Above: Left -Elizabeth (Betty) Meyer, front center, with fellow SOLF Trustees. Meyer was recently honored for works including protecting the beauty of Chestnut Hill Farm, pictured right. (Trustees photo from SOLF website; farm photo by Susan Fitzgerald.
This fall, Southborough Open Land Foundation awarded its 2014 Elaine Beals Conservation Award to Elizabeth (Betty) Meyer.
Meyer was chosen due for her active involvement within the community and her dedication to environment issues over the past 46 years.
She has been very active within the community serving on the SOLF board, Southborough Opportunity Partnership Committee (SHOPC), Friends of the Southborough library, and as a volunteer at the New England Wildfire Society.
Meyer showed dedication to environmental issues, “in 2005, [when] she tirelessly helped with the education efforts in town as to why we should buy the Conservation Restriction on Chestnut Hill Farm, a campaign that succeeded at the January 2006 Special Town Meeting that voted overwhelmingly to purchase the Conservation Restriction in order to protect the beautiful Chestnut Hill Farm property from development,” said SOLF.
In her well earned retirement, Meyer and her husband plan to travel and spend time in their other home in Stowe, VT.
A ceremony at the home of Attila Herczeg and his wife Susanne Healy took place on Oct. 18 to present Meyer with the award. Numerous volunteers who took part in the six month long herpetological study conducted at Beals Preserve were also recognized for their efforts.
The aannual award is named after Southborough resident, Elaine Beals, a SOLF member and former trustee. It is given to a person or group who helps preserve and protect Southborough’s open lands and rural character.
