BALTIMORE CITY & HARFORD COUNTY STREAMS WILL BENEFIT FROM STREAM SCHOOL
funded by SOS, DNR, with the help of the City of Havre de Grace, and a generous grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust

Local streams from across Baltimore City and Harford County will benefit from the knowledge gained from the latest season of Save Our Stream's Stream School Students: Restoring Our Streams, Organizing Citizens and Empowering them to strengthen and make changes in their communities. Held on Thursday, October 18, and Saturday, October 19 at Northern High School in Baltimore City,and  Thursday September 24, and Saturday, September 26 at the Council Chambers in Havre de Grace. This FREE courses were open to group and community leaders of the surrounding neighborhoods. Some of the people that attended these informative and hands on workshops designed to help restore Maryland's waterways by teaching the skills of organizational technique, stream ecology, tree planting, aquatic insect collection team work and community organizing were local citizens, community leaders, students, teachers, and watershed Association leaders and members. All of whom want to make a difference in their communities. These citizens will now go back and organize activities within the watershed and communities where they work, live, or play.  These two sessions of stream school followed previous triumphs in Baltimore, Anne Arundel and Carroll County.

Portions of the Baltimore City Stream School classes were filmed for a Maryland Public Television to air in January.

Watch here for more information about these upcoming Stream School Workshops!

THE JONES FALLS FESTIVAL IS THE FIRST OF IT'S KIND

Starting on Saturday, September 19 through Sunday, September 20, 1998, The Jones Falls Watershed Association in partnership with Save Our Streams and other non-profit organizations conducted a type of festival which was the first of it's kind in Baltimore.  The Organizers of this event provided recreational opportunities which spanned from listening to great Caribbean music underneath the bridge at Wyman Park to canoeing down the Jones Falls to riding bicycles down the Jones Falls Expressway. At last estimate there were approximately 2,500 participants throughout the weekend. The goal was to expose the beauty and possibilities of this wonderful waterway to the greater community.  Michael Beer, a past Stream Award recipient and Sandy Sparks co-chaired this outstanding event. Through their vision along with the professional staff from Save Our Streams and the staff from the Baltimore City Department of Public Works coordinated a canoe and kayak opportunity down the Jones Falls. This event was on Sunday September 20, starting from the Robert E. Lee park in Mt. Washington. Over 200 boaters participated in this first of it's kind event. We would like to extend a sincere and warm thank you to all who participated in the canoeing event, as well as the weekend as a whole. Stay tuned for more information about next years festival!

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SUCCESS STORIES
Save Our Streams is dedicated to educating citizen volunteers and community organizations to clean, monitor and protect our waterways. The work of the organizations and citizens we list here exemplifies the mission of Save Our Streams and they were therefore among those chosen as nominations of the Stream Action Awards, presented in Fall 1999

(Nominations are now being taken. If there is a person, or group you feel is deserving of this award, please submit your nomination in writing to Karen Blake c/o Save Our Streams, 8074 New Cut Rd., Severn, MD 21144. Deadline for submissions is September 31, 1999)

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