Media Advisory 9.1
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tanya Gabettie: 508.487.3622 ext. 104
tgabettie@coastalstudies.org

PCCS Sponsors Annual Homeport Banquet Nov. 9
Proceeds benefit Fellowship for Women in Science

(Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA) - The Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies (PCCS) will host its second annual Homeport Banquet on Thursday, November 9 at Napi's Restaurant in Provincetown.

Proceeds will benefit the Ruth Hiebert Memorial Fellowship, a scholarship awarded to women pursuing studies in marine science. The Fellowship was established in honor of the late Ruth Hiebert, a longtime supporter of the Center and local philanthropist. Tickets are $50 per person. The event - which begins at 6 p.m. - will include a silent auction.

The Homeport Banquet brings the Outer Cape community together to celebrate scholarship, science, and philanthropy. The idea for the annual banquet was borne of the Center's ever-popular "trash fish" dinners of yesteryear to popularize fish species formerly thought of as bycatch, including monkfish and hake. Beginning last year, PCCS rekindled this annual, informal and community-based event, to which all are welcome. Non-members of PCCS will receive a special discounted membership at the dinner.

For more information about the Homeport Banquet to benefit the Hiebert scholarship fund, please call PCCS at 508.487.3622 ext. 104.

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The Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies was founded in 1976 and is dedicated to the research, protection and conservation of marine mammals and marine ecosystems in the Gulf of Maine, through applied research, environmental and educational programs.

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Tanya Gabettie
Communications & Events Coordinator
508.487.3622 x 104 (office)
508.237.1920 (mobile)
tgabettie@coastalstudies.org