With 25,000 of our closest friends at the Hahira Honeybee Festival. Maybe it was the Morrocco Shriners, but it was magic.
For comparison, Hahira’s 2016 population was 2,937.
Category Archives: Festival
Skillet Festival, Quitman, Brooks County, GA 2017-10-21
A fine day, good food, raffles, and lots of interest in water trails, cleanups, outings, etc. at Brooks County Skillet Fest.
Raffle kayak and Gretchen, WWALS booth
In addition to the then-ongoing kayak raffle, Gretchen bought a skillet that we raffled off. Continue reading
WWALS at Alapaha Station Celebration 2017-11-11
Update 2018-11-09: Pictures.
We will have the WWALS festival booth at the Alapaha Station Celebration on Saturday November 11, for the fourth year running. Join us for a fun day of outreach to members of our community.
When: 9AM – 5PM, Saturday, November 11, 2017
Where: Alapaha Station, 245 NE Railroad St, Alapaha, Georgia
Miss Alapaha Station Mini Supreme at the WWALS booth last year.
The station is only a few miles from Continue reading
Pictures: WWALS at Alapaha Station Celebration 2016-11-12
Last year at Alapaha Station Celebration we met a lot of people ad had a good time. We’ll be back there this Saturday.
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.
Day: Continue reading
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.
I also already sold a kayak raffle ticket yesterday. Thanks again to Continue reading
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
Schedule: Continue reading
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.
WWALS @ 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