Update 2020-01-01: Gretchen delivered the kayak three days later.
Outings Committee member Shelby Miller, who had not gotten a WWALS kayak raffle ticket, ran to draw the winner as WWALS Board members Dan Phillips and Bobby McKenzie cooked and watched.
WWALS Executive Director Gretchen Quarterman took tickets from envelopes from various festivals and other events and put them all in a box. 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.
Update 2019-12-09: And the winner is…
Kayak raffle tickets available!
![[Kayak Raffle Drawing December 7, 2019]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-12-07--kayak-raffle/2019-12-07--kayak-raffle-poster-thanks-0001.jpg)
Kayak Raffle Drawing December 7, 2019
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Tickets:
Get tickets anytime, online, or at a WWALS festival booth.
Suggested Donation $5.00 for one ticket; $20.00 for five tickets
Drawing: December 7, 2019; you do not have to be present to win.
What: Perception Swifty Deluxe 95 Angler Sit Inside Kayak, $399.99 value
Why:
Support WWALS Advocacy
and projects, including
water quality testing,
water trails,
and
outings.
And you could always use another kayak.
Thanks: Eileen Box, for donating the kayak!
![[Raffle kayak with Gretchen, Cindy, Amy, and Yellow and Brown Dog]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-12-07--kayak-raffle/raffle-kayak.jpg)
Raffle kayak with Gretchen, Cindy, Amy, and Yellow and Brown Dog
Yes, the wheels also come with the kayak.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
The winner is: Josh Maichele of Boston, Georgia.
![[Josh Maichele, Gretchen Quarterman, brother]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-07-15--kayak-raffle-winner/20190715_170506.jpg)
Photo: John S. Quarterman, Josh Maichele, Gretchen Quarterman, brother
That’s in the Piscola Creek watershed. He came over to the other side of the Withlacoochee River to collect his prize. Continue reading
Draft Agenda
WWALS Annual Member Meeting
2:00-2:30 PM, Sunday, 14 July 2019, followed by the WWALS Quarterly Board Meeting
South Georgia Regional Library,
2906 Julia Dr, Valdosta, GA 31602Dial-in Number: (712) 770-5505
Meeting ID: 855-676
facebook eventPresentation of annual report, election of board members and selection of kayak raffle winner!
The Hobie Mirage Outback raffle kayak, donated by Dr. Tom Phillips.WWALS members can vote in this annual meeting, and the public is invited to observe.
Board members are listed in www.wwals.net/board.
Update 2019-08-01: And the winner is….
Thanks to some generous WWALS members, we are raffling off a Hobie Mirage Outback kayak, 12′ 9″ long by 34″ wide, with pedals, rudder, and wheels. New it lists for $2700. This one obviously is used, but it is still worth over a thousand dollars. See below for tickets, drawing, and specifications.
Photo: John S. Quarterman at Suwannee Spring Reunion, 2019-03-21.
Tickets are $5 each or five for $20. You can get them Continue reading
She was waiting by the phone when we called her from the Suwannee River, and we delivered the raffle kayak to Sebrina Mack of Berrien County, Georgia, a few days later.
Thanks to all who donated to get raffle tickets: it helps all our advocacy and stewardship. Continue reading
In the middle of our Okefenokee Campout and Paddle, we stopped at Griffis Fish Camp, with the Suwannee River behind us, to pick the long awaited winner of the fall 2018 WWALS kayak raffle, who is….
Sebrina Mack, of Nashville, Georgia!
Sebrina Mack wins a Sundolphin Trek 10 Kayak, contributed by WWALS board member Bret Wagenhorst at the Berrien County Harvest Festival, in Nashville, Georgia.
We thank everyone who got a raffle ticket. All the proceeds go to supporting the activities and advocacy of WWALS Watershed Coalition.
Here’s the video: Continue reading
The WWALS booth will be back in Quitman, Georgia, this Saturday at the Skillet Festival, with buttons and stickers (WWALS, Suwannee Riverkeeper, Water Trails, Water Is Life) and the raffle kayak.
When: 9AM-3:30 PM, Saturday, October 20, 2017
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
Event: facebook
WWALS at the Skillet Festival in 2017.
More: For more WWALS outings and events Continue reading
![[Shelby Miller to draw]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-12-07--kayak-raffle-drawing-griffis-fish-camp/20191207_172824.jpg)