Fall is a very busy time of the year here at Rockfall. Award nominations and grant applications are open. We have a great series of events, including our Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony in November, and our first annual Holiday Party in December.
And coming up this month, we'll have Meet Your Greens in the rooftop garden of the Community Health Center with special guest Jane Harris; our first Repair Cafe at the Middletown Senior Center, and a river cleanup volunteer opportunity at the end of the month. Hope you can join us!
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Grant Informational Workshop on 9/12
The informational workshop to learn about our 2019 Competitive Environmental Grant Program is scheduled for September 12th at 5pm at the deKoven House Community Center (27 Washington Street in Middletown). Bring your questions! No RSVP required.
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Join us for Middletown's first Repair Cafe! Bring your broken phones, busted lamps, ripped pants, dull knives, bicycles, jewelry, and small appliances to our repair cafe. Skilled volunteers will help fix and teach you how to fix your things--saving you money and keeping items working and out of incinerators and landfills.
Tool use and help is free. Participants cover spare part costs or bring their own. Special thanks to Perk on Main for providing coffee and snacks! And to our many volunteer experts for giving their time to help with repairs, including Off the Hook Cell Phone & Tablet Repair. More information here.
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Next Meet Your Greens: September 20th
This month, join us in the rooftop garden of the Community Health Center for drinks and a conversation with gardening expert Jane Harris of the Middletown Garden Club. Beer and wine will be provided.
Also, save the date for upcoming Meet Your Greens: 10/18, 11/15, and 12/13:
- On October 18th, Judy Preston, the Long Island Sound Outreach Coordinator at Connecticut Sea Grant will be discussing the health and well-being of the Sound at the Penny Lane Pub in Old Saybrook.
- On November 15th, Jen Kleindienst, Wesleyan's Sustainability Coordinator, will be discussing campus sustainability efforts.
- And on December 13th, Rockfall will have its first Holiday Party! Free for Rockfall members.
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For those of you not familiar with Meet Your Greens: Middletown Green Drinks, this monthly event provides networking opportunities for anyone who is interested in making connections and exchanging news about emerging environmental issues to help keep Lower Connecticut River Valley communities green and growing. An official location of Green Drinks International, this informal monthly gathering of people drawn from the community, nonprofit groups and the business world offers time to brainstorm ideas and plant seeds for collaboration. All are welcome and there is no admission fee, unless otherwise noted. For more information, please visit our website.
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Hear how Commodore Macdonough Elementary School is applying The Rockfall Foundation's grant the school received this year to get students out into nature, and how the school's curriculum is being updated to include more about the environment.
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Cleanup at Haddam Meadows 9/29
On Saturday, September 29th, we'll be joining Brainerd Memorial Library and Adopt A Park volunteers to help clean up Had
dam Meadows State Park as part of the Connecticut River
Conservancy's Source to Sea annual Connecticut River Cleanup.
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