SOQUE BULLETIN
May 23, 2011
1) "Five in Five" awesome PARTY for all SRWA supporters Friday, June 3rd
2) Tour of Sustainable Water Supplies - Thursday, May 26th
3) Rain Barrel Fittings Day - postponed till parts come in
1) "Five in Five" awesome PARTY for all SRWA supporters Friday, June 3rd
You may have heard a little something about the SRWA's reputation for parties. They're usually somewhere on the scale between super fun and totally awesome! Last year we found an ideal site for such adventures at the beautiful Sutton Mill, which of course is right smack dab on Sutton Mill Creek a tributary to Beaverdam Creek which is a tributary to…you guessed it the Soque River.
The "5 in 5" fundraiser is a fun way for us to raise $5,000 in 5 days for the Soque River Watershed Association. Each day of the fundraiser we'll highlight a different program of the SRWA so that by the end of the week you have a pretty good idea of all the myriad and sometimes unusual projects that we undertake in our efforts to make the Soque clean, vibrant, and hopefully innovative when it comes to water quality, water supply and sustainability. Along the way we hope you'll be inspired to help us make our fundraising goal through a special gift, gift membership for a friend, or any other number of ways. The "5 in 5" is also a great time of year for us to say thanks to all of you who are giving us the resources, the donations, the time, the encouragement, and the sheer force and influence of some of the coolest people around to make our community a stand out when it comes to conservation leadership.
That's why at the culmination of the "5 in 5" we like to throw a big free party in honor of all our supporters. This year we're kicking it up a couple notches with great Caribbean food cooked up by one of our newest friends and a native Caribbean herself, Gaby's of Toccoa whose dishes hail from her original home of Haiti. Gaby will be treating us to Jerk Chicken, Succulent Fried Pork with spicy coleslaw, vegetable rice, fried plantains and spicy cabbage. To make sure that spice is soothed cool we'll have some drinks featuring rum, coconut and/or mint. Ahhh!!!
We'll also have a great raffle featuring local restaurant gift certificates, artisan fly fishing ties, Local Food certificate, handmade cutting board, and much, much more. You can buy your tickets from an SRWA board member, at the office, or at the party.
We're trying something new this year, it's a great little RSVP form that practically sends itself. It's a great way for us to track our progress towards our goal by calculating pledges along the way. If you use internet e-mail you may need to save the form and e-mail it back to srwa@windstream.net. Otherwise it should just be one click to send it back to us. We also have a brand new online giving system on our website that's working great, but we'll hold off talking about that until the "5 in 5"officially begins. Until then, SAVE THIS DATE….Friday June 3rd - 6pm! Don't miss it.
Jerk chicken + Mojitos + Sutton Mill = Cool Summer Party
2) Tour of Sustainable Water Supplies - Thursday, May 26th
The Soque River Watershed Association’s sustainability tours series continues on Thursday May 26th with an in-depth exploration of exactly how water gets from the stream, to your home, then back to the stream again, and how individuals and municipalities can implement conservation practices along the way. The Tour of Sustainable Water Supplies will be the first tour to highlight Habersham County’s municipal water suppliers, the sources of their water, how they manage long-term water quality and quantity, and the costs of building and maintaining water infrastructure. Featured during the tour will be the city of Clarkesville’s water treatment plant, Cornelia’s water and wastewater plants, and a quick visit to Habersham Mills Lake, proposed as a potential future water source by the Habersham County Commissioners.
“Water is part of every activity in Habersham County,” says Justin Ellis, SRWA director. “We hope this tour will interest everyone who cares about how our water works, where it comes from, how clean it is, how abundant, what it’s used for, and most importantly how we can come up with creative strategies to use it more efficiently.”
The tour will be hosted by water utility directors Tim Durham in Clarkesville and Keith Ethridge in Cornelia, as well as members of the Habersham County Water Authority and residents of Habersham Mills Lake. All attendees will receive a short publication that outlines water use in Habersham County, peak months for water demands and principal uses, and conservation methods employed to reduce loss. The tour will also discuss all the various options for meeting future water demands.
“Understanding how water works, both in the natural environment, and in our man-made environments, is the first step in figuring out how to manage our resources more sustainably. This tour will generate a lot of good ideas about what a sustainable water supply could look like,” says Ellis.
The free tour will run from 2-5 pm and will meet on the left side of Old Clarkesville Mill. All attendees are encouraged to RSVP your name and address to soque@windstream.net or call 706-754-9382. Non-RSVP attendees may not have full access to some parts of the tour for security reasons.
Cornelia’s Camp Creek Reservoir will be one of the areas featured during the Tour.
3) Rain Barrel Fittings Day - postponed till parts come in
This was a last minute work day that we just didn't quite have everything we needed. We'll let you know when we reschedule.
Justin Ellis
Executive Director
Soque River Watershed Association
706-754-9382
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