{"id":5244,"date":"2023-09-07T08:44:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T12:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/?page_id=5244"},"modified":"2025-10-19T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:42:37","slug":"2023-friends-annual-membership-dinner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/?page_id=5244","title":{"rendered":"2025 Friends&#8217; Annual Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/?page_id=5244\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"400\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>This year&#8217;s Friends&#8217; Annual Dinner was on<br \/>\nThursday, October 16, 2025 at 6:00 pm<br \/>\nGreywacke Meadows, 40 Dunham Road, Cropseyville, NY 12052<\/p>\n<p>Our guest speaker this year was Thomas Gregg, Western MA Common Loon Field Biologist for the Biodiversity Research Institute.<br \/>\nThomas presented Restoring the Call: Common Loon Reintroduction in the Northeast.<br \/>\nThis presentation gave a full life history of the Common Loon (Gavia Immer)<br \/>\nbefore delving into the many conservation strategies the Biodiversity Research Institute<br \/>\nhas employed to restore this species in New England and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The buffet dinner was provided by Paolo Lombardi&#8217;s at a cost of $45.00 per person<br \/>\nThe menu included: Garden Salad, Baked Ziti, Mini Meatballs, Chicken Balsamico, Sauteed Mixed Vegetables, Asparagus &#038; Mushroom Risotto, Bread and Butter, Cake, Coffee, Tea and Water.<\/p>\n<p>To attend the dinner, payment for each dinner reservation must have beeen received by Sunday October 12, 2025. Dinner is open to all, so please invite your friends, too, as Dyken Pond celebrates 52 years of environmental education, outdoor recreation and youth development.<br \/>\n<!--\nAll reservations must be made through the Add to Cart button below.  Additional dinners may be added to your cart after clicking Add to Cart.  A PayPal account is not required to pay with a card.\n\n\n<div style=\"margin-top: -3em;\">\n\n\n<form target=\"paypal\" action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"ZYL4VL74E726A\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Membership Dinner\">Membership Dinner <select name=\"os0\"> \n<option value=\"One dinner\">One dinner $45.00 USD<\/option>\n <\/select><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\">\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_cart_LG.gif\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" border=\"0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/form>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Friends&#8217; Annual Dinner was on Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 6:00 pm Greywacke Meadows, 40 Dunham Road, Cropseyville, NY 12052 Our guest speaker this year was Thomas Gregg, Western MA Common Loon Field Biologist for the Biodiversity Research &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/?page_id=5244\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6175,"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5244\/revisions\/6175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}