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Our Mission:
To Promote the Health of the Fishing Creek Watershed
To Promote the Health of the Fishing Creek Watershed
****UPCOMING EVENTS****
Is Beekeeping for You?
Connie Lupold
Retired Science Teacher
Monday, October 12, 2026
7 PM
(See description below)
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****All events will be held in the Lower Level Conference Room in the Ag Services Building
at 702 Sawmill Road, Bloomsburg PA 17815 unless noted otherwise****
Our October Fishing Creek Watershed Association’s presenter poses a question for us: “Is beekeeping for you?” Connie Lupold, a retired middle school science teacher, has been keeping bees for more than six years and is a member of the Beekeepers of the Susquehanna Valley Bee Club. She will present an overview of backyard beekeeping and honeybees. We’re bound to learn both the challenges and pleasures of keeping bees.
Perhaps after hearing Connie’s experience, you may decide that you’d also like to add some hives to your yard. But, even if you don’t, you will gain a greater understanding of honeybees and their important role in pollination. Also a greater appreciation of the people who bring us honey!
Please join us and enlarge our hive by bringing along a friend or two. See you soon!
Perhaps after hearing Connie’s experience, you may decide that you’d also like to add some hives to your yard. But, even if you don’t, you will gain a greater understanding of honeybees and their important role in pollination. Also a greater appreciation of the people who bring us honey!
Please join us and enlarge our hive by bringing along a friend or two. See you soon!
This year’s Container Garden Contest was a huge success. We had beautiful weather, 13 clever entries and wonderful volunteers at our booth. Thanks to Tanya, Cynthia, Diane, Linda and Nancy, we were able to inform hundreds of passersby about FCWA’s programs and goals, and encourage them to vote for their favorite gardens. That enabled us to set a new record for receipts—$631– which will help us purchase professional signs for the rain garden at Kocher Park.
We’d like to thank everyone who participated, either by entering a garden, helping at our booth or voting for their favorites. It takes all of us to make the day successful. Please consider entering a garden next year. You, too, may share the bragging rights of this year’s winner, Deb Stabley, whose garden called “I’ve Got Nesting on my Mind” earned $92 for FCWA.
FCWA–Celebrating 2025 and Welcoming 2026
Thanks to the support of our members and volunteers, Fishing Creek Watershed Association enjoyed another productive and interesting year. A major reason for that success is the quality of the speakers who enriched us with these educational programs this year. We are extremely grateful!
In addition to these programs, FCWA members took part in other events in our watershed, including Fish’n Fun at Kocher Park in June, the Fourth Annual Susquehanna Valley Watershed Festival in July, and several cleanups of Kocher Park and Fishing Creek. We had a very successful day at ArtFest in Bloomsburg in August, where our annual Container Garden Contest set a new record for money earned to fund the plantings at Kocher Park.
As we plan another active and educational year, we want to thank the members and friends who volunteered their time and offered suggestions to help us improve our conservation efforts. We are an all-volunteer organization, and welcome others to join us in our efforts to protect the health of our watershed. You can join FCWA or renew your membership by using the attached membership form. We look forward to seeing you at our programs in 2026, and wish you a happy and healthy new year!
Yours in conservation,
Linda Dietrichson, Susan Webster and Dr. Jennifer Whisner
Thanks to the support of our members and volunteers, Fishing Creek Watershed Association enjoyed another productive and interesting year. A major reason for that success is the quality of the speakers who enriched us with these educational programs this year. We are extremely grateful!
- Dr. Eric C. Miller led a discussion on “The Good Life in the Era of Climate Change”..
- Bill Williams took us back in time to meet the CCC Boys of Camp Morton.
- Alan Belles, from our Columbia County Conservation District, reviewed the innumerable projects that improve the health of our watershed.
- Clay Corbin, with help from John Slotterback, took us birding in Kocher Park.
- Cynthia Schroll led us on two tours of the pollinator plantings in Kocher Park.
- Tanya Nebroski and other members of the Bloomsburg Community Creek Cleanup Project amazed (and horrified) us with slides of the tons of trash they remove monthly from our creek and along area roads.
- Dr. Irmgard Seidl- Adams opened our eyes to some of the tiniest residents of Kocher Park— the moss family.
- John Oast, the “Fishyaker”, introduced us to a fast-growing new sport: fishing from kayaks.
- Jake Klinger and Justin Faus, Columbia County Game Wardens, and Cadet Shaw educated us about black bears and taught us how to act when we meet them.
In addition to these programs, FCWA members took part in other events in our watershed, including Fish’n Fun at Kocher Park in June, the Fourth Annual Susquehanna Valley Watershed Festival in July, and several cleanups of Kocher Park and Fishing Creek. We had a very successful day at ArtFest in Bloomsburg in August, where our annual Container Garden Contest set a new record for money earned to fund the plantings at Kocher Park.
As we plan another active and educational year, we want to thank the members and friends who volunteered their time and offered suggestions to help us improve our conservation efforts. We are an all-volunteer organization, and welcome others to join us in our efforts to protect the health of our watershed. You can join FCWA or renew your membership by using the attached membership form. We look forward to seeing you at our programs in 2026, and wish you a happy and healthy new year!
Yours in conservation,
Linda Dietrichson, Susan Webster and Dr. Jennifer Whisner
The ArtFest Container Garden Contest 2025
We had a beautiful day, excellent entries and helpful volunteers, so it was the best ArtFest yet! Our 15 container garden entries attracted much attention and earned a record $627 toward our Kocher Park pollinator projects.
Our thanks go to everyone who entered, the members and friends who helped at the booth and to all who voted for their favorite gardens. The winning garden, “Nurse Log”, created and built by Joan McCarty, Cynthia Schroll and Keith Kocher, was both educational and beautiful. Its destination after winning will be in the woods, where it will decompose and continue to benefit flora and fauna. Congratulations to Cynthia, Keith and Joan for their prize-winning natural entry. (Cynthia was not present for the photo of the winning garden.)
In case you missed ArtFest, here are some pictures of the entries. We hope they inspire you to enter the contest next year and help us to set a new record!
We had a beautiful day, excellent entries and helpful volunteers, so it was the best ArtFest yet! Our 15 container garden entries attracted much attention and earned a record $627 toward our Kocher Park pollinator projects.
Our thanks go to everyone who entered, the members and friends who helped at the booth and to all who voted for their favorite gardens. The winning garden, “Nurse Log”, created and built by Joan McCarty, Cynthia Schroll and Keith Kocher, was both educational and beautiful. Its destination after winning will be in the woods, where it will decompose and continue to benefit flora and fauna. Congratulations to Cynthia, Keith and Joan for their prize-winning natural entry. (Cynthia was not present for the photo of the winning garden.)
In case you missed ArtFest, here are some pictures of the entries. We hope they inspire you to enter the contest next year and help us to set a new record!
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