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Ban the Bag campaign: Volunteers needed!

Plastic Campaign Web Mail Manager Needed! This technologically savy individual is needed to help merge all of our petition signers into a cooler email account so we can message to them and coalition groups. Please contact Charlie at cplybon@surfrider.org

Mark Your Calendars for Foam Fest June 27

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Local brews, hoola contest, live band and dance off, raffle prizes will bring the best in fun and humiliation out in all of us for the first annual Siuslaw Chapter Foam Fest. The event is scheduled for June 27th at the Bay Street Grille in Old Town Florence from 8:30 pm til midnight. The event is to help raise funds for the chapter’s Blue Water Task Force and first ever Siuslaw River Cleanup, to be held on July 18th! Come join the fun, learn how you can get more involved! Special thanks to our sponsors at Bay Street Grille, Wakond Brewery and Ninkasi Brewing...many more sponsors to come…hope to see you there! Want to help organize and volunteer? Contact Britany at: getzbee22@gmail.com

Protecting Special Places

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Last week the Lane County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to pass a resolution supporting the Heceta Head-Cape Perpetua area to move forward for further evaluation and consideration as a potential marine reserve. This evaluation would occur over the next two years and would consist of further collection of biological information, socio-economic analysis, and on-going community collaboration. The resolution also supported the advancement of nearshore science, adequate funding for implementation, and the formation of a marine resource committee comprised of community members and ocean users. This resolution was passed with the input and support of the Port of Siuslaw, and the involvement of the Siuslaw Chapter thru their testimony at hearings and written letters to County Commissioners. Next time you see one of the Lane County Commissioners, tell them thank you for investing in the long term health of our nearshore waters, fisheries, and our communities. To read some recent press on the resolution, click here. To read the actual resolution, click on the link below.

Lane Co Resolution.doc

Clean your Beach and Feel the Positive Vibrations!

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Siuslaw Chapter and Florence citizens, its time to get your cleanup groove on! Your beach doesn’t clean itself, so show a little respect and have a little fun with the Siuslaw chapter volunteers at the South Jetty, starting at Parking lot #1, this Saturday, March 28th from 10:00am-1:00pm. SOLV’s specatacular statewide beach cleanup event only happens twice a year, so carpe diem my beach loving friends and get involved! Additionally, Newport and Portland Chapters are taking the lead on zones 2 and 7 for event happening up and down the entire Oregon Coast! Additionally zone captain chapters are helping sponsor the event giving away 500 reusable bags for volunteers participating in Surfrider captained beach cleanup zones. Other chapters and Surfrider members are pitching in by captaining 8 different beaches from Clatsop to Curry Counties! Come out and pitch in to help keep Oregon’s beaches the cleanest! www.solv.org/programs/beach_cleanup_zone.asp

Water testing is underway

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The Siuslaw Chapter has started collecting water samples for testing at the South jetty, North jetty, the Siuslaw river and, the Heceta beach drainage near Driftwood shores. Larry Brammer designed and built the device that attaches to a fishing pole to hold the water sample bottles when collecting water from the ocean, good job Larry. We have the samples tested at the Siuslaw Watershed Council Lab in Mapleton. This all takes place the 3rd tuesday of every month, and soon we’ll be posting the results.

Adopt a Hwy, Siuslaw Chapter Surfrider Foundation signs are up.

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March 13th 2009, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) installed our Adopt a Hwy, Siuslaw Chapter Surfrider Foundation signs @ mp. 176 Washburn State Park entrance and mp. 174 Ocean Beach Wayside Park on Hwy 101 between Florence and Yachats. This marks the beginning of our partnership with ODOT to keep this 2-mile stretch of the Oregon Coast State Hwy clean, and to help raise people’s awareness that trash on the Hwy ends up up on the beach and eventually into the ocean.

Ocean Issues Community Forum

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The Siuslaw Watershed Council will be holding a Community Forum on Ocean Issues Wednesday, March 25th at 6pm in the Florence Events Center. This informational event will include an update on the Oregon Marine Reserve process, overview of the West Coast Governors Agreement on Ocean Health, and presentations of various perspectives on Alternative Ocean Energy. Following the presentations there will be a panel discussion including all of the speakers, questions will be taken from the audience via notecards. This event is supported by a generous contribution from the Siuslaw Chapter of Surfrider Foundation. Please mark your calendars, tell your friends, and plan on attending this important event. For more information, see the link below. To volunteer at the event by helping with informational tabling, contact Volunteer Coordinator Jon Tipple at jonandjaine@bmi.net
SWC_Ocean Issues Community Forum.doc

Protecting Special Places…Keeping the Ocean, Waves & Beaches Clean

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The Siuslaw Chapter has officially adopted a 2 mile stretch of scenic coastal Highway 101 along one of the most beautiful stretches in Oregon from Washburn State Park to Ocean Beach Wayside between the communities of Florence and Yachats. This adoption is part of the Chapters efforts to foster the spirit of stewardship, raise awareness, and educate the general public about the problems that plastics and styrofoam create in the marine environment. Volunteers turned out in full force on an amazing day sponsored by the month of January and were able to collect over 20 bags of trash that would have otherwise ended up on the beach and in the ocean. Thank you to all that participated, and big ups to Richard for leading the charge! To get involved with the Chapter, attend the regular monthly meetings held on the 2nd Friday of the month @ 6pm in the Wakonda Brewery Tasting Room on Kingwood, or contact Volunteer Coordinator Jon Tipple at jonandjaine@bmi.net

To learn more about the plague of plastics in the ocean and what you can do to be part of the solution, visit Surfrider Foundations Rise Above Plastics Website: http://www.riseaboveplastics.org/

The Siuslaw Chapter web page is up and running

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Stay tuned for more.

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