Orleans Pond Coalition

Orleans, Massachusetts

📌 Celebrate Our Waters 2017 — Thank You!

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Celebrate Our Waters – Thank You

Celebrate Our Waters 2017 is now behind us and we want to thank everyone who came out and joined in the festivities and, more importantly, the many many people and organizations who helped make this happen. This was the eighth year the Orleans Pond Coalition put on our annual festival, and we certainly hope everyone enjoyed the weekend as much as we enjoyed orchestrating it.
If you run into them in town, please thank Anne Sigsbee and Carol Counihan, the two key individuals who co-chaired this year’s weekend. They spent countless hours arranging events and working through the endless behind-the-scenes details that made everything happen. Thanks also go out to Eileen Godin and John Ostman, who arranged the delightful reception at the Old Firehouse on Friday evening.
Our team has already started evaluating how we did this year and is looking for ways to improve Celebrate Our Waters next year. However, to do this, we need everyone’s help. Please send us your comments, suggestions, praise, criticism, jokes, photographs, stories, and any other information to COW2017@OrleansPondCoalition.org. We’ll review them and use them to make things run even more smoothly next year.
Photographs are particularly welcome. With your permission, we’ll use them on our web site and in our December Water Water Everywhere photograph column in the Cape Codder. Please include any details about where the photograph was taken and who took it.

Help Wanted!

The Orleans Pond Coalition brings Celebrate Our Waters to Orleans to help share our love for our community with our residents, visitors, and anyone passing through. We’re delighted when someone sails for the first time or successfully makes it up on a paddleboard. This year, we were particularly glad we had a chance to highlight the challenges we have with plastics in our waters. Many of us got a chance to hear how we’re trying to expand our local fishing market. At OPC, we consider ourselves very fortunate to be in a position to share these experiences with an ever growing community.

However, we need your help. In looking ahead, we recognize that our most critical need is to build a larger and stronger team to pull this all together. It’s a lot of fun and a great opportunity to give back to Orleans. If you’d like to join the steering committee, help plan the logistics as we come up to the weekend, host a new event, or simply help out on the weekend, please send a note to COW2017@OrleansPondCoalition.org.
We also invite you to join the Orleans Pond Coalition and support us financially. You can contribute online at Join or Renew Your Membership or you can mail in your membership using the envelope we included with our Ponderings newsletter.

 Million Thanks!

The Orleans Pond Coalition joined with the Town of Orleans to host Celebrate Our Waters. While we often take them for granted, we would be remiss if we didn’t let everyone know how much we appreciate the efforts of the many town employees who supported us through the weekend. From when the Town Administrator and the Selectmen first approved our request, through all the permitting and other logistics, to the support of Nate Sears and his staff at the bonfire, we thank them all. Thankfully, everything went smoothly, but we know the Police and Fire Departments were there if we needed them.
We also thank the many individuals who put on an event, who hosted an event, who helped us prepare for the weekend, or supported us in many different ways. The best way you can help is to thank these folks when you see them in town, take a class or a lesson at their businesses, eat in their restaurant, or simply let them know how much you appreciate their support for the Orleans Pond Coalition and for our waters in Orleans.

Addison Art Gallery
Alan Levick
Alan McClennen
Arey’s Pond Boat Yard
Association to Preserve Cape Cod
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Barb Murphy
Betsy Furtney
Cape Cod Cooperative Extension
Cape Cod Fishermen’s Alliance
Cape Cod Five
Cape Kayaking
Center for Coastal Studies
Coastal Engineering
Community Development Partnership
Denya LeVine
DJ Tom Tuttle
French Cable Station
Goose Hummock
Jackson Gillman
Jan Brink
Joan Francolini
John Fallendar
Jonathan Young Windmill
Judith Bruce
Land Ho!
Main Street Books
Mal and Steve Bonnemeier
Massachusetts Audubon Wellfleet Bay
Maureen and Craig Boyce
Molly Jenkins
Namequoit Sailing Association
Nauset Beach Lifeguards
Nauset Middle School Summer Science Institute
Nauset Model Sailing Club
Nauset Newcomers Biking Group
Nauset School District Parents
Orleans Conservation Trust
Orleans Council on Aging
Orleans Historical Markers Committee
Orleans Historical Society
Orleans Yoga
Paul Minus
Pleasant Bay Community Boating
Rock Creek Oysters
Sir Speedy Orleans
Snow Library
The Corner Store
The Federated Church of Orleans
The Minor 3rds
Todd Kelley at Nickerson State Park
Walter North
Wilkinson Ecological Design

About Orleans Pond Coalition

Orleans Pond Coalition, Inc. is a volunteer organization dedicated to protecting and enhancing the saltwater estuaries and freshwater ponds and lakes of Orleans. Our work includes offering educational programs to encourage mindful land use practices, sponsoring water quality research, working with community, regional and state organizations to formulate constructive policies to protect our … Learn More

Our Mission

Orleans Pond Coalition is dedicated to the protection and health of our shared watersheds, estuaries, ponds and lakes.

Orleans   Pond   Coalition

PO  Box  2485

Orleans,   MA   02653

OrleansPondCoalition@gmail.com