Update 2019-03-20: Pictures.
Come help WWALS celebrate spring with 30,000 of our south Georgia and north Florida friends, at the Azalea Festival in Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia. We will have information about our outings and advocacy (yes, including Valdosta wastewater), and pictures for sale Gretchen took of our rivers, plus a kayak raffle.
When:
10AM-6PM Saturday 9 March 2019
10AM-5PM Sunday 10 March 2019
Volunteer: WWALS members can help at the table!
Where:
Drexel Park
30.846771, -83.285066
Patterson at W. Brookwood Drive, Valdosta, GA
(across Patterson from VSU)
That’s on One Mile Branch, which flows into Sugar Creek, then the Withlacoochee River,
the Suwannee, to the Gulf.
Drexel Park is upstream of Wainwright Drive, where
WWALS did a cleanup in November 2017,
and
Valdosta spilled 218,075 gallons of raw sewage.
You can help with cleanups or water quality testing.
Photo: John S. Quarterman, of
Shirley Kokidko and Gretchen Quarterman at Azalea Festival 2018.
What: Our Story, Azalea Festival,
Approximately 30,000 attendees from all over the Southeast come to Valdosta to enjoy two full days of vendors and entertainment. Back by popular demand there is the Classic Car and Motorcycle Shows, hundreds of crafts vendors, a food court, three stages of live entertainment, a 5k race, a 1 mile fun walk/run, a huge KidZone full of fun and activities, an international foodcourt, and MORE!
Photo: John S. Quarterman for WWALS at Azalea Festival 2017.
For more WWALS events and outings, see the WWALS Calendar or Outings and Events.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
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