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June 2016 Clean the Bay Day Event

Want to participate in this year’s annual Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Clean the Bay Day event scheduled for June 4th, 2016?  If so, you may want to  register soon since registrations at some locations are already starting to fill up!

Suffolk residents can register by contacting Wayne Jones, Litter Control Co-Ordinator City … Read more

April 2016 Issue of the Blue Heron Times Newsletter

Prior year issues of our monthly Chapter newsletter are available for download from the S-N IWLA Blue Heron Times newsletter archives.

As a convenience, if you wish to receive our monthly newsletters on a continuing basis, please consider adding your email address to our monthly email Newsletter distribution list, using the handy  Read more

2016 Scholarship Fund Raffle Fundraiser

Notice:  The RAFFLE EVENT for 2016 is CLOSED as of the July 2016 Chapter dinner meeting where five winning tickets were drawn.  All net proceeds were deposited into the Chapter’s Scholarship Fund.

The winning ticket holders are listed below:

  • 1st prize winner – Jack Connolly
  • 2nd prize winner – Johnathan Echols
  • Read more

March 2016 Adopt-A-Road Cleanup

This past March 16th, 23  (twenty-three) Chapter Members showed their support by arriving 2 hours early on dinner meeting night and collecting trash from the roadside ditches alongside Kings Fork Road, an event that we schedule twice each year.

Gary Brown, Chapter Board member, contacted Wayne Jones, Litter Coordinator for City of Suffolk, to … Read more

New Chapter Member, March 2016

Our most recent new Chapter Member, Donald Fair, transferred to our Chapter from the Alexandria Chapter and was sworn in at the March dinner meeting.  Donald not only is one lucky guy, he is a nice guy as well, for after winning the 50-50 raffle, he donated his winnings back to our … Read more

March 2016 Guest Speaker

Our guest speakers at the Chapter Members dinner meeting on March 16th were Geoff Payne, President and Lynn Wehner, Vice President of the Southside Chapter of Virginia Master Naturalist.  Note that Geoff retired from Allied Chemical and has been Treasurer of the Suffolk Youth Association for the past 26 years. Also, … Read more