Start it Right in 2015

I’ve done it!  Made my New Year’s Resolution!  I will admit it was made and as soon as I told someone what my resolution was their eyes seemed to roll in disbelief.  Okay, confession time from me.  I am the world’s worst [a lot of you would not argue with me at all on that…

Oysters ‘R’ in . . .

Jerry Hopkins, Headwaters Chapter President November 5, 2014 I have been appointed to fill the President’s position for the term that will end in November 2015.  I have met with many of the members since the appointment to get me ‘in the curve.’  I said at the Annual Meeting and will repeat it here, I…

Headwaters Goes On Display

In Newport News It was all very last minute but somehow we pulled it off. The day before registration closed for the Virginia Master Naturalist 6th Annual Statewide Volunteer Conference and Training in Newport News, RoxAnna decided to make the commitment and registered successfully for the Basic Training Symposium, Annual Reports/Certification Spreadsheets Help and the…

The Value of Making a Difference

So, What Did I Get? And What Am I Getting? RoxAnna Theiss   In the fall of 2011 I took my Master Naturalist Training.  There were 22 ish in the class and we spent nine weeks learning whatever could be crammed into nine weeks about the natural world and the conservation and preservation of Virginia’s…