May 17, 2012 – Third Thursday Brown Bag Lecture – Rex Linville, Piedmont Environmental Council. Subject: Land Easements, How they work and how they can benefit you and the environment. Monthly from Noon to 1pm. Jefferson-Madison Regional Library 201 East Market Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902. For more information call 434 97 RIVER or email rcs@rivannariver.org.
June 2, 2012 – 9am – noon. Clean The Bay Day at sites along the Rivanna River ending at Riverview Park. Cleanup partners include RCS, The Nature Conservancy, VA Master Naturalists, Blue Ridge Mountain Sports and Dixon Disposal. For more information contact rcs@rivannariver.org and to register log on to www.cbf.org/clean
June 23, 2012- 10am – noon. Flexing Our Mussels – Freshwater Mussel Festival at Riverview Park.
RCS, VA Dept. of Conservation and Recreation and the US Fish and Wildlife Service (plus many more partners) are hosting this event to help return more mussels to the Rivanna River and to teach participants about how these mussels joint to their fist “hosts” and how they help clean our waterways. We also expect to see (through instream scopes) the endangered Spiney Mussel. For more information email rcs@rivannariver.org.
June 30, 2012 – 7am – noon. RCS Rain Barrel Sale at the City Market (1st and Water Street, Charlottesville). $115 Barrels will be on sale for $95. And, $30 of Your Purchase is TAX DEDUCTIBLE…Plus a SPECIAL $30 REBATE For City of Charlottesville Residents & Albemarle Service Authority Customers! Please reserve your Rain Barrel in advance under the EVENTS tab at: www.RainBarrelsIntl.com. Payment due upon delivery, with checks being payable to: RCS.
