BIG, BIG THANK YOU!!

The nest cleaning committee would sincerely like to thank our new volunteers, Helena Hemming, Paul Carney and Ken Hodgson for helping us maintain and stake our Owl burrows and Gopher nests.  We certainly appreciate your help.  We hope you have a great summer up north and look forward to seeing all of you in the Fall.

To all our regular volunteers, Carl Eason, Jose Rodriguez, Catherine Hughes, Ruth Parks, Susan Porreca, Pascha and Ed Donaldson and Mary McCaffrey, it's going to be a long hot summer, so get ready! 

 

Thanks to Some of our Major
Sponsors for the 6th annual Burrowing Owl Festival.

                                                                 

 Thanks to CCFW participants: Ruth and Carey Parks, Jeanette and Steve Chupack, Pascha and Ed Donaldson, Sal Mellon, Carl Eason and Deborah Noonan, Barbara Rumpolt, Carver Koala, Joanne Gonzalez, Kyle, Elfie, Lindsey, and Josh Sweet, Amy Dodge, Arlyne Salcedo and Charlie Ewell Jr.   

Thanks to the nearly twenty members and friends of CCFW  who participated in the First Annual Canal Clean-up Day in south Cape Coral on Sunday, March 30th! About 90 people participated in the event and over a ton of debris was removed from the Cape’s waterways!  A CCFW group met  near Bimini Canal and cleaned that area by kayak and zodiac. CCFW members and others without boats carpooled to Bernice Braden Park and cleaned the area near the Cape Coral Bridge. Glass and plastic were the most common items found on Sunday, especially plastic bags in the mangroves, wood debris, tires, plastic chairs, Styrofoam, and our group even retrieved a barnacle encrusted plastic chair by kayak and a hula hoop!   Several of you remove trash from your own canal, and that’s another great action to take. The  City’s Services Division runs a program called Adopt-a-Canal; they will provide you with a blue barrel to put this trash in, and they’ll pick it up. Call 574-0748 for more information on this program. 
 Boaters brought trash back to the boat ramp, where Waste Management had placed a dumpster, then had lunch (donated by Wingnuts) in the pavilion of the Yacht Club.
 Kayak outfitted for garbage retrieval