Area Activities - Saturday May 21-Mark your Calendars

Let's Get Together Peeps!

ORE PTO Festival and Fundraiser

When: Saturday, May 21st

Where: Orchard Ridge Elementary School (Gilbert Rd side)

Time: 11 to 2

Food Carts (food for sale), Music, Raffle, Scavenger Hunt, and more

Let's Get Together Peeps also welcomes Volunteers!  Sign Up here

ORE Spring Fling is right around the corner and we need your help!! See the flyer in English and Spanish here

Lake Wingra Gathering

When: Saturday, May 21

Where: Vilas Park

Time: 1-4:00 pm

The Dudgeon-Monroe Neighborhood Association WATER Team invites you to a family-friendly event. Arrive early with a picnic lunch, family members, a friend, or a neighbor. Attend the full afternoon or portions.

Interact with neighbors and people from 25 organizations committed to clean water needed by all life forms that share this planet with us. Learn more about water stewardship. Leave with new ideas, energy, and an expanded network as we collectively ensure the well-being of our beloved Lake Wingra, it's watershed and all that resides within.

Itinerary at https://fb.me/e/2fBr0YwrY  Feel free to contact Taylor water.wingragathering@gmail.com  

Participate in fun activities involving Lake Wingra and its surroundings.
Engage with storyteller Andi Cloud, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
Renew a sense of connection among people, land, and water.
Meet homeowners with rain gardens, rain barrels, or prairies instead of lawns as ways to keep water out of their basements.
Talk with neighbors who plant prairies and greenspaces on public property.
Talk with urban vegetable gardeners.
Learn how climate change impacts Madison Lakes and ways to lessen its effects.
Learn about water management including ways to address flooding.
Experience lake monitoring and tracking harmful chloride.
Enjoy art inspired by water research results.

 The Gathering is part of an award from the UW-Madison Arboretum's Water Action to Encourage Responsibility (WATER) agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Additional funds from Wisconsin Environmental Initiative (WEI), Regent Neighborhood Association, Friends of Lake Wingra, Marta Karlov, and others. Logo courtesy of Colleen Manner, Madison Enterprise Center - 100 S. Baldwin Street, Suite 300 E.