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Cleanup Sets Trash-Picking Record

Potomac gives up 376,933 pounds

 

Brad Dress
     Giant tires, propane gas tanks and shopping carts bogged down with mud.     Trash-picking volunteers found this trash and more in the littered waters of the Potomac River at the 31st annual Watershed Cleanup. The Alice Ferguson Foundation initiative sent out 9,745 volunteers between mid-March and late-May. They scooped 376,933 pounds of trash into garbage bags.
article –   –  by Brad Dress  – 7/3/19

A Dog-gone Good Day

Carmen says hello!

 

Kathy Knotts
      Bay Weekly was among the animal lovers Sunday at the annual Anne Arundel SPCA of Walk for the Animals at Quiet Waters Park. We said hello and snapped photos of canines and their humans to include in this year’s Pet Tales edition, hitting the streets August 1. 
article –   –  by Kathy Knotts  – 6/20/19

Eco-Buddies in Training

They’ll create school monarch gardens 

Brad Dress
    Deep in the woods of Millersville, 10 volunteers surrounded a sprawling, lush-green monarch garden. Insect life teemed among towering milkweed plants. A black swallowtail butterfly fluttered down, landing atop a green milkweed to spread its wings.     The disparate 10 had gathered to learn how to grow monarch gardens at local elementary schools.
article –   –  by Brad Dress  – 6/20/19

Swimming for Dad

37 years ago Brian Earley braved the waters of Chesapeake Bay to ­commemorate his late father, ­starting a tradition that lives to this day

 

Brad Dress
     Thinking only of a promise he made to his late father, Joseph, a determined Brian Earley stripped his black Towson University jacket from his shoulders and barreled through the rain and wind to the beachy shore. 
article –   –  by Brad Dress  – 6/13/19

The Enduring Legend of Bernie Fowler’s Wade-In

For the 32nd straight year, Fowler will lead friends and family into the Patuxent to make a point. For the first time, Betty Fowler won’t be with him.

 

Sandra Olivetti Martin
      When 95-year-old Bernie Fowler leads people into the Patuxent River on Sunday, the river in his heart will be one neither you nor I can imagine.      For the chain of followers linked arm in arm with the river champion in the annual test of water clarity, statistics tell the story of the river’s woes or redemption. Can the put-upon river with its D-grade report card achieve its Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan targets for 2025?
article –   –  by Sandra Olivetti Martin  – 6/7/19

Making an Old Fence a Good ­Neighbor

SOFO mobilizes community to rejuvenate ­Forest Drive eyesore

 

Brad Dress
     The 504-foot fence lining Annapolis Middle School is looking better all the time.      The once-faded, rusty-brown, chain-link fence spiked with barbed wire is now glowing night-black.       Three large painted metal crabs decorate the sections nearest the school. Colored ribbons twirl around the crabs in a rippling rainbow.
article –   –  by Brad Dress  – 6/7/19

What Floats Down the River

Patuxent River Park 150 trash bags cleaner

Warren Lee Brown
A lot of tires, a large fuel tank, baseballs and footballs plus plenty of bottles and plastic and Styrofoam containers. That kind of junk made up much of the 150 bags of trash found and removed from Patuxent River Park near Upper Marlboro by 50 volunteers and 10 staffers.
article –   –  by Warren Lee Brown  – 6/7/19

Every Foot of Our Shoreline Counts

It’s all counted in Chesapeake Bay Coastal Inventory

 

Warren Lee Brown
      “To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering,” conservationist Aldo Leopold’s advised.      In applying that precaution to Chesapeake Bay, the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences has inventoried 60 million linear feet of tidal shoreline. Bay waters meet almost 7,500 miles of land in Virginia and 4,000 in Maryland.
article –   –  by Warren Lee Brown  – 5/30/19

Greek for a Day

Experience the culture’s diversity at this annual festival 

 

Brad Dress
      At the Annapolis Greek Festival, something magical happens. You become Greek for a day.      Hosted by the Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church on Riva Road from Thursday, May 30 to the following Sunday, the festival thrusts you into a makeshift Greek homeland. In this land, you’ll find more than 30 Greek foods and dishes, as well as four dance groups, two bands and vendors selling unique arts and crafts.
article –   –  by Brad Dress  – 5/30/19

Summer Calls for Picnics, and Picnics Call for Games

Eight activities to keep you busy this summer … and that you can bring indoors when it rains

Bill Sells
      Hosts of Memorial Day gatherings pray that the rain gods will stay away. Maybe their prayers will be answered. Or maybe not. So it’s a good idea to have activities that can be moved inside if need be. Best not to use a room with a crystal chandelier or a fish tank. These games can quickly be moved back outside when the sun returns.   Cornhole
article –   –  by Bill Sells  – 5/23/19
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