KADB to host 15th water education festival
File Photo
From staff reports
ALBANY — As many as 866 students are expected to take part in a hands-on three-day water education festival Tuesday through Thursday at the Albany Civic Center.
The goal of the 15th annual festival is to provide a fun education opportunity for third-grade students to learn, appreciate and explore the many uses of water.
Interactive water activities and presentation topics include:
♦ Waste not, want not
♦ Non-point source
♦ pollution
♦ Mosquito control
♦ Protecting water quality in our forests
♦ Agricultural water use
♦ Weather and you
♦ Conservation Jeopardy
♦ HZoo0.
Activities will continue each day from 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the 100 W. Oglethorpe Blvd. Civic Center.
The festival is organized and hosted by Keep Albany-Dougherty Beautiful and ASU’s Georgia Water Planning and Policy Center. Sponsors include the Darsey Family Foundation.
Related Articles
‘Sounds Like a Mutiny.’ Secret Recording Exposes Claims of Toxic Leadership After a Marine’s Suicide
This week’s War Horse story follows the systemic failures before and after the death of Cpl. Drew Mobley who was the third in two years at Marine Corps Base Quantico to die by suicide.
Southwest Georgia artists recognized at packed opening of exhibition
The annual juried exhibition, one of the region’s largest showcases of visual art, features approximately 46 artists and nearly 90 works spanning painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography and mixed media.
Powerful performances drive Theatre Albany’s ‘The Color Purple’
From the street, strands of purple ribbon wind around the white columns of the historic theater, hinting at the story waiting beyond its doors. Inside the foyer, a carefully curated slideshow flickers across a large screen, cycling through the faces of the cast. Some are seasoned performers. Others are stepping onto a stage for the very first time. Teachers stand alongside former students. Parents perform beside their children. People who worship in different churches, work different jobs and come from different corners of Southwest Georgia gather beneath the same lights to tell the same story.
