The remarkable beaver-guardians of Worth A Dam gathered last night to finesse plans for Earth day and our tree planting project. Our intrepid potential eagle scout was there boldly getting ready to go before the council to offer our tree-installation plans. It was a lively meeting, but one of my favorite parts was our brainstorming session about the art project we might offer at earthday.
Artist and teacher Frogard Butler has been helping us with these activities since she generously volunteered to paint a portrait of one of my beaver photographs and gave it to me in support. We decided that since clay was such a huge hit at the beaver festival, we would try it again, inviting children to help us build a diorama representation of the beaver habitat in miniature. Jon volunteered to make the landscape/box that could get us started, and of course we’ll be putting dams and lodges and tiny peices of sheetpile.
I can’t wait.
Beaver people are good people. We signed our 2009 executive agreement, with two additions who will become official worth a dam-ers. Lory will record donations, and Linda will track down research questions. Hard to believe only a year has passed since Worth A Dam was formed. In that time we’ve given presentations to the Elementary and High schools, Audubon, Sierra Club,and all of downtown Martinez. We’ve held a festival, applied for a grant, and expanded our web page. We even found time to work over 20 farmer’s markets and take the city to court. During our first year we raised more than 7,000 in donations.
Not bad for 365 days work.
Maybe all this talk of our accomplishments has inspired you to offer your own. We’re looking for a new tee shirt design for 2009 and would love to encourage you to fiddle with the concept. We want our name and web site address on it, but other than this we are open to suggestions. Why not try your hand at graphic beaver design and give us a couple ideas. If we love your design will make it into 100 shirts this year, and we’ll give you yours for free!
