MOTHER EARTH DAY
Saturday, MAY 8, 2010


The weekend the Mothers collide!
10 a.m. -  5 p.m.
Robert Reed Park
Next to the Old Drawbridge
On the Water Front in Downtown Chincoteague


Listen
to the Mother Earth Day podcast with Coordinator Megan McCook

Join us for the third annual Mother Earth Day Festival and . . .

 
HEAR Live Music featuring
  • Hemlock Hollow performing their great mix of contemporary songs
  • Celtic Islanders performing a mix of Celtic music
     
  • Mama DuPree & the PhD's
     
  • Greg Shupe and the Fair and Balanced Band
     
  • Earth Band Jam 

The music stage will be powered by solar panels!
   
 

 LEARN Amazing Facts about the environment and how you can help protect it at information booths including:
  • Educational wind and solar display by Energy Options and Construction 
     
  • Touch tank and educational booth for kids by the The Marine Consortium 
     
  • Recycled art for sale by Chincoteague High School students to raise money for arts programs
     
  • Hooligan Heron Habitat - a cool game about pirates sponsored by the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge 
     
  • Locks for Love....donate your locks for cancer with Carl Rhodes from Headquarters Hair Salon

NEW THIS YEAR!

Household hazardous waste recycling trailer on site
All Accomack County residents bring your old household
chemicals, paints, varnishes, insecticides, etc.
to be safely disposed of and recycled.

 

BID on Unique Works of Art
Local artists have turned offical, authorized United States Mail Boxes into one-of-a-kind, whimsical and unique works of art The mail boxes will be sold during a silent auction during the festival to raise funds to improve the park.  Each mail box has a certificate of authenticity and the artist’s bio.  A great way to own a piece of original art! Completed mail boxes are on display in the window at Sundial Books.


BUY Mother-Earth-Approved Stuff

  • Organic Food at the Main Street Merchants Farmers Market
     
  • Artists and craftsfolk will be selling their wares made from recycled materials
     
  • MAKE A MOTHER'S DAY gift with cardboard, bamboo and a plastic bag
     
  • BICYCLE POWERED SPIN ART

 
 
 
 
NEW!! Locks for Love....donate your locks for cancer with Carl Rhodes from Headquarters Hair Salon...
 
 
 
PLAY GAMES with your little ones.  Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) will sponsor face painting and activities for the little guys when they need a break
 
  
  

If you don’t need any of this, come anyway.

Your mother is counting on you! 

 

To work as a volunteer to support Mother Earth Day
Click Here

To participate as an artist, performer, vendor, etc.
Click Here

Thanks are in order!!!

Sponsors help make this great
community event possible.

♦  Davis Disposal, Chincoteague Chamber of Commerce, Eastern Shore Soil and Water Conservation District, Accomack County, WCTG, Chincoteague Kiwanis, Historic Main Street Merchants, Spangler Construction, Allen Clark Construction, Shore Pellet Stoves, Windwater Architecture.

Don't forget to thank them personally
for their support of CCA events!!!!

 

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