Last year at Alapaha Station Celebration we met a lot of people ad had a good time. We’ll be back there this Saturday.
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Hulaween Friday
Fun and informative, thanks to Scotti Jay and Sara Squires, camping at Hulaween all weekend, and sailing the raffle kayak on Lake Ave.
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Hulaween Setup 2017-10-25
Most popular question (after what does Suwannee Riverkeeper do): what about Valdosta wastewater? Hulaween hadn’t even started yet, when yesterday afternoon we already signed up one volunteer for the forthcoming WWALS water quality monitoring program.
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WWALS at Brooks County Skillet Festival 2017-10-21
The travelling WWALS booth will be in Quitman, Georgia, this Saturday at the Skillet Festival. We will have buttons and stickers (WWALS, Suwannee Riverkeeper, Water Trails, Water Is Life) and the raffle kayak. If you like, bring a piece of cast iron for WWALS to raffle off, as well.
When: 9AM-3:30 PM, Saturday, October 21, 2017
Where: Brooks County Courthouse, 100 Screven Street, Quitman, Georgia 31643
What: Brooks County Skillet Festival, quilts, cooking, fashion, dogs, clogging, skillet toss, race, and parade
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WWALS at Suwannee Hulaween 2017-10-27-29 2017-10-26 thru 2017-10-29
Update 2017-10-20: Hulaween has expanded into starting noonish Thursday, October 26, 2017. WWALS will set up Wednesday and the WWALS booth will be open Thursday.
What’s twice the size of Wanee and in the fall? Suwannee Hulaween!
When: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, October 27,28,29, 2017
Where: Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak, Florida
We will have another kayak raffle, and come talk to us about paddling, outings, spills, sinkholes, water trails, song contest, and anything else that affects our rivers or our aquifer. If you want to help at the WWALS booth, any of October 27, 28, or 29, please contact us.
Thanks to Debbie Lee for helping arrange this.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Wanee Wednesday 2017-04-19
Spring at the music park with a few tens of thousands of friends: Wanee 2017, Wednesday through Sunday. Lots of people bought kayak raffle tickets.
Continue readingWWALS @ Suwannee Roots Revival 2017-10-12-15
Back for a second year at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, WWALS at Suwannee River Roots Revival, this time with the Suwannee Riverkeeper banner, Way Down Upon the Suwannee River at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park (SoSMP). We can always use help at the booth, so contact us if you want to help talk to people about paddle outings, water trails, sewage spills, fertilizer runoff, coal ash, phosphate mines, pipelines, holding polluters accountable, and fishable, swimmable drinkable waters throughout the Suwannee River Basin.
When: Thursday through Sunday, October 12-15, 2017
Where: Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak, Florida
Questions and the Suwannee Riverkeeper banner at Suwannee Spring Revival 2017-03-23.
Last year was the first time WWALS had a booth at a SoSMP event, and was the first year for the Roots Revival. It’s true most of the attendees saw it as Continue reading
Suwannee Spring Reunion 2017-03-23-26
Four days of music and good conversation, not to mention beer, Suwannee Riverkeeper went to Suwannee Spring Reunion, Way Down Upon the Suwannee River at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park.
Gretchen listening, Thursday
Continue readingWWALS @ Hahira Honeybee Festival 2017-10-06-7
At the WWALS booth at the 36th Annual Hahira Honeybee Festival, we will be talking about water trails, paddle outings, holding poluters accountable, and making sure that water in our area is swimmable, fishable, drinkable. Come help us spread the water word.
When: 9AM-6PM, Friday and Saturday, 6,7 October 2017
Where: West Main Street, Hahira, Georgia
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Pictures: WWALS @ South Georgia Pride 2017-09-16
Fun was had by all at the WWALS booth at South Georgia Pride, in Saunders Park, Valdosta, Georgia, September 16, 2017. Plus we saw the remains of an artesian spring. Here are pictures plus a google map.
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