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Big Little Water, a talk by Tom Baird, 11 Sep 2012

Tuesday, a talk by a fan from Florida
of our own Withlacoochee River, at the VSU Student Center,
7:30 9PM 11 September 2012, free admission.
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Big Little Water by Tom Baird, hosted by

Blazer Gardens
in conjunction with

WWALS

Big Little Water—a survey of the history, geology and
archaeology of the Withlacoochee River, with replica artifacts
people can handle, and slides.

“I’ll also get into some of the
current threats to the river and maybe we can get into a good
discussion and Q&A.”


Withlacoochee River
Tom Baird is an education consultant who has previously worked as a
high school teacher, community college instructor (oceanography and
microbiology), director of a science and environmental center,
supervisor of science (K-12) in Pasco Co., FL, Director of Science
(PreK-12) in Pinellas Co., FL, Principal of a
math/science/technology magnet high school in Pinellas Co., FL. and
director of a National Science Foundation program. He is on the
boards of the Panhandle Archaeological Society at Tallahassee and
the St. Marks Refuge Association. He most enjoys exploring Florida
and Georgia rivers by kayak and canoe. He is currently working on a
book about the Withlacoochee River of South Georgia and northern
Florida.


Blazer Gardens
Address:

VSU Student Union

Oak Street @ Baytree Road

Valdosta GA 31698


Map and Directions


WWALS
There’s also a

facebook invitation.

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Clean streams to attract business —Al Browning



Al Browning of

WWALS
made a point yesterday that I haven’t heard mentioned
by local Chambers of Commerce or economic development agencies:

Suppose there’s a business looking to south Georgia, to move into an area.
They can go to the

Adopt-A-Stream website for that particular area,
and get an idea of where the best water is.
And they may choose… that Berrien County has terrible water;
I’m going to go to Cook County, or Lowndes!

Here’s

the video:

That’s

Georgia Adopt-A-Stream,
which currently doesn’t show any water quality testing sites
for any of those counties, but that could change soon.
Maybe economic development organizations should help it change,
because that lack could be steering businesses elsewhere.

A prominent local economic development appointee asked me last year,

Why would you want absolutely clean ear or water?

Well, businesses considering moving here might want those things
because their employees do.
And their employees might want those things because they
don’t want to get sick.
And besides, who doesn’t like clean air and water?

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