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Thanks
to our Generous Supporters
Speaker of the House
Robert A. DeLeo
State Representative
Serving Winthrop and
Beachmont
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Thanks to Marc Wallerce
and everyone at the
Winthrop
Marketplace
35 Revere Street
Winthrop, MA 02152
(617) 846-6880
Fax (617) 846-6003
Email
info@winthropmktplace.com
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East
Boston Savings Bank
FBIM thanks you for your
annual support
of our Harvest Festival
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Mayor Thomas Menino
City of Boston
Thanks for your support
for our
2009 Cleanup on April 25th at
Saratoga Street
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State Representative
Carlo Basile
East Boston
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Century 21 Mario Real
Estate
Thanks for your support
of the
Endangered Species Fund
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Thanks to our long-time
member
and supporter
John Ribeiro,
Owner of
Jonquille Diner
on Furlong Drive in
Revere
near
Suffolk Downs
Thanks for your generous support!
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ACE
Hardware
65 Main Street, Winthrop, MA 02152
Thanks
to Paul Leavy
and all the Helpful
Hardware people
for their generous
contributions to our
Annual Spring Cleanup
and the Harvest Festival
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Save
the Harbor -
Save the Bay
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Kathi-Anne
Reinstein
State
Representative
Revere
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Belle Isle Marsh Reservation is located in
East Boston, Revere and
Winthrop, Massachusetts.
This
350 acre reservation, administered by the
Department of Conservation and Recreation, was acquired from the
Massachusetts Port Authority in the late 1970s and was opened as a public park in 1985. The
largest surviving salt marsh in Boston Harbor, it showcases plants
and wildlife now rare to the Metropolitan area. During the 1600s
the marshlands were used for sheep and cattle pasture with the salt
marsh harvested for salt hay. By mid 20th century a few homes,
business/light industrial structures and a fuel tank farm were built on
filled-in marshland as was the Belle Isle trotter track, now Suffolk
Downs, and subsequently the Suffolk Downs Drive-In theater. In 1986 the MDC reclaimed a major section of Belle Isle Marsh as a reservation, and
began a substantial wetland reconditioning program. The
Friends of Belle Isle Marsh, a grassroots environmental organization,
was formed in the early 1980s to help preserve the marsh and publicize
its importance as an urban natural resource.
Friends of
Belle Isle Marsh is a volunteer organization dedicated to the
preservation of this marsh. We believe that protection ultimately
depends on public awareness of the value and beauty of this natural
resource. Our focus, therefore, is mainly educational.
FBIM
is a non-profit corporation. To join, send dues to: FBIM, PO
Box 575, East Boston, MA 02128.
$15 (Family), $10
(Individual) and $5 Seniors/Under 16)
Contributions are tax-deductible.
Thank you for your
continued support.
Monthly
meetings are held the fourth Wednesday at Eliot House in Revere which is
the large house located at the rotary at the southern end of
Revere Beach. Please call to confirm date and time of meeting.
Friends of
Belle Isle Marsh is a volunteer organization dedicated to the
preservation of this marsh. We believe that protection ultimately
depends on public awareness of the value and beauty of this natural
resource. Our focus, therefore, is mainly educational.

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Salt
Marsh Herons
by
Joe Pike
great
blue and great white
stalking
gracefully in golden light
who
tells you the green crab
comes
in on the tide
and
silver fish flash
when
they pass by?
great
blue & great white
stalking
silently in fading light
who
teaches you to coil and to strike
with
your spear of a beak
and
to find your way home
in
the dark to Chelsea Creek?
Joe
Pike
Winthrop,
MA
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The Marsh
by Meg Dolan
Many
marshes big and small
Have one
special thing in all
They
remind us we should never litter
Or grassy
landscapes will get bitter.
The one I
know is Belle Isle Marsh
And all
the litter is just too harsh.
If you see it, you
could say
This is
beautiful in a way.
But
sorrow, sorrow, truth be told,
The
marsh's pollution is too mush to hold.
Something
else I have to say,
Is Belle
Isle Marsh should be here to stay.
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