When: Choose 5:00 pm or 7:30 pm on Wednesday, October 17th Where: Simcoe Street Theatre (across from the Collingwood Library) What Film: Metamorphosis Billed as ‘a poem for the planet’, Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper’s film Metamorphosis takes the pulse of our earth and bears witness to a moment of profound [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Be The Change Film Series – year 11! Bringing youth into the picture in longstanding socially conscious film series- Movie Night, October 17th: Metamorphosis As the socially and environmentally conscious Be The Change Film Series enters its second decade, it turns its attention to local youth. Young volunteers [...]
Help us fight an aggressive invasive plant in Collingwood & Blue Mountains 2 August 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Collingwood, ON – On August 18th the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust will be going head-to-head with Phragmites Australis, an invasive grass that grows so thick that turtles become trapped and die. "It’s an extremely [...]
DATE: Saturday, August 18th 2018 TIME: Morning session 8:00 – 11:00, Lunch 11:30 – 1:00, Afternoon session 1:00 – 4:30 LOCATION: West Collingwood Shoreline (map to come) Phragmites is an invasive plant that poses a serious threat to our local environment. It has invaded our beaches and our wetlands. If left [...]
Save the Date: Volunteer on August 18 to “Fight the Phrag! This will be the fourth summer that Watershed Trust, NVCA, the Town of Collingwood and Georgian Bay Forever have joined together to cut down the invasive Phragmites along the Collingwood shoreline. Again this year we will target the Eastern Fen, [...]
DATE: October -March 2018 See show times below TIME: 5PM & 7:30PM ADDRESS: Simcoe Street Theatre, 65 Simcoe St, Collingwood, ON, L9Y 1H7. 705-888-8502 BE THE CHANGE FILM SERIES Season 10 of Be The Change Film Series starts October 2018 with a great lineup of films [...]
See the Salmon Run 2017 By Carl Michener Event organizer, Carl Michener, left with Sonny Foley who not only provided the property but also helped set up tables and booths and chairs For the second year running, the Watershed Trust put on See the Salmon Run, our main yearly [...]
Fight The Phrag! On August 12, This Summer, the Crews Were Out Working By George Powell, Watershed Action Group. Photos by Duncan Bristow, also of Watershed Action Group Aquatic biologist Sara Finnimore and Fred Dobbs both of the NVCA led the cut in the Hen and Chickens area, public lands [...]
BE THE CHANGE OUR 10th Year Once again, Blue Mountain Watershed Trust and Elephant Thoughts along with other community partners are presenting "Be the Change" Documentary Series of films about our fragile ecosystem and what each of us can do to help. Ticket proceeds support Blue Mountain Watershed Trust and Elephant [...]
DATE: Saturday, September 23RD TIME: 11:00AM - 4:00PM ADDRESS: 609830 12th Sideroad, Town Of the Blue Mountains (Just West of The Intersection of 6th St and Grey Rd 19 (Osler Bluff Rd)) SEMINAR ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES (Silver Creek Stewardship Initiative Committee-Blue Mountain Watershed Trust) [...]
