The 2016 Fall e-Newsletter is now posted on the site. See link in sidebar at left.

The pram racks and boardwalk will be moved from Clark Beach to the parking lot on Saturday, October 15 at 9:00am. Please remove your pram or kayak from Clark Beach beforehand.

The Triangle Garden Fall Clean-Up and Cider Party is Sunday, October 23 at 2 p.m. Come with your clippers, rakes, and barrels. Bring a rain hat - maybe the drought will have relented. Cider party to follow at Deborah Cassady's, 60 North Ridge Rd.

The 25th AGN 5K/Fitness Walk & 1/2K Gobbler Trot (8 years and younger) to benefit the AGN Scholarship Fund is Saturday, November 5 at the Naoko OÕFlynn Playground on Little Neck Road. This is a USATF sanctioned event and timed by Bay State Race Services. Also all participants are entered into the Turkey Raffle (win a turkey), which is drawn after the race. The registration form is HERE

CONSERVATION CORNER:
Vegetation corridors adjacent to shorelines provide valuable social, economic, and environmental benefits to people and wildlife. Shoreline buffers refer to the forested or vegetated strips of land that border lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands, and ponds. These strips of ground covers, shrubs and trees help protect water quality, aquatic ecosystems, fish and wildlife, and lessen the impacts of flooding. The canopy created by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous vegetation moderates the impact of heavy rains, shades the shoreline to keep water temperatures cooler, produces organic matter and woody debris essential to shallow-water ecology, and provides food and shelter for wildlife. The vegetation also helps to decrease flood hazards by increasing the soils ability to absorb water. Root systems give soil structure, hold soil in place, direct rainfall down into the soil instead of over the soil, and can extract nutrients and contaminates from soil. Maintenance and restoration of shoreline vegetation allows native plants to fill in the shore-land zone increasing biodiversity and wildlife habitat.