Boom Days are upon us once again! Spring is on its way and the
ice boom is coming out of Lake Erie. Parties, ceremonies, and activities abound
on Saturday, April 18th at three different regional venues. Mark your
calendar and plan to join in! For more information, visit www.boomdays.com or Facebook.
They even have a poetry contest. Celebrate Buffalo Niagara and
the waterfront in poetry! Prizes: 1st: $300, 2nd: $100, 3rd: $50. No length limit;
all entries must be in English. Submit to: boomdays@bnriverkeeper.org by noon on Thursday, April 16th, 2009.
Winners will be notified ahead of time and announced at the Dug's Dive party
(see below).
Events kick off Saturday morning, April 18th:
9AM to Noon: Up to 1,000 hard-working volunteers will partner
with Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER to clean up the shoreline of 40 sites
throughout the Buffalo Niagara region. For more information or to sign up to
volunteer, click here or call (716)
852-7483.
1PM to 4PM: Kite flying at Tifft Nature Preserve, 1200 Fuhrmann
Boulevard, Buffalo. The only day of the year you can fly a kite at Tifft! Make
a kite with our help or bring one of your own.
Saturday, April 18th:
Dug's Dive, 1111 Fuhrmann Boulevard, Buffalo (NFTA Small Boat Harbor)
5:30 - 10:00 p.m. Food, fun, and firework. Be sure to try some of Flying Bison's Ice Boom Bock with sales benefiting Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER.
5:45 - Welcome to Boom Days 2009 - Boom Days Chair Rick Smith, President of Rigidized Metals Corporation and Julie Barrett O'Neill, Executive Director, Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER. Shoreline Cleanup Report and Volunteer Recognition, Kerri Bentkowski, Citizen Action Coordinator, Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER. Poetry contest winners announced.
6:15 - Living Waters: Reading the Rivers of the Lower Great Lakes. Reading and book signing by the author--Margaret Wooster, Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER Watershed Planner. Books will be available for purchase.
6:30 - Music begins - The Stonebridge Band.
8:30 - 50/50 split followed by a fireworks display by WNY Skylighters
9:00 -
Music resumes - The Stonebridge Band
Saturday,
April 18th:
LaSalle Yacht Club, 73 South 68th St, Niagara Falls
6:00 - 10:00 p.m. Food, fun, and fireworks
6:15 -
Music - Ladies First Jazz, created by Jennifer May
6:45 -
Cannon fire / musket fire - LaSalle Yacht Club & Fort Niagara; canoe
landing - LaSalle, Hennepin, Frontenac, & Co.; Pledge of Allegiance;
Environment Pledge of Allegiance; City Proclamation - Mayor Paul Dyster; Senate
Proclamation - Senator Antoine Thompson; Song - America the Beautiful.
7:15 -
Music - Ladies First Jazz, created by Jennifer May
7:30 -
LaSalle Waterfront Park Plans on large TV in bar area
8:30 -
Fireworks display by WNY Skylighters
9:10 -
50/50 split
9:15 - Music - Ladies First Jazz, created by Jennifer May
Saturday,
April 18th:
Youngstown
Yacht Club, 491 Water Street, Youngstown
Time
TBA - Kite-flying with Buffalo Audubon Society. Make a kite with our help or
bring one of your own.
5:00
p.m. - Cash/credit bar and dinner. Reservations suggested - call (716) 745-7230
x14. Group exhibits.
7:00 p.m.
- Music - The Carl Filbert Band
Photo: www.boatnerd.com by Dan Syrcher
lets build a dam at the site in the photograph and generate our own electricity....the power could be strictly for use by the residents of the city of Buffalo and it's immediate suburbs. We could sell any unused power the the New York State Power Authority, or NY city( whichever entity bids highest) ...