Welcome to Friends of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River's Site...
Friends of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River is a grassroots citizens' group that relies on people like you... whether you live here in teh basin of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, or you just care about it. Each spring we hold an Annual meeting to share our accomplishments for the year as well as the upcoming goals that we are setting. Our 2011 Annual report consists of all these items and can help you understand our organization better. For the past 6 years, in the Fall we host our annual Fish Fry Fund raising event where the past three years we have enlisted local artistic talent to create items for us to sell to raise funds to help us raise awareness of the many issues that the Shenandoah River faces both now and in the future. Our contact information is at the bottom of each page on this site and we would love to have you join us and get involved to help our efforts to protect our river.
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Winter/Spring 2012 Newsletter
Just released 4/5/2012
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Learn
What You Can Do!
Watch these Informational Videos
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| Garden Tour in Strasburg |
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Helping Friends of the North Fork
One of our sponsors, Natural Art Garden Center,
hosted a garden tour in our honor a week ago and helped Friends help
the river while promoting rain gardens. The tour was at the wonderful
garden of Craig Morris & Mike Marcheterre's in Strasburg that NAGC
worked on. Friends got the proceeds from the event and Craig and Mike
got to show off their rain garden and vegetable garden in full glory.
Lynne Phillips from NAGC, was on hand to answer any technical questions
about the rain garden and their work and help others see how easy it is
to think about how you can harvest water and keep the pollutants out of
our river. The Winchester News was there too and you can read their article about the event here.
Thanks so much Lynne, for all you and Natural Art Garden Center does for Friends of the North Fork and for the Shenandoah River. AND, thanks to Craig and Mike for sharing your lovely gardens and the proceeds from the event.
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Drinking Water Clinic Meetings
Page, Sheandoah, and Warren Counties
June 2012
Does your water come from a well, spring or cistern?
Do you want to learn more about the quality of your water?
Click here for how you can have your water tested.
Meetings to learn more are on the following dates:
Page County: June 18, 2012 at 6:30pm
Sheandoah County: June 19, 2012 at 6:30pm
Warren County: June 26, 2012 at 6:30pm
CLICK THE ICON (PDF.) below for a flyer with more information:
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Smith Creek Family Fun Day!
A Great Time for All
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Our Smith Creek Family Fun was a HUGE success and the rain even held off to make it a beautiful day to spend learning about the best mangement pracitices and the plants, trees, and critters that depend on Smith Creek for life.
THANK YOU to ALL of the Sponsors, Volunteers and Event Organizers but most of of THANKS to ALL that participated in the the event on April 21, 2012! Special thanks to Bill Gallucci for hosting the event at his farm.
Congratulations to Suzy Skidmore who is the winner of the kayak and paddle raffle!
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PHARMACEUTICAL TAKE BACK OPPORTUNITIES
Friends is partnering with pharmacies throughout the North Fork Watershed to bring a continuous opportunity to properly dispose of your unused or unwanted (non-narcotic) drugs....read more.
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Check out Our Local Sponsors...
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| Natural Art Garden Center |
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| C.E. Thompsons & Sons |
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| Blue Canoe Crew |
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| Fort Valley Nursery |
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