Great Suwannee River Clean up

[mag3]

Not Waynes' wife.

Fair enough.... Precisely the reason why we need a silhouette scorecard.

[sskasser]

Here are two photos from yesterday (2 Oct. 2010) showing part of the motley crew at Troy...

Thanks, Gene! These are great! Thanks for all the work you and your son did to help, as well!

Ya know, whenever anyone posts pictures of these events (ie. socials or cleanups etc.), it would help us non-locals a lot to have one of those "silhouette" pictures with numbers to be able to identify the players...

Of those in the 2nd picture (ie. the one with all the junk in it), I can identify:

• Wayne
• Kelly
• Shirley
• The lady next to Wayne (I assume his wife)

So who are all you other folks???

L-R in the junk picture:
Adam McDowell
Debbie Meeks' nephew
Debbie Meeks
Wayne Kinard
I'm sorry, I'm drawing on blank here, yikes!
Kelly Jessop
Shirley Kasser
Marc Bryan
Gene Page V

[mag3]

Thanks, Gene! These are great! Thanks for all the work you and your son did to help, as well!



L-R in the junk picture:
Adam McDowell
Debbie Meeks' nephew
Debbie Meeks
Wayne Kinard
I'm sorry, I'm drawing on blank here, yikes!
Kelly Jessop
Shirley Kasser
Marc Bryan
Gene Page V

Thanks much, Shriley! I guess it's just that some of us who don't get there that often tend to live a bit vicariously through CDF. It's just nice to be able to place faces to names, sometimes. It need not be *real* full names (for security purposes); either just first names, or even better, the "Cybername" since that's how I know many here.

Anyway, I'm glad to see such a valiant effort by the NFSA to keep our environments clean. And I hope to contribute to that effort by getting some visits in on the days when you are actively doing your projects/events.

[scottj]

We had fun across the river from you guys. I actually managed to talk some of the college students into taking their shoes off and wading in the river!

Next weekend is the Hal Adams bridge to Telford Spring Dive cleanup. Sign up on http://www.amigosdivecenter.com/cleanup.html
If the river is as clear as it was on the 25th the diving should actually be fun!
--Scott

[Kelly Jessop]

We had fun across the river from you guys. I actually managed to talk some of the college students into taking their shoes off and wading in the river!

Next weekend is the Hal Adams bridge to Telford Spring Dive cleanup. Sign up on http://www.amigosdivecenter.com/cleanup.html
If the river is as clear as it was on the 25th the diving should actually be fun!
--Scott

Scott,your leadership was imperative on the riverbank with the UF students,and we appreciate their help tremendously.

[scottj]

Kelly, Its always fun getting these students out in the "real" Florida! I think most of them think the outdoors is the mall parking lot.

Looking at the schedule we have one other dive cleanup on Oct 30th at Fanning Springs lead by Annette Long. We can use lots of help on this one supposedly the bottom of the river is coated with bottles. Contact information is on http://www.currentproblems.org/suwannee_cleanup.html

Also Wayne is leading a cleanup on 10/23 at Little River I do not believe it is a dive cleanup but if anyone is interested in getting into the river I am sure he will be OK with it.

[sskasser]

Kelly, Its always fun getting these students out in the "real" Florida! I think most of them think the outdoors is the mall parking lot.

Looking at the schedule we have one other dive cleanup on Oct 30th at Fanning Springs lead by Annette Long. We can use lots of help on this one supposedly the bottom of the river is coated with bottles. Contact information is on http://www.currentproblems.org/suwannee_cleanup.html

Also Wayne is leading a cleanup on 10/23 at Little River I do not believe it is a dive cleanup but if anyone is interested in getting into the river I am sure he will be OK with it.

Those both sound like fun, Scott! Thanks for the heads up!

[scottj]

Reproduced from emails thought I would re-post here:
897 lbs of trash + 6 tires for a grand total of 1089 lbs!PICT0608.jpg

[Daphne]

My son is on the first picture! Wayne was kindly babysitting while...I... went... diving... and... did... not... help... ahem...
Actually we ended up not going so I got to ride on his cool boat and see them in action! What a guy that Wayne is!! And what a team! My son had a blast, told me all about the stuff he picked up and the wild critters he saw on the river. He is ready to clean some more!
I saw a lovely turtle.

[sskasser]

My son is on the first picture! Wayne was kindly babysitting while...I... went... diving... and... did... not... help... ahem...
Actually we ended up not going so I got to ride on his cool boat and see them in action! What a guy that Wayne is!! And what a team! My son had a blast, told me all about the stuff he picked up and the wild critters he saw on the river. He is ready to clean some more!
I saw a lovely turtle.

Your son is SUCH a cutey! And so well behaved! Kudos!