Vandalization raises awareness about water protection!

May 14, 2010
The Battleford Wildlife Federation is ring leader in promoting Yellow Fish Road in the City of North Battleford. On Saturday and Sunday, June 5 & 6, school kids and volunteers will be out vandalizing the streets with stencils of yellow fish near storm water drains to raise awareness about storm water drainage. Information will be delivered to the local residents educating on why it is important not to let nasty things get into our storm water drains (because storm water is not treated and goes straight into the river)
It should be a good day of promotion and will hopefully enlighten a few people to be more careful in protecting their local water supply.
If you have any questions or want to come out to check out the action call Brad Dahl at 441-2312

A Success!

On April 21, Katherine and I set out to Hafford Central School to celebrate Earth Day with them a day early. We started out the day at 10 AM by setting up the ground and surface water models and projector for our presentation. Each class from grade 1 to 6 came in for a 20 minute presentation and explaination of our models. We gave away tote bags, stickers and "Water Use in Your Home" booklets. I think its safe to say not only students, but staff members also gained a bit of knowledge. The afternoon consisted of more presentations, and awards to the grade 5 winners of the Art Contest. The kids did a great job, but we could only pick 3 winners. We also brought a game of Recycle Jeopardy with us to play with the highschool students. After some moaning and groaning about how hard the questions were, and how uneven the teams were (students were put into teams based on odd and even birthdays...sounds pretty fair to me) the students finally started to get into it with team "Lemonade" winning. We also handed out some wordsearches that no team was able to complete by the time we were finished. Here we also handed out more stickers and booklets. It was a great day, both students and staff were happy, and Katherine and I were exhausted! It was well worth it and we were invited back for next year!