8/17/2023: Pawtucket Arts Festival Taking Place September 1 – 10, 2023, Call for Vendors
August 17, 20238/20/2023: Time changes for Saturday Night Evening River Cruises
August 20, 2023
Keep Blackstone Valley Beautiful
Donna Kaehler * keep@tourblackstone.com * 401-724-2200 x 209
8/22, 9 am – 10:30 am, Cold Spring Park – Harris Ave. Woonocket
Cleanup aboard the Zap 50 Pontoon Boat.
KBVB is excited to host a cleanup on our ZAP 50 pontoon boat. We added the ZAP 50 to be our work boat on the river.
This gives us the ability to reach litter floating in the water, remove water chestnuts, tires, and help maintain the river.
Come join us — We have spots for 4 volunteers to enjoy a boat ride on the Blackstone and help the environment at the same time!
8/18 1 – 3 pm, Festival Pier, Pawtucket – 21 Tim Healey Way
We’re Cleaning the Blackstone River.
KBVB is participating in this year’s International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) with Save The Bay along the Blackstone River.
Every year, during this time of year, people from all over the world remove trash from the shores and document what they find. This data is reported back to the Ocean Conservancy who tracks litter around the world as we are “fighting for trash free seas”
Save The Bay is proud to be the Rhode Island State Coordinator for the effort, organizing dozens of cleanups throughout the state and now asking other organizations to hold an event and collect their litter data.
KBVB is happy to join this worthwhile litter effort and are looking for 20 volunteers to join us to clean and document litter at Festival Pier. This cleanup will spruce up the area for the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival happening a few days later on September 2nd.
Festival Pier is such a wonderful spot to picnic, fish, launch a boat, attend an event, or just enjoy the river. Together we can take care of this beautiful spot in the Blackstone Valley. (photo below – taken at Festival Pier at sunset)
Want to hold an ICC cleanup? Contact Save the Bay to get involved.
9/12, 10 am – 12 pm: We’re Gardening at Chocolate Mill Overlook Park
Chocolate Mill Overlook
648 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket RI 02860
Do you like gardening? If so we want you to join KBVB to install native & pollinator plants at the historic Chocolate Mill Overlook, one of North America’s first water-powered chocolate mills!
KBVB would like 8 volunteers to help plant and beautify this location. For this project, we partnered with the Rhode Island Wild Plant Society to plant more native plants in our area.
We’ll bring the gardening tools & gloves. You just come in work clothes to get dirty. Bring water, sunscreen, and insect repellent if needed. See you there!
