K, guided hikes, an environmental expo, star gazing, geocaching, among other exciting activities!! We will be closing this event with the Earth Day Festival at the Smith River Sports Complex!!!
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Friday, April 8, 2011

Piedmont Kite Festival




The Piedmont Kite Festival was a success!Thank you to all my volunteers that worked very hard during this event to make it so wonderful! We had over 760 people participate in the event! Thanks to our awesome volunteers, participants were able to enjoy a great time doing the following activities; listening to live music, getting their faces painted, building kites, painting kites, blowing bubbles, building helicopters, playing disc golf, testing their bird sports trivia, learning about bird migration, and pushing themselves to the limit in the Bird Olympics game and Food for the Brood game. Representatives from HC Patriots RC club, Civil Air Patrol, Girls Scouts, USACE, SEMAA, Martinsville Parks and Recreation, and chick-fil-A did a great job with their activities during the festival! Pictures to come soon! If you want to read more about it check out this link to the Martinsville Bulletin!

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Friday, March 4, 2011

Piedmont Kite Festival

Happy Friday Everyone!

Just a reminder that March 12, 2011 we will be hosting the Piedmont Kite Festiaval at Jack Dalton Park from 10:00am to 3:00pm!
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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Volunteer Requests!

If you would like to volunteer for MHC CNI please contact me at tamara.poles@vmnh.virginia.gov. We currently need volunteers for the Piedmont Kite Festival taking place March 12, 2011, you can stay all day or take part in one of the two shifts. Shifts are 9:00am to noon and 11:45am to 3:30pm. Volunteers that stay all day will be eligible for free food!

We will also need volunteers for our large Earth Week Celebration that will take place April 23 at the Smith River Sports Complex. This event will be from 10:00am to 4:00pm however volunteers will have to be there no later than 9:00am. More information to come on about this event.
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Curriculum Development

As I type MHC CNI is facilitating a curriculum development session with fantastic teachers from Martinsville and Henry County public schools! We would like to thank them for all their hard work! You guys are doing amazing and i can see why you are such an asset for the Martinsville and Henry County Public School Systems!!
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Piedmont Kite Festival 2011

This year's Piedmont Kite Festival will be taking place March 12, 2011 from 10:00am to 3:00pm at Jack Dalton Park! Bring your own kites! See amazing demonstrations that would not be possible without wind! Listen to live music from Kim and Jimbo Cary, learn about the wonders of wind, play flying games, make a kite, and be able to get your facepainted! Food and drinks will be available for purchase. Exhibitors will include Henry County Parks and Recreation, Martinsville Parks and Recreation, Henry County Patriots, SEMAA, USACE Philpott, and the Martinsville Composit Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol.
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Busy times for MHC CNI

MHC CNI has been working diligently on our third year's programs and projects. We have a lot in store for you this year and we hope you will enjoy! We are currently creating a curriculum, the Piedmont Kite Festival, Nature Guides, publishing papers, Earth Week, Earth Week Festival, Sharing Nature and Natural History workshop called VINYL, and summer camps! We will keep you posted!
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