Saturday, May 06, 2006
2006-05-04, White Oak River from the Quarry Lakes to Haywood Landing
White Oak River Paddle: Quarry Lakes to Haywood Landing
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Just click on the above. This is our report of this most enjoyable paddle. If you can't do it yourself we hope this presentation will enable you to enjoy it with us. Ed Gruca took all the pictures and prepared this presentation. Thank you Ed. You did an excellent job.
For next week the following is from Brian Wheat. If you wish to help please let them know. Elmer
"On Friday May 12th MCAS New River, North Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Onslow County and the City of Jacksonville will be disbursing alligator weed flea beetles on Southwest Creek in a cooperative effort to reduce the growth of alligator weed in this waterway and help is needed.
There is a very real need for folks able to paddle a canoe or kayak (MCAS New River will provided boats to those who need them) and maybe do a bit of portaging. We need two groups on Friday with one group checking in at the MCAS New River marina at 8 AM and the second group checking in the parking lot of the Onslow County Multipurpose Complex (Cooperative Extension/Senior Citizens) at 9 AM. Individuals should bring a cooler with some ice (this will be used to transport the beetles), drinking water and a lunch.
Those interested in working from the air station should contact Bianca Klein 449-4293 or via email (bianca.j.klein@usmc.mil) no later than Monday afternoon or at
(910) 381-6613 after Monday.
Those interested in working with the group meeting at the County Multipurpose Complex should contact Dale Weston at 459-2977 or via email at majortest@earthlink.net.
Both groups will be paddling on Southwest Creek; just starting from different locations
Your help in this effort will go a long way toward reducing the growth of alligator weed in our waters.
Thank you in advance,
Brian"
Elmer, The White Oak River Trashman
Stewards of The White Oak River Basin
101 River Reach Drive West, Swansboro, NC. 28584
910-389-4588
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Just click on the above. This is our report of this most enjoyable paddle. If you can't do it yourself we hope this presentation will enable you to enjoy it with us. Ed Gruca took all the pictures and prepared this presentation. Thank you Ed. You did an excellent job.
For next week the following is from Brian Wheat. If you wish to help please let them know. Elmer
"On Friday May 12th MCAS New River, North Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Onslow County and the City of Jacksonville will be disbursing alligator weed flea beetles on Southwest Creek in a cooperative effort to reduce the growth of alligator weed in this waterway and help is needed.
There is a very real need for folks able to paddle a canoe or kayak (MCAS New River will provided boats to those who need them) and maybe do a bit of portaging. We need two groups on Friday with one group checking in at the MCAS New River marina at 8 AM and the second group checking in the parking lot of the Onslow County Multipurpose Complex (Cooperative Extension/Senior Citizens) at 9 AM. Individuals should bring a cooler with some ice (this will be used to transport the beetles), drinking water and a lunch.
Those interested in working from the air station should contact Bianca Klein 449-4293 or via email (bianca.j.klein@usmc.mil) no later than Monday afternoon or at
(910) 381-6613 after Monday.
Those interested in working with the group meeting at the County Multipurpose Complex should contact Dale Weston at 459-2977 or via email at majortest@earthlink.net.
Both groups will be paddling on Southwest Creek; just starting from different locations
Your help in this effort will go a long way toward reducing the growth of alligator weed in our waters.
Thank you in advance,
Brian"
Elmer, The White Oak River Trashman
Stewards of The White Oak River Basin
101 River Reach Drive West, Swansboro, NC. 28584
910-389-4588
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
2006-04-29 Swansboro Harbor Clean Up
We took students of Swansboro High School over to Sharks Tooth Island to clean up this island for our visiting tourists who are attracted to it for picnics and swimming because of the nice sandy beaches.
The students also received credits toward scholarship funds for participating. .
We had a very successful clean up as far as it went. We could only cover the first few hundered feet of Sharks Tooth Island because the trash was so thick and heavy.
We hope some other groups will get together and clean up the rest. Its a shame for us to have this trash where our tourists want to swim or picnic. It makes a mockery out of our advertising clean waters and beaches to get them here!
The students did an excellent job as you can see from the pictures. I apologize for not writing down their names for this article. They will have their names at school in the Guidance Dept. .
Stewards coming to help out were Tom Delaroderie of Morehead City, Joanne Somerday of Kinston, and Wil Stanley of Hubert and Jennifer Lisowski of Swansboro who is a teacher at the school.
2006-04-29, Swansboro Harbor Clean UP 002.jpg --getting ready to go,
2006-04-29, Swansboro Harbor Clean UP 003.jpg -- " " " ", Tom on the left, Joanne on the right
2006-04-29, Swansboro Harbor Clean UP 004.jpg -- " " " ", Tom on the left, Elmer on the right
2006-04-29, Swansboro Harbor Clean UP 005.jpg --snack time on a cleaned beach
2006-04-29, Swansboro Harbor Clean UP 006.jpg --one pile of trash on the beach
2006-04-29, Swansboro Harbor Clean UP 007.jpg --Jennifer and Jessica and John Eddy at the boat and Wil & Tom in the rear
2006-04-29, Swansboro Harbor Clean UP 009.jpg --the litter and trash piled up on the lawn in front of the High School.
We hope this pile of trash, displayed in this manner, will graphically depict just what litterers are doing to our waters and beaches and access points at bridges and shore lines and roads.We hope this will motivate the general public to simply stop littering!
"If no one litters, there will be no litter." This will not only give us clean waters and roads but will save our State millions and free up those who do pick up the stuff to do other more constructive and valuable accomplishments. Volunteers time is valuable too!
Ted Simpson of Towboat USA and his wife, Jane, picked up a boat load of trash from the island and transported and unloaded it at the Wildlife Ramp. Jane is in the Administratve Dept. at the school and helped us organize this clean up.
John Eddy provided the snacks and cold drinks and also took a boat load of trash to the ramp. His sons, Jack and Sam helped Elmer load the trash into his truck and take it to the school. It took two trips.
We thank all the above for making this a very successful trash pick up and we thank Lamar Hudgens of Barrier Island Kayaks for supplying the extra kayaks we needed to get the students over to the island.
This week, Thursday, May 4th, we will meet at 9:00 at Gibson Bridge and do from Enmmets Lane to Gibson on The White Oak River. We will check out the large blue heron rookery and the egret rookery we saw last time. Elmer
Elmer, The White Oak River Trashman
Stewards of The White Oak River Basin
101 River Reach Drive West, Swansboro, NC. 28584
910-389-4588 e-mail:
The students also received credits toward scholarship funds for participating. .
We had a very successful clean up as far as it went. We could only cover the first few hundered feet of Sharks Tooth Island because the trash was so thick and heavy.
We hope some other groups will get together and clean up the rest. Its a shame for us to have this trash where our tourists want to swim or picnic. It makes a mockery out of our advertising clean waters and beaches to get them here!
The students did an excellent job as you can see from the pictures. I apologize for not writing down their names for this article. They will have their names at school in the Guidance Dept. .
Stewards coming to help out were Tom Delaroderie of Morehead City, Joanne Somerday of Kinston, and Wil Stanley of Hubert and Jennifer Lisowski of Swansboro who is a teacher at the school.
2006-04-29, Swansboro Harbor Clean UP 002.jpg --getting ready to go,
2006-04-29, Swansboro Harbor Clean UP 003.jpg -- " " " ", Tom on the left, Joanne on the right
2006-04-29, Swansboro Harbor Clean UP 004.jpg -- " " " ", Tom on the left, Elmer on the right
2006-04-29, Swansboro Harbor Clean UP 005.jpg --snack time on a cleaned beach
2006-04-29, Swansboro Harbor Clean UP 006.jpg --one pile of trash on the beach
2006-04-29, Swansboro Harbor Clean UP 007.jpg --Jennifer and Jessica and John Eddy at the boat and Wil & Tom in the rear
2006-04-29, Swansboro Harbor Clean UP 009.jpg --the litter and trash piled up on the lawn in front of the High School.
We hope this pile of trash, displayed in this manner, will graphically depict just what litterers are doing to our waters and beaches and access points at bridges and shore lines and roads.We hope this will motivate the general public to simply stop littering!
"If no one litters, there will be no litter." This will not only give us clean waters and roads but will save our State millions and free up those who do pick up the stuff to do other more constructive and valuable accomplishments. Volunteers time is valuable too!
Ted Simpson of Towboat USA and his wife, Jane, picked up a boat load of trash from the island and transported and unloaded it at the Wildlife Ramp. Jane is in the Administratve Dept. at the school and helped us organize this clean up.
John Eddy provided the snacks and cold drinks and also took a boat load of trash to the ramp. His sons, Jack and Sam helped Elmer load the trash into his truck and take it to the school. It took two trips.
We thank all the above for making this a very successful trash pick up and we thank Lamar Hudgens of Barrier Island Kayaks for supplying the extra kayaks we needed to get the students over to the island.
This week, Thursday, May 4th, we will meet at 9:00 at Gibson Bridge and do from Enmmets Lane to Gibson on The White Oak River. We will check out the large blue heron rookery and the egret rookery we saw last time. Elmer
Elmer, The White Oak River Trashman
Stewards of The White Oak River Basin
101 River Reach Drive West, Swansboro, NC. 28584
910-389-4588 e-mail:
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