Film series intends to share knowledge and encourage action
By Erika Engel, collingwoodtoday.ca Film series intends to share knowledge and encourage action
BTC Movie Night, November 21: You Are What You Act
When: Choose 5:00 pm or 7:30 pm on Wednesday, November 21 Where: Simcoe Street Theatre (across from the Collingwood Library) What Film: You Are What You Act Can you really fake it until you make it? You Are What You Act proposes a potential revolutionary new health trend by asking what [...]
TD Friends of the Environment give funding for next year’s BMWT Salmon Run
Watershed Trust Board members Deb Doherty, Norm Wingrove and Carl Michener receive funding for next year’s See the Salmon Run event from Collingwood TD branch manager Susan Tuohy and staff. $11000 of funding was granted through the TD Friends of the Environment program. Thank you, Susan & TD Friends of the Environment!
Our Youth Education Programs Continue
In December 2016 the Silver Creek stewardship Initiative Committee signed off on the last stages of our Ontario Trillium Foundation grant. One of the initiatives of the project was to expand environmental education in elementary schools in Collingwood and Thornbury through a working relationship with the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority, our [...]
Letters to the New Ontario Government
By Don Kerr, member of Board and WAG The Trust has written several letters to the new Ontario government in an attempt to improve environmental legislation. We wrote to the ministers of Municipal Affairs (MMA) and Natural Resources (MNR) to request that they work together to expand the Greenbelt including the Niagara [...]
Meet new WAG Member Lucy Richmond
Lucy with her grandchildren on the beach at Craigleith. About 15 years ago, when her daughter and son-in-law were expecting the arrival of their first child, Lucy purchased a small chalet in Craigleith, on the southern shore of Georgian Bay. The one-lane dirt road the chalet sits upon, with [...]
Saving our Shoreline: We Helped Fight the Phrag
Watershed Trust is one of the community groups helping to cut back invasive Phragmites, the pernicious grass that’s spreading along the Georgian Bay shoreline, local wetlands and streams. We received a $15,000 grant from the Weston Foundation towards Fighting the Phrag and passed the money on to the NVCA. Sarah Campbell, [...]
Be the Change – Season 11
As the Be The Change Film Series enters its second decade, it turns its attention to local youth. Volunteers from the Collingwood Youth Centre will help at the Simcoe Street Theatre. Showings are at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. There is a marketplace of local vendors, food and drink from the Collingwood Food Coop [...]
How Well Protected is the Silver Creek Wetland?
By Jan Ferrigan Almost anyone who moves to this area has the same sentiment that basically translates to – “Now that I’ve moved here, it’s getting crowded.” Newcomers and long time residents all want to slow development and preserve the natural areas that make South Georgian Bay such a wonderful place [...]
Collingwood Turtle Watch
Jeff Young founded Collingwood Turtle Watch last spring with a goal of creating awareness about all eight species now at risk. One of his current projects is putting up turtle crossing signs in some local turtle crossing areas. He put up his first sign this summer on Monterra Road facing west [...]