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Westport River
Watershed Alliance to host third Electronics Recycling Day!
Westport
Cultural Council Grants Available.
Monarch Programs at Allens Pond Wildlife
Sanctuary.
Westport
Harvest Festival is back for its sixth annual season.
Using Light
Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to study Westport’s historic landscape.
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Westport River
Watershed Alliance to host third Electronics Recycling Day! EverythingWestport.com Saturday,
September 19, 2015 Westport, Massachusetts
– Due to overwhelming demand, a third Electronics Recycling Day is scheduled
for Wednesday, September 23rd, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. This is an ideal way to
thoughtfully dispose of old cell phones, computers, TV’s and appliances. WRWA will once again be partnering with IndieCycle
to host the Electronics Recycling drop-off event at their Main Road
headquarters. The previous two
recycling days in 2015 brought in over 12,000 pounds of recyclable electronic
materials, which illustrates the Photo | EverythingWestport.com Items accepted at
no charge: computers, laptops,
tablets, cell phones, mice and keyboards, printers, toner cartridges, CD/DVD
players, radios, network equipment, wires, stereos, speakers, telephones, VHS
tapes, microwaves, small household appliances and batteries of any size or
type. $10 disposal fee: all TV’s and monitors,
mini-fridges, air conditioners, dehumidifiers and any other appliances
containing chemical coolants. Items not
accepted are: light bulbs, furniture, or any hazardous materials like paint,
household chemicals, and broken TV tubes. This recycling
event will take place courtesy of Indie Cycle, LLC, a Rhode Island-based
company dedicated to recycling, with “zero landfill and zero tax
dollars.” They do not remarket any
hard drives or data storage devices.
All electronic devices are transferred to ORS, a local R2 certified
recycler, for processing. For more
information about Indie Cycle, visit their web page at www.indiecycle.com. The Westport
River Watershed Alliance is located at 1151 Main Road, Westport. For more
information, contact Steve Connors, WRWA Community Engagement Manager, at
508.636.3016, or by email at outreach@wrwa.com. Westport
Cultural Council Grants Available. EverythingWestport.com Sunday, September
20, 2015
If you are a
local artist, teacher, or non-profit organization requiring funds for a
community-oriented project that directly involves the arts, interpretive
sciences, or humanities, they invite you to apply for a Local Cultural
Council grant through WCC. Grant
applications, as well as funding guidelines, are available on-line through
WCC’s website.
Printed applications may also be obtained at Westport Town Hall and the
Westport Free Public Library. The grant application period runs through
October 15, 2015. Grant funding decisions will be finalized by November
15, 2015. Funds allocated
to WCC by the Massachusetts Cultural Council are for projects or activities
that take place in the South Coast area, promote local creative talent or
cultural resources, and benefit residents across Westport’s many communities. Please submit ten
copies of completed applications to the WCC by mail or hand delivered.
Mailed applications must be postmarked on or before October 15, 2015.
Mail applications to Westport Cultural Council, P.O. Box 4089, Westport, MA
02790. Hand delivered
applications may be brought to either Westport Town Hall or the Westport Free
Public Library before 5:00 p.m. on October 15, 2015. Questions
regarding the application process may be emailed to Irene Buck at irenebuck@earthlink.net. Please visit their
website
for the LCC grant application and guidelines, and lists of past grant
recipients. While you’re online, please like them on Facebook for updates about upcoming WCC supported
events. www.westportculturalcouncil.org Monarch
Programs at Allens Pond Wildlife
Sanctuary. EverythingWestport.com Sunday, September
20, 2015 Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary is
hosting Monarch programming this fall. Timed for peak weekends for
Monarch butterfly migration, a Monarch Tagging Station will be set up
at the Allens Pond field station from 10:00 a.m.
until 2:00 p.m., weather dependent, on the weekends of September 26 and
27, and October 3 and 4.
The Monarch
Tagging Station is free and is supported in part by a grant from the Dartmouth
Local Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the
Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Submitted photo Afterschool Insect Discovery & Monarch
Tagging will occur on Thursday,
September 24, Monday September 28, and Wednesday, September 30; all dates from
3:30 -5:00 p.m. Join them after school
to look for butterflies and other insects with an entomologist. Learn
more about the monarch butterfly and, if the weather agrees, how to catch and
tag them as they make their way along the migratory route to Mexico. Registration is
required, and cost is $6 for members and $8 for non-members for the
afterschool programming. Mature high school
students who are looking to gain volunteer service hours are encouraged to
contact Allens Pond for more information on how to
assist with these programs. Please call Allens
Pond at 508.636.2437 or e-mail allenspond@massaudubon.org
for more information. Westport
Harvest Festival is back for its sixth annual season. EverythingWestport.com Sunday, September
20, 2015 Photos | EverythingWestport.com Food, bluegrass
music, farm animals, a one-day farmers’ market and more will be among the
offerings when the Trustees of Reservations hosts its seventh annual Harvest
Festival on Saturday, October 3rd, from noon to 4 p.m. This is the “last
chance” to purchase fresh vegetables from local farmers at the farmers market
this season. Admission is $5 for adults and free for children. Stop by the Westport Farmers'
Market at Westport Town Farm on Saturday,
October 3rd from 8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. in its final
market of the year! Rain or shine. . Farmers expected
to attend include Skinny Dip Farm, Paradise Hill Farm, The Hidden Garden, Quonsett Farm, Peets Farm,
Noquochoke Orchards, Silk Tree Farm, Sweet Tree Naturals, and the Trustees of
Reservations. Hand-made baskets, jewelry and other crafts will also be
featured.
Local favorite
Hana’s Honey will be on display – with bees! – along
with members of the Beekeepers Association. Catering will be
provided by the Westporter! Antique farm
implements will be on display, along with demonstrations on old barn
construction and apple cider pressing.
This year’s music
will be provided by Four
Bridges, a bluegrass band. This group features well-known musicians
Jeremy Place-mandolin, guitar, vocals; Benjamin Marshall-banjo, guitar,
mandolin, fiddle, vocals & bass; Russ Hermansen-bass,
guitar; and Greg Ferreira-mandolin, guitar, banjo, harmonica, vocals. The Westport Town
Farm, known for generations as the “Poor Farm,” is the home for offices of
the Westport Land Conservation Trust, and the Trustees of Reservations
Southeast Region. The property is open to the public from dawn to dusk for
hiking, bird-watching and other passive recreation. Westport Town
Farm is located at 830 Drift Road; parking is available across the street.
EverthingWestport.com Sunday, September
20, 2015
Little Compton
resident and PhD candidate Katharine Johnson will present her research that
uses a remote sensing technology called Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
to understand the history of Westport’s landscape. This laser
scanning device is attached to an aircraft, and has the ability to map the
ground surface that is usually obscured in aerial photographs by New
England's dense forest canopy. This has led to discoveries of landscape
features such as stone walls, building foundations, roads, and other features
now in areas that are completely forested, but that were not in the past.
Above: A hill-shaded
digital elevation model derived from LiDAR (bottom photo) depicts stone
walls, building foundations, and an old road that are not visible in high
resolution modern aerial photographs due to farm abandonment and forest
regrowth (top photo.) The technology makes
it possible to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the development and
history of the landscape that might not otherwise have been possible. Three different
LiDAR datasets have been collected for Westport in the years 2006, 2011, and
following Hurricane Sandy in 2013 and 2014. This talk will examine the
history of the landscape in this area, and provide insight into local areas
of interest using LiDAR data. Suggested
donation $5. Co-sponsored by the Westport Land Conservation Trust. For information
contact Westport Historical Society at 508.636.6011. © 2015 Community Events of Westport. All rights
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