Congressman Norm Dicks and John Fabian, the founder of the Hood Canal Coalition, are two recipients of the 2010 Warren G. Magnuson Puget Sound Legacy Awards.
People For Puget Sound announced Wednesday that Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge manager Jean Takekawa also would receive an award at the fifth annual New Day for Puget Sound breakfast at 7:30 a.m. May 18 at the W Seattle Hotel.
The program will also feature a keynote address by author and conservation advocate Carl Safina.
The breakfast is free, but those who attend will be asked to donate to support People For Puget Sound’s education, advocacy and restoration programs.
Dicks, D-Belfair, who represents the 6th Congressional District — which includes the North Olympic Peninsula — is recognized “for being a lifelong friend of Puget Sound and for advocating and building federal support for Puget Sound protection and recovery,” the group said in a prepared statement.
The Hood Canal Coalition has opposed since 2002 a proposed Fred Hill Materials pit-to-pier project, in which the company would build a four-mile-long conveyor belt from its Shine gravel pit to a 1,000-foot dock to move gravel to barges in Hood Canal.
It also opposes a plan to expand gravel extraction at the company’s Shine site.
“John Fabian and the Hood Canal Coalition are recognized for their persistent and courageous efforts to protect the shoreline and critical habitats of Hood Canal from the development of gravel export dock near Shine, in Jefferson County,” People For Puget Sound said.
Takekawa “is recognized for her decade-long leadership in brings to fruition the restoration of over 760 acres of Nisqually Delta, a major step forward toward recovering Puget Sound,” the group said.
The Puget Sound Legacy Award honors the late U.S. senator from Washington, Warren G. Magnuson, who died in 1989, for pursuing legislation that protected marine mammals and prohibited supertankers from entering Puget Sound.
Table reservations for the breakfast can be made online at http://tinyurl.com/2e3wphj.
