After focusing on cleaning up the wetlands around various Norfolk Creeks for three consecutive Clean the Bay Days', Wetlands Watch teamed up with Hoffler Creek Wildlife Refuge in Portsmouth to police the marsh just outside their gates along Twin Pines Road.
Our six volunteers included three artists from Old Dominion University who scoured the items collected to create art objects. Rosa Doughty, David Johnson, and Rob Wetherington returned to their studios to transform the collected debris into retablos, photographs, and ceramics which will be on display at Relative Theory Records Gallery in late August, 2004.
Board member Suzie Carroll and her husband, Chris, had the onerous task to donning hip-waders and slogging through the sloughs to pull out dozens of bottles, balls and a vast array of lumber that had arrived on the tide.
Together the group collected between 250 - 300 lbs of debris.
If you participate in Clean the Bay day and would like to join us next year, or have suggestions of cleanup locations, email John Blandin with details