Hogans Creek Cleanup Saturday Sept 17

[fieldafm]

The next cleanup will be part of the 26th annual nationwide International Coastal Cleanup on September 17 from 9AM to 11AM.  We will be holding the event at the Jacksonville Historical Society.  Keep Jacksonville Beautiful is providing us with trash bags and a dumpster.  The Historical Society is graciously granting us access with plenty of parking.  Volunteers will also be receiving free tshirts afterwards at RAM.

Those of you who were with us for the St Johns River Celebration cleanup last March at this very site will remember that we filled up nearly an entire dumpster full of trash.  10 volunteers managed to gather more debris along Hogans Creek than the 50+ volunteers along the Northbank Riverwalk that same day. 

[Lucasjj]

I will be there.

Noone, will you be bringing multiple kayaks again? That really helped last time.

[north miami]

Noone-how about bringing Chicken Nuts!

The great tradition

[north miami]

Today Noone plucked some papers out of his COJ Events Travel Pack.......slid them across the table.

$5,000 FIND funding to City of Jacksonville,Keep Jacksonville Beautiful Affiliates.
Trash cleanup,education.

This is what is helping fund tomorrow's city wide event.

Great to see Hogans Creek in deserved continued limelight.

Remember-" Visit Jacksonville!" is not directed only to non residents.Visit extensively throughout your home county.
Our Waterways Rock!!

[deathstar]

Can just anybody show up and come help? Depending on how I feel in the morning, I may just come down and help. I'd need a place to lock my bike up, should be pretty easy to find somewhere, right?

[Lucasjj]

Sorry, I didn't see your post this morning Deathstar. Yes anyone can help, and please come out to when we do another in the future. We need all the help we can get out there.

Just a little recap. We had five people, four from MetroJacksonville (Noone, Field, North Miami, and myself) cleaning Hogan's Creek this morning out  behind the Jacksonville Historical Society. We were able to grab another shopping cart out of there to add to our growing collection. We were also able to clean up a few old camps which really become messes on the shore.

Noone held a prize drawing this morning for the participants. North Miami won a shirt, Field won a gift certificate to Robert's Eatery, and I won a gift certificate to Chicago Pizza. It wasn't rigged I promise. You can even see our random drawing mechanism.



It was a real good time, so if you are interested please come out the next time. Along with benefiting the creek and feeling of accomplishment, it is an enjoyable time.

This was our haul this morning.

[deathstar]

Judging from what you guys picked up, you could definitely use an extra helping hand and I'd be more than glad to lend that hand. I pondered whether on going or not, however the "how I feel" is from a cold I just can't shake. Be it the change in weather, something in the air, I just don't know.

Maybe with a little bit more heads up and possibly an event created on the Metro Jacksonville Facebook, a few more people might show up? I thought about you guys, and how much work you put into cleaning up what you could, while biking over the Riverwalk bridge where the train goes underneath. I looked down and just saw an area littered with trash and just shook my head. I know a lot of people go walking/jogging there every single day and have to see it.

I applaud your efforts, and given that I hopefully feel better in the future and work doesn't keep changing my schedules, 5 Saturday's off in a row now I'm working 6 days straight next week, I'd really like to help.

[fieldafm]

C'mon out.  We may do one towards the end of October

I thought about you guys, and how much work you put into cleaning up what you could, while biking over the Riverwalk bridge where the train goes underneath. I looked down and just saw an area littered with trash and just shook my head. I know a lot of people go walking/jogging there every single day and have to see it.

That area is cleaned up every other week by the duval county prison population, they clean the entire Northbank Riverwalk from Berkman all the way down to the Acosta.

[north miami]

The Jail is conveniently right there

Keep Beautiful,FIND "Educational" lesson:

At some point we the citizen will free ourselves from "cleanup" prison sentence and call for Creek System Trash inflow abatement.

[Noone]

Sorry, I didn't see your post this morning Deathstar. Yes anyone can help, and please come out to when we do another in the future. We need all the help we can get out there.

Just a little recap. We had five people, four from MetroJacksonville (Noone, Field, North Miami, and myself) cleaning Hogan's Creek this morning out  behind the Jacksonville Historical Society. We were able to grab another shopping cart out of there to add to our growing collection. We were also able to clean up a few old camps which really become messes on the shore.

Noone held a prize drawing this morning for the participants. North Miami won a shirt, Field won a gift certificate to Robert's Eatery, and I won a gift certificate to Chicago Pizza. It wasn't rigged I promise. You can even see our random drawing mechanism.



It was a real good time, so if you are interested please come out the next time. Along with benefiting the creek and feeling of accomplishment, it is an enjoyable time.

This was our haul this morning.

Some of the kayaks that were stolen are in the pictures.
What was targeted were the one seater sit ins.
Any help would be appreciated.

[Noone]

Sorry, I didn't see your post this morning Deathstar. Yes anyone can help, and please come out to when we do another in the future. We need all the help we can get out there.

Just a little recap. We had five people, four from MetroJacksonville (Noone, Field, North Miami, and myself) cleaning Hogan's Creek this morning out  behind the Jacksonville Historical Society. We were able to grab another shopping cart out of there to add to our growing collection. We were also able to clean up a few old camps which really become messes on the shore.

Noone held a prize drawing this morning for the participants. North Miami won a shirt, Field won a gift certificate to Robert's Eatery, and I won a gift certificate to Chicago Pizza. It wasn't rigged I promise. You can even see our random drawing mechanism.



It was a real good time, so if you are interested please come out the next time. Along with benefiting the creek and feeling of accomplishment, it is an enjoyable time.

This was our haul this morning.

Some of the kayaks that were stolen are in the pictures.
What was targeted were the one seater sit ins.
Any help would be appreciated.

I believe two days out from next DIA Board meeting 9/18/13 anyone going? Last DIA Board meeting the OED slipped in a Mickee at the end of the meeting and had the Board Authorize an agreement that took the power away from DIA and it was right before the new guy Aundra Wallace was to start. If it was such a great benefit why did OED have DIA vote the Mickee?

Speaking of Super Duper new guys how about Paul Astleford new CEO of Visit Jacksonville 9 mos. on the job and his 9/3/13 front page headline story in the Florida Times Union about 32 organizations hindering Tourism? Open the Silo's!

In 5 days from the Jerry Spinks Memorial kayak launch and beach is another lower creek cleanup of Hogans Creek. Field I'm thinking of getting a bow tie for this special event. It's from 9-11 next to the casket factory and behind the Historical Society.

Thanks again and again and again to the Jacksonville Historical Society for their support and to Vivian Harrell who is no longer with the city but was also instrumental and we have all come to appreciate her assessment of this location. Hogans Creek is not a fluff site.

It should be an incoming tide. Have a kayak? Bring it. Bring your fishing poles and if you catch a fish and then show everyone what you caught I will personally share another Jacksonville treasure with you. My treat. Fish and clean. Clean and fish. Put that in a brochure when you Visit Jacksonville!

[Noone]

3 hours out and Congratulations to all who are participating at various locations throughout the community.

[Noone]

Another positive thread about what is taking place everywhere in cleaning up our community.

[Noone]

Vivian Harrell "Hogans Creek is not a fluff site."

Vince Seibold- Environmental Ethics

And yesterday pulling into the parking lot just ahead of me for the start of the River Celebration cleanup behind the Casket Factory and Old St. Luke's  Hospital was John Burr with the Jacksonville Business Journal. Somebody pinch me. I was telling him that I love when you are on Friday with Melissa Ross and the week end round table. I brought some fishing poles and we are just talking as we are walking to the sandy beach of another future potential kayak launch under Duval St. There were 3 guys just waking up on the other side.

The weather was slightly overcast and we were catching the last of the outgoing tide and then the first of the incoming. I caught a redfish last year but given the conditions I wasn't t expecting to but none the less we were going to give it a try. I also brought the Keith Myers kayak. He had given me his a few years back when I had 6 stolen. Some are in the picture above. Keith and I share some great experiences.

There were a few regulars that made it again for another year, Richard and Robert and both commented on how the area has changed. It has been clear cut and you just have to cross your fingers about what is going on. Anyway it is another small group that just takes the ball and runs with it. Bags were being filled up left and right. You are now able to walk in places that were impossible last year.

At one point I put the kayak in and just wanted to take it up to the rapids of Hogans Creek. Just some well placed chunks of busted up concrete. It was still an outgoing tide and I'm scraping the bottom. Saw some nice bird activity. Took it back checked the fishing poles. Nothing.

The time is flying by and and it's about 10:20 and everyone is spread out and still working hard. I mention to John that we may want to start wrapping this up then he says "Just one more bag." We weren't talking about the future marijuana legislation. But I grabbed another one and joined him as we walked and started filling up another one. It was at this time that a Kingfisher was flying up the middle of the creek a few feet above the water and with the clear cutting we were above the waterway and looking down as it just flew the length of the creek before disappearing from sight.

So here we are near the end and John flushes a snake. Water snake? Water moccasin? It wasn't a small garter snake. Very cool to see. Robert had joined us and again here we are in the urban core and you just see and experience the wildlife that is right before us. Another great year in celebrating and participating in a positive activity.

Going forward our Waterways will continue to be a part of our lives and an identity for our city.

John Burr I think that you have inspired a new battle cry for Hogans Creek. "One more bag."

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