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Karen Wins Award For Dedication

Article published on 26th July 2010

GAZENSALTS-1Karen Potter, warden and projects manager of Gazen Salts, was recently presented with a Chairman's Certificate by the chairman of Dover District Council, Bernard Butcher. The award, a framed certificate, has only been given out twice in the last four years.

Karen, 43, has been at the nature reserve in Sandwich since 1985 and is its sole full-time employee.

Cllr Butcher said she was well-deserving of the award, adding: "Without her skill and expertise as warden and projects manager, the reserve would have closed many years ago. The town and district owe her our admiration and gratitude."

Former Sandwich Secondary School pupil Karen said she still remembers the magical moment when she first clapped eyes on Gazen Salts in 1981.

She said: "I was just totally inspired by it. I really fell in love with it. It was so exciting as a man-made reserve. It just went from there. I was very interested to learn about the different sorts of wildlife and how to look after their habitats and encourage other species of wildlife to live there."

Karen, who has lived her entire life in Sandwich, joined Gazen Salts as an assistant warden in 1985, and a year later was asked by the district council to form a management committee to run it on its behalf. She has been performing that role ever since.

Karen has the help of between 20 to 50 volunteers through the year on the 15-acre site.

She said the part she loves best about her job is "getting my hands dirty".

She added: "Inevitably, with the world we live in, I get caught up with paperwork and I have to do the fundraising and put in the grant applications and general admin work, but what I really love doing is getting out there and doing the manual work and looking after the reserve and the wildlife habitats."

Karen's award came as a complete surprise to her.

She said: "I had no idea. As far as I was concerned, I was attending a quarterly directors' meeting about the reserve. I was greatly surprised at the end of the meeting when they presented me with a certificate. It was very sweet of them."

Gazen Salts is open all year round, free of charge. Call 01304 617197.

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