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    1 2 3PADDLE TO CEDAR SWAMP POND, Fruit Street in Hopkinton
Date: May 03, 2008
Time: 9:00am-1:00pm

18th Annual Southborough Earth Day cleanup 8:30 - 11:30 Rain Date May 4.  Call DPW 485-1210 for street adoption. meet at Gazeebo at end of cleanup day for pizza, soda and ice cream.

May 3 Pilgrim Church Yard Sale  8:00 AM to 12:00 PM The Senior High Youth Group of Pilgrim Congregational Church

 

4 5 6BIRD IDENTIFICATION FOR BEGINNERS
Date: May 06, 2008
Time: Tu-Th 7:00-9:00pm; Sat 6:30-9:30am

 

CERT training information May 6 @ 7:00 PM Southborough Fire Station

 

7 8BIRD IDENTIFICATION FOR BEGINNERS
Date: May 06, 2008
Time: Tu-Th 7:00-9:00pm; Sat 6:30-9:30am

May 8 @ 7:00 PM Southborough trails club, recreation office, South Union School Highland Street

9 10BIRD IDENTIFICATION FOR BEGINNERS
Date: May 06, 2008
Time: Tu-Th 7:00-9:00pm; Sat 6:30-9:30am

INVASIVES SPECIES IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL, Sudbury
Date: May 10, 2008
Time: 1:00-4:00pm

May 10 Assabet Valley Singers Choral Concert 8:00 PM ARHS $15, $12 seniors/students

 
May 10 New England Center for Children 2nd annual walk/run for Autism 5 K

 

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PADDLE TO CEDAR SWAMP POND, Fruit Street in Hopkinton
Date: May 03, 2008
Time: 9:00am-1:00pm
Leader: SVT Volunteers and River Lorians Simon Vos and Dave Dimmock.  Enjoy this paddle to where the Sudbury River begins - Cedar Swamp Pond.  Twist and turn through the narrow stretches of the Sudbury, leading you to the breathtaking headwaters.  This program is for experienced paddlers only.  
Members: $15, Non-members: $25 Canoe rentals are not available for this program.
BIRD IDENTIFICATION FOR BEGINNERS
Date: May 06, 2008
Time: Tu-Th 7:00-9:00pm; Sat 6:30-9:30am
BIRD IDENTIFICATION FOR BEGINNERSThree Sessions (Dates listed below)Instructor: SVT Executive Director Ron McAdow, who has been a novice birder for thirty years.This three-session mini-course will teach beginners how to identify the groups of birds commonly seen in Eastern Massachusetts west of Boston.  In the two evening sessions, participants will practice identifying birds from slides.  On Saturday morning, we will take our new skills into the field, to try out on real birds.  Tuesday, May 6, 7:00-9:00pm, Wolbach Farm, SudburyThursday, May 8, 7:00-9:00pm   Wolbach Farm, SudburySaturday, May 10, 6:30-9:30am, Heard Farm, WaylandMembers: $20, Non-Members: $35 (Includes hard-bound Sibley Field Guide to Birds)
INVASIVES SPECIES IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL, Sudbury
Date: May 10, 2008
Time: 1:00-4:00pm
This activity was originally scheduled for May 3rd. Leader:  SVT Director of Stewardship Laura Mattei.  Invasive species are the second greatest threat to biodiversity, just behind habitat destruction from development.  Learn how to identify our top 10 invaders and how to control them – in your backyard or on conservation land. This will be a hands-on outdoor workshop.  Please wear long sleeves, long pants and closed shoes. REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Free
A MAY MORNING AT HEARD FARM
Date: May 10, 2008
Time: 6:30-9:30am
For those of you wishing to attend the Heard Farm birding program without the classes. 
Members: Free, Non-Members: $5 FIFTH ANNUAL PHOTO CONTEST
Date: May 12, 2008
Time: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm, May 12-June 6
Drop off at SVT headquarters from May 12 through June 6 (Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm only)Attention, all you nature enthusiast photographers.  You’ve probably taken some great photographs in our 36-town region.  Do you think yours could be award winning?  Bring up to three of your nature photographs, taken within the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord River Basin to our headquarters during the dates listed above.  Winning photographs will be selected in three categories (people, rivers, and wildlife habitat), plus an overall “Best In Show.”  All winning photographs will be displayed throughout Riverfest in the barn at Wolbach Farm.  More details on SVT’s web page starting April 15, 2008.

Members: Entry fee is $10 for the first photograph and $5 for additional photographs, Non-Members: $

May 3 18th Annual Southborough Earth Day cleanup 8:30 - 11:30 Rain Date May 4.  Call DPW 485-1210 for street adoption. meet at Gazeebo at end of cleanup day for pizza, soda and ice cream.

CERT training information May 6 @ 7:00 PM Southborough Fire Station

May 10 Assabet Valley Singers Choral Concert 8:00 PM ARHS $15, $12 seniors/students

Information: (978)-562-9838 or www.avmsingers.org 

Alene E. Cole, Publicity

(978)-562-9838

May 3 Pilgrim Church Yard Sale  8:00 AM to 12:00 PM The Senior High Youth Group of Pilgrim Congregational Church, Southborough is holding a Yard Sale on Saturday, May 3, 2008 from 8am-12noon at the church on Common Street, rain or shine!  We are selling spaces for $15.00, where you can set up your table and sell all those unwanted treasures you have hiding in your attic, garage or basement.  Please call 508-329-1381 to reserve you space today.  Don't wait, they are going fast!
 

May 10 New England Center for Children 2nd annual walk/run for Autism 5 K

May 8 @ 7:00 PM Southborough trails club, recreation office, South Union School Highland Street