2014 Events, Workshops & Outreach
January
11 - Da Vinci Fest (Stillwater) – send volunteer
15 – Pine Ridge Garden Club (Cottage Grove) - Jenn
February
March
4 - Blue Thumb workshop (Oakdale)
11 - Blue Thumb workshop (Woodbury)
13 - EMWREP meeting
15 - AIS Workshop
29 – Woodbury Landscape Workshop with
Master Gardeners
29 – St. Ambrose Church event
Forest Lake Home Show – send materials
WCD newsletter
April
1 - Stormwater U – Innovation in BMPs
7 - Blue Thumb workshop (Stillwater - Lily)
8 - St. Croix Basin Conference
Mahtomedi Rite of Spring – send volunteer or materials
22 – Earth Day activity with kids near Bailey School
24, 29 Blue Thumb workshops (Bayport - Perro)
25, 26 – Tree handout
* 2015 County paper shredding event and rain barrel sale
May
1 - Blue Thumb workshop (Bayport – pt 3)
5 – Warner Nature Center Volunteer Training (May Twp.)
6 - Shoreline workshop (Forest Lake)
14 – MECA workshop (Cottage Grove)
14 - Horse Workshop
17 - Bayport – Julie Grecian Party
31 - RWMWD WaterFest
OH Anderson Field Day (Mahtomedi)
Water Testing outreach
Woodbury lawn care door hangers
*2015 MN Outdoor Youth Expo – recruit volunteer help, debut geocaching
MSCWMO 10-yr plan update meeting
Powers Lake – George Weyer Party
Lake Edith Neighborhood party
June
7 - Explore Your Parks Day (Lake Elmo Regional Park) – geocaching info (11am-2pm)
7 - Landscape Revival (Roseville) – send materials
8 - Master Gardener Plant Sale (Lake Elmo) – send materials
Scandia – Pam Arnold Cover Crop workshop
Belwin Bison Release
Shoreline neighborhood event (Comfort Lake)
19-20 MAWD Summer Tour
* 2015 Raingarden maintenance - Colby and Lily/McKusick neighborhoods
July
12-13 - St. Croix Valley Garden Tour – recruit volunteer help
15 - St. Croix River Workshop
Tamarack Tour (Woodbury)– Jed
Cottage Grove Safety Camp
Silver Lake Splash
School Section, Plaisted, Goggins event
30 – Aug. 3 – Washington County Fair
August
7 - Big Backyard workshop – Lake Elmo
LSCB Heritage Day – send volunteer or materials
Tri-Lakes Day – ask about best way for VBWD to be involved
Church project tour
21 – Sept. 1 – MN State Fair
* 2015 Ice cream social – Neal Ave. & Brown’s Creek Trail, Stillwater
September
Scandia Taco Daze – send materials (attend in 2015)
Lake Elmo Days– parade (send materials in 2015)
Clean Water Summit
Children’s Water Festival
Aquatic plant management workshop
* 2015 Cottage Grove Public Works Open House
October
Buckthorn Workshop (Grant – Wildwood Elementary)
Woodland ecology / buckthorn workshop (Warner NC)
Winter maintenance workshop?
November
Stormwater U – Roads and Streets & MIDS Credit Calculator
EMWREP meeting
WCD newsletter
December
Watershed-Specific Projects
- CLFLWD
- Shoreline workshop for homeowners on south side of Forest Lake
- Shoreline workshop / neighborhood party with homeowners on Comfort Lake
- CMSCWD
- Follow-up for Hay, Sand & Long Lakes
- Marine Green Streets*
- Camp Kiwanis project
- CIP survey (2015)
- BCWD
- Outreach for Croixwood neighborhood stormwater retrofits*
- Workshop / neighborhood party for School Section, Lake Plaisted and Googins Lake
- 10-yr plan update (2015)
- MSCWMO
- 10-yr plan update
- Lily Lake Workshop - focusing on raingardens and native plantings (3hrs)
- Perro Creek Workshop - focusing on native plantings and stream projects(3hrs)
- SWWD
- Outreach to businesses identified insubwatershed studies
- VBWD
- Outreach for Demontreville neighborhood stormwater retrofits*
- Aquatic plant management workshop for lake associations
- RWMWD
- Outreach for Casey Lake neighborhood raingardens
- Explore opportunities near Tanners and Carver Lakes
- Support for Green Churches projects
*Dependent on BWSR grant funding