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	For Immediate Release Contact: Randy Simons \| Dan Keefe (518) 486-1868 \| news@parks.ny.gov July 18, 2016
MEDIA ADVISORY: Humphrey Nature Center at Letchworth State Park Celebration
Who: Rose Harvey / State Parks Commissioner Peter G. Humphrey / Chair of the Genesee Regional State Park Commission Lucy Rockefeller Waletzky, M.D. / Chair of the State Council of Parks Denise Battles / SUNY Geneseo President Local and State Officials What: Humphrey Nature Center at Letchworth State Park Opening Celebration Exhibit interpretation to follow the opening ceremony When: 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, July 19 (Public Invited) Where: Letchworth State Park, one mile south of Castile entrance 1 Letchworth State Park Castile, NY 14427 On Tuesday, July 19, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation will host an official opening ceremony with more than 100 close friends to celebrate the opening of the new Humphrey Nature Center at Letchworth State Park. The facility, supported with funds from Governor Cuomo’s NY Parks 2020 plan, will serve as a much needed educational, recreation and tourism destination for the more than 850,000 annual visitors to Letchworth State Park. Renowned as the “Grand Canyon of the East,” Letchworth was recently awarded the USA Today Reader’s Choice Award for Best State Park in the United States.

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