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"I want to protect my shoreline property" Shoreline Action Checklist
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30+ WAYS TO CELEBRATE SHORELINES!

Here are some fun ideas for different ways to celebrate our connection to Canada’s shorelines. Get your together with a community group, a local stewardship or conservation group, or your family and friends to plan an event or activity!

• plan an activity or event linking upstream and downstream communities
• hold a Ribbon Joining Ceremony - between communities within:
  • a watershed 
  • provinces and territories 
  • Canada and the US
  • Communities and 1st Nations

• host a Native Storytelling evening with dancing and drumming - discover what your local shoreline means to your First Nations neighbours.
• ask an Oldtimer - get seniors in your community to participate in a storytelling event
• put on a festival celebrating shorelines
• bring a shoreline theme into your local fall fair
• organize a parade or procession
• hold a costume making party - catch the cast of shoreline characters
• put on a community play with a shoreline theme
• form a shoreline youth theatre group
• organize crafts workshops - make shoreline reed baskets, rubbed greeting cards etc.
• sponsor an art exhibit
• build a floating art exhibit or sculpture
• host an information workshop on the shorelines within your watershed
• form a Watershed Stewardship group (contact your regional Watershed Stewardship Alliance)
• adopt a habitat restoration program
• restore a shoreline
• hold an underwater cleanup - involve your local scuba divers
• host a house and yard educational workshop - ie. Tips on composting and making you own environmentally friendly cleaning products.
• organize a plant salvage - rescue native plants from an area slated for development and re-plant them along a local shoreline
• coordinate or promote an adopt-a-shoreline program
• send out a shoreline report card - get kids to grade your local waterfront parks
• set up a shoreline viewing tank - work with a science centre or educational institution to introduce people to local water creatures (contact your local aquarium or science centre).
• organize a shoreline discovery tour (contact your local naturalist club)
• build a historical shoreline walk (contact your local museum or historical society)
• plan an archaeological tour - visit the shorelines of the past with your local archeological society or museum (contact your local archaeological society)
• visit a shoreline industry - learn the importance of your shoreline to your community’s economy.
• hold a shoreline BBQ or Native pit cook
• organize a Shoreline Food Workshop - identify and cook with foods that come from our waters and shorelines
• organize or join a shoreline poster competition
• organize a shoreline poetry contest
• create an educational shoreline display - throw in a quiz and a prize so people will read it!
• test your local water quality
• perform a "Dip in" to test your water clarity (contact your local DFO office)
• go pond dipping for insects - bring a microscope!
• host a shoreline health and awareness conference or workshop (contact your local college or university)
• launch the Shoreline Ambassador� Certificate Program in your community
• make a Conservation Pledge to preserve a shoreline (contact The Living by Water Project)

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For further information:
Contact: The Living by Water Project, 250 832 7405 Fax 250 832 6874
P.O. Box 7, Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada, V1E 4N2
email: [email protected]

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along the shorelines of Canada"

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