On the front page of the local newspaper: the Suwannee Riverkeeper float in the White Springs Christmas Parade. Thanks, Randy Madison and Jasper News!
![[The Suwannee Riverkeeper float included a canoe.]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-12-12--white-springs-parade-float-jasper-news/IMG_5060.jpg)
The Suwannee Riverkeeper float included a canoe.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Assisting the festivities at the White Springs Christmas Parade Friday, Suwannee Riverkeeper banners flew on both sides of a float, thanks to longtime WWALS member Randy Madison.
Randy asked for some banners, and WWALS Executive Director Gretchen Quarterman delivered them, meeting Randy halfway, along with former WWALS board member Eileen Box of Live Oak. Continue reading
Update 2022-10-19: Pictures: Alapaha Station Celebration 2019-11-09.
Join us for fun, food, and a parade at the Alapaha Station Celebration, and at the WWALS booth Enviroscape, maps, pictures, and all about outings and advocacy, Saturday, November 9, 2019, we’ll be there the sixth year running.
When: 9AM – 5PM, Saturday, November 9, 2019
Where: Alapaha Station, 245 NE Railroad St, Alapaha, Georgia
Event: facebook
![[Taken in our watersheds]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2018-11-10--alapaha-station-celebration-pictures/20181110_145408.jpg)
All those pictures were taken in our watersheds. Photo: John S. Quarterman for WWALS at Alapaha Station Celebration 2018
The station is only a few miles from Continue reading
Lots of people studied the Suwannee Basin map to see where everything is, last year at the 2018 Alapaha Station Celebration. We’ll be back in a few weeks, at the first local festival WWALS attended.
The Enviroscape (in front of Gretchen) was popular. Continue reading
Get some fresh-fried food at the Skillet Festival, and come by the WWALS booth, in Quitman, Georgia, this Saturday. Yes, we will have the raffle kayak. And what will NextEra be up to this year?
When: 9AM-3:30 PM, Saturday, October 19, 2019
Where: Brooks County Courthouse, 100 Screven Street, Quitman, Georgia 31643
What: Brooks County Skillet Festival, quilts, cooking, vegetable market, fashion, dogs, clogging, skillet toss, race, and parade
Volunteer: You can help at the WWALS booth. Sign up on this form or send us email.
Event: facebook
WWALS at the Skillet Festival in 2018.
At the 2018 Skillet Festival in Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, the froggy toss game was quite popular.
Join us at the 38th Annual Hahira Honeybee Festival, at the WWALS booth about water quality testing, water trails, paddle outings, holding polluters accountable, all to make sure that water in our area is swimmable, fishable, drinkable. Come help us spread the water word.
When:
10AM-6PM, Friday, October 4, 2019
9AM-6PM, Saturday, October 5, 2019
Where: West Main Street, Hahira, Georgia
Theme: “Teachers, changing our world one child at a time!”
Volunteer: You can help at the WWALS booth. Sign up on this form or send us email.
Event: facebook
Photo: John S. Quarterman, of Gretchen Quarterman making rain on the Enviroscape for a family, Honeybee 2018.
Thanks for the donation of the EnviroScape,
Savannah Barry
and Nature Coast Biological Station.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
The third year we’ll be there, and the tenth year of the festival, in downtown Nashville, Georgia, between the Alapaha and Withlacoochee Rivers. Yes, we will be raffling a kayak, and talking about outings and advocacy, plus water trails, including the Alapaha River Water Trail and the Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail.
Plus volunteer opportunities, and we are seeking interns!
Gretchen Quarterman observes, last year, 2018.
When: 9AM to 3PM, Saturday, September 28, 2019
Where: Downtown Square and Farmer’s Market, 101 North Davis Street, Nashville GA 31639
Event: facebook
Come on down to Nashville, Georgia!
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Come on down to the South Georgia Pride Festival in Saunders Park in Valdosta this Saturday. At the WWALS booth you can play the froggy toss game and talk about our outings and advocacy, including how you can volunteer to help keep our waters clean!
When: Noon-5PM, Saturday, September 21, 2019
Where: John W. Saunders Park, 1151 River Street, Valdosta, Georgia
Event: facebook
Maybe we’ll do water quality tests on Sugar Creek. Continue reading
It was a fun time last year at South Georgia Pride. Join us at Saunders Park again this Saturday!
Maybe Barber Spring will be running. Maybe we’ll do water quality tests on Sugar Creek. Continue reading
![[Day]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-12-06--white-springs-parade-float/IMG_4992.jpg)
![[with Gretchen]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2018-11-10--alapaha-station-celebration-pictures/20181110_143448.jpg)
![[Froggy Toss]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2018-09-15--soga-pride/20180915_132415.jpg)
![[Gretchen at the booth]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2018-09-15--soga-pride/20180915_132408.jpg)