Surfrider Foundation - CT Chapter
Announcements
If you travel abroad to surf your favorite spots, you should think about signing the "Stop Discriminatory Airline Surfboard Baggage Fees!" petition! The Surfrider Connecticut Chapter thinks this is an important cause, and we would like to encourage you to add your signature, too. It's free and takes less than a minute of your time.
Summer 2009: Sacred Heart University needs your help with Project Limulus, a study examining the ecology of the Long Island Sound Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) population. For more information, read the flyer or go directly to the Sacred Heart University website.
If you recently received a cigarette butt holder that was handed out by Chapter volunteers and lost your pamphlet, you can download a copy here. Of course, if you are not a smoker, you can always just read through the pamphlet to learn what happens to the millions of cigarette butts that are carelessly discarded in the environment each year and help educate your friends that do smoke.
Tell us how you recycle your old wetsuit. We are looking for unique environmental friendly ways to recycle old wetsuits. Green Guru has a few great ideas, for example, they make messenger bags and other accessories from neoprene wetsuits. Surfrider Foundation supports their cause, so please help and recycle your old wetsuit!
The new Connecticut Science Museum would like the Connecticut Chapter to participate in some form as an exhibit in their sports lab. They are looking into a water sports display, that we would have our group info/mission on display, and it may also be tied to their environmental education program. Details are to be developed but it is great that we will be part of the Center when it opens in 2008!
The Connecticut Chapter would like to thank Jeff Browning of BruRm at BAR in New Haven for his generous donation of $1,000 to the Connecticut Chapter. The funds were generated from the Restaurant/Brewpub’s annual Connecticut Real Ale Fest where Jeff graciously donates proceeds toward charitable organizations and causes. Jeff’s donation has made the current Stormdrain Contest possible as well as helped to establish basic funding to help the Chapter operate and become more active in the community. BAR is located at 254 Crown Street in New Haven. Visit BAR to taste some of the best pizza New Haven has to offer and to sample Jeff’s delicious in house homemade brews.
If you would like to order the Connecticut Chapter T-Shirt, please send a check for $15 to Andrew indicating your size and color preference.
- If you would like to purchase a copy of Pepper McNeil's book "Kitty goes Californian", please contact Andrew. Pepper McNeil is a Connecticut born author supporting the Surfrider Foundation.
