Fundraising at BRIO Tuscan Grill at the Perimeter

BRIO Tuscan Grill in Dunwoody partnered with us to hold a Bocce Ball / Snooker Ball Fundraiser.  It was awesome sitting outside listening to the the live music of Wild Iris Rose.

Snookerball is a pool game but we played it soccer style.

Warren B&G Club Helping With Stream Monitoring

On March 12, youth and staff from the Warren-Holyfield Boys and Girls Club helped the Sierra Club volunteers who conduct periodic analysis of the chemical and biological status of the South Fork of Peachtree Creek (near Medlock Park in Decatur) as part of Georgia Adopt-A-Stream.  They helped measure the water chemistry and looked for macroinvertebrates living in the creek.  The finds included fresh-water clams and a large crayfish.  The Sierra Club survey team gave excellent explanations of how stream monitoring works, and recorded the findings for posting on the Adopt-A-Stream web site (http://georgiaadoptastream.com/db/Default.asp).

Warren Boys & Girls Club Trip to Sweetwater Creek State Park

Atlanta ICO volunteers and youth from the Club visited Sweetwater Creek State Park on a beautiful sunny Saturday.  An ICO Leader gave a tour of the Interpretive Center to explain why it has the highest possible rating as an environmentally responsible building with solar panels, “green” architecture, and recycled waste.  We hiked the wooded trail to the mill ruins, observing the leaves of the American Beech and other signs of winter along the way.  After lunch, the group took the Yellow trail that crosses the creek, ascends a steep ridge, then returns via the bottomlands paralleling the creek.  Despite the strenuousness of the trail, the youth set a lively pace that finished the hike early, leaving more time to look at the interesting displays in the Interpretive Center.