Jamestown, N.Y. — Many visitors, including newcomers, are practicing safe social distancing while enjoying Audubon Community Nature Center’s (ACNC) 600-acre wetland preserve with its more than five miles of beautifully maintained trails, native tree arboretum, picnic areas, natural play space, educational gardens, and Liberty, a non-releasable Bald Eagle. 

To help provide funding for those who continue to keep Audubon’s grounds open, ACNC is taking orders for special t-shirts and hoodies. 

The design, illustrated by staff member Kim Turner, comes in a variety of adult and youth sizes. 

One hundred percent of the proceeds support Audubon Community Nature Center’s staff, building, and grounds so that they can continue to provide the community with a safe place to get outside and enjoy the benefits of nature.

Your purchase also supports local business. T-shirts and hoodies purchased through Audubon’s sale will be printed by JRSC Digital, a Jamestown business since 1956. 

Prices are $15/Youth tees, $20/Adult and Ladies’ T-shirts, $30/Hooded Sweatshirts, with $5 more for sizes XXL and XXXL. 

All orders must be placed online by Monday, June 15. The shirts will be available for pick up at the Nature Center after the sale has ended, or they can be shipped for an additional fee.

For all the details and to place your order, go to AudubonCNC.org/Programs, click on Current Schedule, then Online T-shirt and Sweatshirt Fundraiser. For assistance with ordering, call the Nature Center at (716) 569-2345 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Monday-Friday.

Designer Kimberly Turner is an artist living and working in Warren, Pa. She studied Photography and Illustration at SUNY Fredonia and earned her MFA with a concentration in Photography at Indiana University Bloomington. Her day job at ACNC offers endless inspiration for her personal artwork that uses a range of media from photography to watercolor and is strongly influenced by the natural world. More about her work can be found at KimberlyTurnerArt.com

For more great shopping, through May 30 Audubon’s Blue Heron Gift Shop has 15% off all items (except birdseed, gift cards, suet, and the shirt fundraiser) and 25% off for all ACNC members. 

Check out the variety of items for yourself and the kids — toys, games, stickers, books, more — at AudubonCNC.org/Shop. Call to arrange the details of your purchases and payment. Then, at your scheduled pick-up time, drive to the front of the nature center building where your purchase will be brought out to you.

Audubon Community Nature Center is located at 1600 Riverside Road, just east of Route 62 between Warren, Pa., and Jamestown, N.Y. Although the Nature Center building is closed until further notice due to COVID-19 per New York State restrictions, visitors are welcome to enjoy the outdoor opportunities from dawn to dusk daily while practicing safe social distancing measures. 

To learn more about Audubon and its many programs, call (716) 569-2345, visit AudubonCNC.org, or find Audubon Community Nature Center on Facebook.

Audubon Community Nature Center builds and nurtures connections between people and nature by providing positive outdoor experiences, opportunities to learn about and understand the natural world, and knowledge to act in environmentally responsible ways.

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