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Special Places Celebration

September 10, 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

$125

25th Annual Special Places Celebration!

Plans are underway for the 25th Annual Special Places Celebration on Thursday, September 10 at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences in Charleston, WV, featuring a delicious delicious bites prepared by Chef Paul Smith of 1010 Bridge Restaurant and Catering.
 
Did you know? In 2024, Chef Paul Smith was the first West Virginia chef to receive the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef of The Southeast Award! 

We hope you will join us as we celebrate the land we love and honor those who protect it!

Special Thanks to our 2025 Sponsors!

Black Bear $10,000

Cardinal $5,000

Brook Trout $2,500

Broun Properties

Pam Gardner in memory of David H. Gardner

Charles Loeb and Sandy Murphy

Britt and Judy McJunkin

Payne-Gallatin Co.

Nina Peyton

Rattlesnake $1,500

Bob and Andi Allen

Andy and Hope Altman

Kanawha Roxalana

Jennifer Taylor and Stephen Haid

Jay and Simone Thomas

Monarch $1,000

Bob and Andi Allen

Calvert and Ted Armbrecht

Tacy and Chap Donovan

Terrell Ellis

Jonathan and Adriana Marshall

PrayWorks

Honeybee $500

Allegheny Image Factory

Frank and Camilla Baer

Brent Bailey and Liz Cohen

Ann Bailey Berry and Emma Berry

Stan and Carolyn Cavendish

Ernst Young, LLP

Dan and Kathy Foster

Goldman Associates, Inc.

Graystone Consulting

Jackie Hallinan and Robert Wilson

Larry Harris and Cindy O’Brien

Hill Hall Hotel LLC

J.Q. Dickinson Salt Works

Tom and Shannon Lane

Callen McJunkin

Joy Oakes and Thomas Cassidy

River House in Gassaway, WV

Craig and Carla Slaughter

West Virginia Rivers Coalition

Ziegler & Ziegler L.C. Attorneys at Law

Rhododendron $250

Dave and Darlene Clark

Susan Graves

Bill and Sue Hevener

Elizabeth “Ditsy” Keightley

National Parks Conservation Association

Bren Pomponio and Margaret Chapman Pomponio

John and Jean Schmidt

The Webb Law Centre, PLLC

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