Yes! We have some exciting and amazing things planned for the community in 2024 for the Upward Bound/Nanticoke River Watershed Conservancy Workstudy!
Planning a community open house for a Chapel Branch Nature Trail event for July 21st – open to adults and youth – free (but open to donations) event- full of free giveaways, a silent auction for some local gift baskets received, games, a nature trail walk and tons more!)
We mowed the grass on our NRWC building property
We did a first inspection of the trail and clipped various places where vines/thorns were reaching onto trail
We unleashed the NRWC 50+ person banquet tent and tarted cleaning
We started generating on ideas for an upcoming, new community book read
We discussed future projects coming up:
Wild flower seeds planted under bat boxes and what is to be planted around Chapel Branch Trail sign
Update kiosk with new information for the public
Checking on surveillance cameras on the trail next week
Precious Plastics grant idea to create a local, youth operated recycling of plastics business
Preparing for a local native indigenous arborium in Seaford and a podcast pertaining to this based on Glen Mellin and Lennie Truitt
https://libapps.salisbury.edu/nabb-archives/local-history-archives/2018.025
(Ritual Landscapes: A Journal Synthesis, Mellin and Truitt, 2017). The
collection of 29 chapters is available for download on the Archaeology
Society of Delaware Digital Library website:
http://www.delawarearchaeology.org/
Setting up a podcast interview with current and former NRWC executive directors, Marlene Mervine and Lisa Jo Frech.
Former NRWC executive director (first one!) – podcast!
Creating a podcast opportunity with the NRWC building contractor, Shirey Contracting for paths of insight into the Upward Bound workstudys interested in engineering.
That was just the first week – stay tuned for some major developments forward for the NRWC and community youth as we work together!
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