Stewards of the White Oak River Basin Current Events

News Release. May 20, 2004

Sharks Tooth Island is to Swanbsoro and Cedar Point like Sugarloaf is to Morehead City. When we clean up Sugarloaf we found milk bottles with a 5c return. This dates them to be over fifty years old.

Today on Sharks Tooth Island Pam Bader found a Pepsi bottle with 10-02-04 on it. How old is it?

We cleaned this island in 2002 and were able to declare the entire White Oak River watershed clean of all trash. The pics will demonstrate what we found today. Again this island is ready for our summer visitors. How long will it stay that way?

Most all of the trash on SharksTooth Island was recent. We have got to stop littering like this, folks. Please everyone, join in our new Anti-Litter Campaign. All you have to do is sign the pledge "I will not litter". When everyone does this we will no longer have litter to contend with.

Today was a special day for eight of our long time regulars. They are Joanne Kennedy from Kinston, Jim Stevens and Tom Fineco from New bern, Ken Court from Jacksonville, Brian Leavy from Pine Knoll Shores, Pam and Bob Bader from Emerald Isle.and Elmer Eddy from Swansboro.

The tears in our eyes were not only from the cloud burst that hit us as were loading our boats to leave, but because Pam and Bob Bader will be leaving us. Bob, recently back from his second assignment in Iraq, as a Marine aviator, has been transferred to Quantico.

We treated them to a gourmet luncheon on the open upper deck of the Gourmet Cafe as a send off with our best wishes.

For the rest of the pictures , please visit our web site.

Nwxt week Wednesday, weather permitting, we do the Harlowe Canal, the birth place of our present Intra Coastal Waterway. What treasures will we find there? Join us and find out. It will be an adventure into new waters for us. Elmer


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Elmer, The White Oak River Trashman
Stewards of the White Oak River Basin
Please visit: www.whiteoakstewards.org 910-389-4588
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