Conference and Exposition will Focus on Water Improvement and Conservation
The Florida Federation of Garden Clubs District III Clubs have organized the Big Bend Regional Water
Conference and Exposition for January 25, 2007. The Conference will be
from 8:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. at the Tallahassee/Leon County Civic Center
in Tallahassee, Florida. The conference is a joint effort of the
Garden Clubs from Franklin, Wakulla, Leon, Jefferson, Madison, Suwannee
and Taylor Counties.
Speakers for the event will include Jerry Scarborough, Director, Suwannee River Water Management
District; Sean McGlynn, Ochlockonee Soil & Water Conservation
District; Melissa Charbonneau, Big Bend Sea Grass Aquatic
Preserve; Eberhard Roeder, Bureau of Onsite Sewage Programs, Florida
Department of Health, Barbara Larson, University of Florida, State Coordinator of Florida Yards and Neighbors Program, and a
Panel Discussion moderated by Jim Stevenson, Coordinator, Wakulla Springs Basin Working Group.
Organizers
are seeking sponsors and exhibitors who are interested in improving and
conserving the water quality in the Big Bend Region, including the gulf
beaches, springs and any river or waterways. This focus of the
conference is to educate homeowners, businesses and other interested
parties about ways they can affect and preserve the quality of our
water resources, and to offer resource information about conservation
practices and products that can help.
If you are willing to
help sponsor the Big Bend Regional Water Conference as a vendor,
exhibitor or sponsor; please click here to download the vendor/sponsor form, complete it and return it
to the address on the bottom. For questions or more information,
contact District III Director, Lynette Pichard (850) 224-6863 (email
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), or Conference Chairman, Joy Hevey (850)
668-8353 (email
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).
This article originally published on January 5, 2007.
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