RIVERLINK'S FRENCH
BROAD RIVER YACHT CLUB™
INVITES YOU TO
"WALK
THE PLANK"
Join Us in Celebration of the French Broad River
with local savory fare, beer and wine and tours of Salon Blue Ridge
Architectural Components, a full service design center specializing in
luxury kitchen and bath construction and remodeling in Western North
Carolina.
Saturday,
November 1st
Fun
starts at 6pm
at Salon Blue Ridge Architectural Components
at 518 S. Allen Rd. in Flat Rock, NC
Click here for map/directions
$25/person
advance RSVP
$30/person
at the door
(accept check, cash, Visa & Mastercard)
Ticket
is food & beverage inclusive
Finger food, beer,wine & Grog featuring Henderson County apples
will be served
CLICK HERE TO RSVP & PAY
TO PURCHASE TICKETS AT $25 RATE, RSVP'S MUST BE RECEIVED
BEFORE 3PM FRIDAY OCTOBER 31.
Enter our raffle for a chance to win some lucky prizes!
Casual "yacht club" attire - pirates, wenches &
sailors welcome!
All proceeds will benefit RiverLink's efforts to revitalize
the French Broad River and its watershed.
Click
here to view photos from the 2008 Yacht Club party
Questions email volunteer@riverlink.org
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REUSE
AND RECYCLE!!! At the Blue Buildings
Everyone is welcomed to help, everyone is a
volunteer. Are you are 21 years or older, know something
about construction, are willing to sign a binding
waiver releasing us from liability and
want to help build new studios space for artists on the river with
recycled materials from an old building on the river? That is
exactly what is happening every Sunday morning starting at 10 am at 119
1/2 Riverside Drive - at what we call the "Blue
Buildings."
Local artists, Sean "Jinx" Pace and Mark Gilbreau, are
leading a team of volunteers that includes Frank Vogler of V and V Land
Management, Logan MacSporran, Greg Lucas, Hayden Wilson, Elizabeth Ewing,
Will Rodgers, Alex Greenwood, Billy Roberts, Melissa Terrezza, Kevin
Fitzpatrick, and Jolene Mechanic. Material from the "Blue
Buildings" has already been used at the Phil Mechanic Studios to
build new artist space! Sean and Marc are also working
with RiverLink and the Flood Fine Arts Center to transform
this space into a permanent sculpture garden.
MANY THANKS TO OUR CORPORATE
PARTNERS
Wyatt Waste
Containers has loaned us 4 containers to
hold whatever can't be recycled. And Volvo Construction
Equipment
North America, Inc., is lending us
a tractor to move around debris! Southern Concrete has donated a
time lapse camera which enables us to capture the renaissance of
this soon to be special place on the river!
If you want to help you should bring heavy work gloves, a shovel, a
hammer and other tools -make sure to label them so they don't get
lost. You should wear heavy boots and long sleeve shirts and pants
and a hard hat may be needed too! Think of this like an old "barn
raising" where neighbors helped neighbors and friends helped
friends!
Let us know you are coming by calling us at 828-252-8474, ext 110.
Click here to see all photos
of The Blue Buildings demolition!
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Announcing RiverLink's 2009 Calendar On Sale Now!
Kids say the darndest things! They also
write wonderful poetry and paint imaginative pictures. The
children, ages kindergarten through 12, who participated in our Art and
Poetry Contest in 2008 are the featured "artists" for
RiverLink's 2009 calendar. These are the perfect gifts, especially
when you are stumped for ideas about holiday gifts. These calendars
feature children's creative minds and they are all in our own French
Broad River watershed. These unique calendars are guaranteed to be
the perfect size and color for everyone on your holiday gift list.
Click here to preorder your copy
today!
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What is Muddy Water Watch (MWW)?
MWW is a state-wide initiative to reduce sediment runoff from
construction sites by providing training workshops and materials to help
volunteers understand erosion control violations, and how they can help
prevent our biggest polluter- sediment.
RiverLink's MWW
organizers are looking for volunteers. No previous knowledge of
erosion and sedimentation is needed, just a motivation to learn. We
are looking for people to:
-monitor construction sites and take pictures of potential violations
-document and report streams, creeks, and other waterways that are
polluted with excessive sediment
-learn how to use several data storage websites
-take photographs after heavy rainfalls
-MUCH MORE!
Next session
will be held in Hendersonville at Blue Ridge Community College
Nov 18 5:30-8:30pm
Dec 2
5:30-8:30pm
Here you will find directions, job descriptions, contact
information, workshop dates and locations, and much more.
To sign up, contact Hartwell Carson, RiverLink's French
Broad Riverkeeper at 828-252-8474 ext. 114 or email Riverkeeper@riverlink.org
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Watershed Education
Reaches over 650 Students
With Watershed Education
Programs in full swing, RiverLink taught 689 students in the first month
of the school year alone! Participating schools included Valley Springs
Middle, Evergreen Elementary, Riverbend Elementary, and Fairview.
Students learned from wide range of experiential, educational
classes including the Enviroscape model, Kids in the Creek
Macroinvertabrate study, and chemical water quality testing.
Photographs provided by Kristi Hedberg.
Click here to look at more
pictures
Valley Springs MS
8th grade
Bent
Creek
Kids
in the Creek & Enviroscape
Warren
Wilson Field Days
5th grade
Enviroscape
Riverbend Elementary
1st grade
Enviroscape
& ROVER Video
Watershed Education Volunteer
Training
October 14th, 2008
9-12pm
at
The Botanical
Gardens at Asheville
Now is the perfect time to get involved with Watershed Education and
there are many places where your energy can be used! RiverLink is
hosting a volunteer training day to help you get equipped for teaching.
We will be covering some of our most popular classes including Kids in
the Creek, Enviroscape, River of Art and Words and others. After this
training, you will be able to confidently assist or teach these classes
with RiverLink, and hopefully enjoy the Autumn weather in the process! We
will meet in the parking lot and walk to the creek from there.
Breakfast will be provided. Feel free to bring your own lunch if you'd
like to stay later, it is an excellent picnic place!
Please RSVP
to Ashley Brown, Education Coordinator at education@riverlink.org
or 828-252-8474 x111.
Click here for directions
Upcoming
Watershed Education Volunteer Opportunities
October 23 and 24, 10am-12pm
Avery Creek Elementary at Bent Creek
Lessons: Kids in the Creek, Enviroscape &
River of Words and Art
October 29, 30 & 31; 9am-1pm
Owen Middle School
Lessons:
Incredible Journey, State of the River, ROVER &
Enviroscape
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RiverLink
Volunteer River Cleanups
September River
Cleanup Tally
246 Volunteers
492 volunteer
hours
156 Bags &
70 tires
A big thank you to
all our awesome river cleanup volunteers!
Hands on Asheville Day of
Caring - Care Partners & Silver-Line Plastics
Swannanoa River - Tunnel Rd to Blue Ridge Parkway overpass
Evergreen
Adopt-A-Stream Team
Haw
Creek - Keenan Rd to Bell Rd
Ingles
Adopt-A-Stream Team
Swannanoa River - Ingles Property to US 70 Bridge
UNCA ACT Volunteer Day of Service
Glenn Creek - Broadway Ave to Merrimon Ave.
St. Mark's Church Youth Group Adopt-a-Stream Team
Glenn Creek - Weaver Park
Biltmore Lakes Association Adopt-a-Stream Team
Hominy Creek
Asheville Catholic School Adopt-a-Stream Team
Beaverdam Creek - Elk Mountain Scenic Highway to Wild Cherry Rd
Buncombe County Early College Adopt-a-Stream Team
Swannanoa River - Biltmore Ave to Glendale Ave
Kenilworth Forest Community Club Adopt-a-Stream Team
Ross Creek - Tunnel Rd to Spring Park Rd.
Upcoming River Cleanups
see Upcoming Events above
for more details
Oct
4, 9am
River
Cleanup with Mission Hospital Adopt-a-Steam Team
Oct
4, 10:30am
River Cleanup with UNCA Outdoors Program Adopt-a-Stream
Team
Oct.
11, 9am
Keep
America Beautiful Big Sweep River Cleanup with RiverLink & Quality
Forward
Oct
18
Neighborhood
Clean Your Stream Day
RiverLink Adopt-a-Stream Teams encouraged to participate
Oct 19, 1pm
River Cleanup with WNC GeoCachers Adopt-a-Stream Team
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River News
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Lewis Buck
Reception
 
Don't miss this exhibit! It is well worth
the trip to see Lewis Buck's work at WCU Fine &
Performing Art Center. Lewis' work will be on display
there until December 15th.
The collection
entitled "Lewis Buck: Beyond the Surface Life Works in Paintings and
Assemblage" traces over 60 years of his art from his time in France
where he and his artist wife Porge ran a tour business, to the coast of
Maine where they operated eco field trips to coastal ecosystems, to
Asheville where they mentored other artists and opened the Warehouse
Studios and finally to his studio in Black Mountain.
Porge and Lewis Buck, pioneers of the Asheville Riverfront Arts movement,
bought the Williams Feed and Seed Building in 1987 and turned it into the
Warehouse Studios at 170 Lyman Street. With the Buck's interest in
local history as well as river and wetlands, the warehouse became a locus
for river information as well as gathering spot for river pioneers.
Click here to view the opening
reception and some of Lewis' wonderful pieces.
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We want your input for the new Karen Cragnolin Park!
If you have some ideas about this "missing link" in the Wilma
Dykeman, click here to take the survey
and give us your suggestions too!
Click here to purchase a Deed
of Support to help us continue to make the Wilma Dykeman Riverway Plan a
reality!
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Rosman
based river cleanup nets bags of trash.
Citizen Times, September 26
DOT
Presentation on I-26 draws public scrutiny and hints of legal action
Mountain Express, September
24
Asheville's
growing populations means tapping the French Broad River.
Mountain Express, September
22
Local
input charts best path for I-26 Connector
Citizen Times,
September 21
Surveys
taken for Wilma Dykeman Riverway missing link
Citizen Times,
September 19
Project
to restore Skyland stream begins soon.
Pisgah Mountain News, Sept 18
Public
urges DOT to go smaller on planned Interstate 26 Connector
Citizen Times, September 17
Hendersonville
water restrictions on hold with talks continuing for tapping French Broad
River for future use
Blue Ridge Now, September 11
Environmental
protection makes good economic sense.
Mountain Express, September
3
RiverLink's
new Web page charts hot spots for polluted storm-water runoff
Mountain Express, September
3
French
Broad Riverkeeper says Water Conservation has to be a high priority in
WNC
Citizen Times, September 3
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RiverLink
Magazine
Check out the latest issue of
RiverLink's magazine insert in Citizen Times!
Paper copies available at RiverLink's
offices and throughout the watershed at restaurants, coffee shops, and
bookstores.
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River
Fact
Half of the water that is used in the home each day
goes to water the lawn and flush the toilet which equals more than 27
million gallons of clean treated drinking water a day.
River
Photo
River Quote
A
river is more than an amenity...It is a treasure. It offers a
necessity of life that must be rationed among those who have power over
it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Drought Update
Does the current drought have you wanting to conserve more water? If you
have questions or want to discuss how to build a rain barrel or install a
cistern, log on to the community
water harvesting. Send an email to the
moderator to join.
The French Broad River watershed is currently in an
Exceptional Drought, the most severe level.
For more on the drought visit www.ncdrought.org/
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