Dates: Saturday July 21, August 18, September 15, 9:00 am–12:00 pm
Location: Oaklette United Methodist Church, 520 Oaklette Dr., in the Pavilion (parking is at Indian River Road and St. Lawrence Dr.)
Oaklette United Methodist Church is organizing a harvest exchange! If you have some extra garden produce from your garden but are lacking something else, this is your chance to make an exchange. You can bring something/take something. The exchange is free–no money is involved.
Date: Tuesday, August 7, 6 pm - 8 pm
Location: Indian River Baptist Church, 1600 Laurel Avenue
The Norfolk Highlands Civic League is organizing a local National Night Out event at Indian River Baptist Church. Plans include a bounce house, food, a fire truck to tour, and more. They'll also be collecting school supply donations. And stop by the Friends of Indian River information table at the event!
Date: Saturday, Sept 15, 11 am to 4 pm
Location: Tanglewood Neighborhood in Indian River, on the grounds of St. Brides Episcopal Church, 621 Sparrow Road, Chesapeake (3 blocks north from Irwin's) (Rain Date: October 6)
Clear your calendar and come out to celebrate our community and our river at this year's RiverFest. The annual event organized by the Elizabeth River Project will be in our area this year and promises loads of fun and lots of great information. This will be a dog friendly event!
Visit the Science Dome and learn what’s in our river | Tons of Cool, FREE Kids Activities | Bring Your Dog
Earn Your FREE River Star Home Garden Flag | Native Plant Sale | Adopt a River Otter | Live Music | Food | NEW Elizabeth River Girl Scout Patch | Scoop the Poop Relay | River Theme Dog Costume Contest
The Elizabeth River Project will be starting a door to door campaign in our area in the coming weeks to educate residents about the problems caused by dog poop.
The Indian River gets a failing grade, an "F", on water quality due to bacterial contamination and excessive fertilizer use. Water sample testing has found that 80% of the water samples are contaminated with bacteria from dog poop. We have about 6,000 to 8,000 dogs living in the Indian River area and the average dog poop has 23 million fecal bacteria - and long after the poop "disappears", the bacteria persist in the soil and gets washed into our waters. Composting is also not effective; the typical backyard compost pile is not hot enough to destroy this bacteria - it just concentrates it.
Picking up after your dog - even in your backyard and even if you don't live near the river - is critically important to making the river and green spaces of our community a healthy and safe place to play, garden, and fish. Spread the word - scoop the poop, bag it, and trash it!
No one likes mosquitoes. And prevention is a lot more effective - and less harmful to bees and butterflies - than trying to kill mosquitoes by spraying. Mosquitoes need three to seven days of standing water to complete their lifecycle from eggs to biting adults. Perform regular scans of your yard to make sure there is NO standing water. This includes tarps where rainwater has collected, clogged rain gutters, buckets, unmanaged birdbaths, old tires, planters, pet dishes, kiddy pools, cans or bottles. And since mosquitoes can fly several hundred feet, help pass the word to your neighbors! To get more tips see http://content.yardmap.org/learn/mosquitoes/

Date: Saturday, Sept 22, 9 AM to Noon
This is a "Bring Your Own Boat" event. If you have a boat but no where to put in along the river, contact us to make arrangements on where to put in. If you'd like to participate but have no boat, also contact us and we'll let you know if anyone has a spot to take an extra person. We may also do a land based cleanup around the Indian River Oaklette Bridge if there is enough interest.
If you plan to participate, it is important to let us know so that we can plan appropriately and provide additional information on where we will gather. Please RSVP to info@friendsofindianriver.org
Please also review safety information including the Safety Plan and Canoe/Kayak Safety.
Rain Date, October 6 in the afternoon, from 1 pm to 4 pm.

The City Council also approved several other projects potentially affecting our community including rehabilitation of the Oaklette Bride on Indian River Road, a study on School Facilities and Redistricting, the development of a Master Plan to potentially build a Multipurpose Stadium (for school-level sport) at a central location in the city, and an ordinance to establish a Land Bank to Address Vacant, Abandoned, and Tax Delinquent Properties. Read more at in our Facebook post.
For Clean The Bay Day on June 2, we had 84 volunteers, probably from age 6ish to 76ish. This was the first time we focused on the Ipswich area at the south end of the Indian River Park - the headwaters of the Indian River. The teams scoured the park and brought out 700 lbs of trash, including 4 tires and 2 broken wheel barrows. See more pics at https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofIndianRiver/posts/1835360729862603
And later in June, 7 volunteers come out for our quarterly cleanup along Indian River Road. We kept it short due to the heat but still collected nearly 100 lbs of trash between the Post Office and Oaklette UMC and around the bridge. And that included lots of plastic - bags, bottles, wrappers, cups - about 7 bags full. https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofIndianRiver/posts/1862036473861695
You can now also become a member of the Friends of Indian River, renew your membership, or make a donation online at http://www.friendsofindianriver.org/p/membership.html
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