Alice kayaking in Iceland Alice Friedenson: Discover your passion and follow it. For Alice that means swimming, kayaking, exploring nature. Combine this passion with a lump of clay and creativity flows. Alice spends time as a volunteer in Costa Rica where she created a program with CEPIA for children to explore and create clay… Continue reading Clay Creatures: Alice Friedenson
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Date Change Due to Weather Clean up in the Shawsheen at Balmoral Park, Andover: Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 9:30 AM – 12 PM
Cleanup Sunday, August, August 30, 2020 Be prepared with watershoes/boots. Bring WATER and sun lotion. Bring gloves if you have them. Pizza served around 11:30. To see SRWA in the Andover Townsman click here. To see SRWA in the Eagle Tribune click here. This is a public event hosted by Laurie… Continue reading Date Change Due to Weather Clean up in the Shawsheen at Balmoral Park, Andover: Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 9:30 AM – 12 PM
Recycled Treasures: Sharon Lapham
Sharon with her Solstice Flag Sharon Lapham: Art from Recycling Treasures Found in the Shawsheen River The pieces I create from river refuse give new, often humorous, purpose to items and functions that once were useful. Posing the questions: When in our history were they a common, even a necessary, part of our daily… Continue reading Recycled Treasures: Sharon Lapham
Clean Up at Sacred Heart Reservation: 7/17/2020
Peggy, an andover resident recently emailed SRWA: “I was hoping you might remove a tire that is clearly exposed where the river flows between the upper and lower (the oval) soccer fields … by the recently named Sacred Hearts reservation. I live on Arundel Street and walk there all the time and I’m so tired… Continue reading Clean Up at Sacred Heart Reservation: 7/17/2020
Important Update! PUT IN #18 Abbot Bridge Drive, Andover, Marlies Paddles with SRWA: Saturday, 8/15/2020, 9:30
Ahoy Paddlers! Tomorrow MarliesPaddles aka Boat Beautiful Billerica travels the meandering Shawsheen River in Andover. For the 5th of seven planned 2020 SRWA paddles, the current is low, so we need not shuttle cars; the paddle starts and ends at the same access point. If you receive this email (blind cc’d), you have confirmed… Continue reading Important Update! PUT IN #18 Abbot Bridge Drive, Andover, Marlies Paddles with SRWA: Saturday, 8/15/2020, 9:30
July 12, 2020 Paddle from Knights of Columbus to Ballardvale Dam
It was a beautiful summer afternoon to paddle the Shawsheen in Tewksbury and Andover. SRWA kayakers were led by Marlise and saved by Brian in pebbly areas with water levels as low as 1 inch. We enjoyed a heron, geese, turtles, and flowers.
6/8/2020 A Beautiful Day on the Sudbury River
Follow a swan … Explore new boundaries … Picnic … Paddle … Laurie and Alice
6/26/2020 Collaboration is the Key to a Navigable River
Great collaboration between the Shawsheen Greenway and the Shawsheen River Watershed Association to make the passage in low water at KOC navigable.
6/27/2020 Sheridan St./Lapham Launch Clean-Up
People from many towns along the Shawsheen River came together as a team to clean up the future site of the Lapham Launch off of Sheridan Street in Billerica. What anaccomplishment! Mo
Next Marlies Paddles Shawsheen with SRWA: Saturday, July 11: 9:30am – 1pm
Save the date! Pending the further lifting of covid-19 state of emergency restrictions, the SRWA plans to paddle the Shawsheen River two hours downstream. Each month a different section. Next: Start at Knights of Columbus, 2068 Main Street, Tewksbury to Andover – BYOBoat, park the cars at Balardvale Dam and shuttle back to the the… Continue reading Next Marlies Paddles Shawsheen with SRWA: Saturday, July 11: 9:30am – 1pm