{"id":3596,"date":"2017-07-30T07:24:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T07:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/?p=3596"},"modified":"2017-07-30T07:24:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T07:24:58","slug":"perths-watershed-discovery-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/perths-watershed-discovery-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth&#8217;s Watershed Discovery Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3597 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/files\/2017\/07\/17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/files\/2017\/07\/17.png 470w, https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/files\/2017\/07\/17-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bring your family \u2013 and all your questions on our water, our lakes and the programs underway to protect them \u2013 for an entertaining and informative morning for all ages.<\/p>\n<p>Watershed Discovery Day provides interactive exhibits and activities on the state of our local water resources, the challenges facing them, and the programs and plans available to address them \u2013 and experts from the area agencies managing our water resources.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered about:<br \/>\nHow safe is our water?<br \/>\nShould I be testing my well?<br \/>\nIs bottled water better to drink than tap water?<br \/>\nWhere is the best paddling and camping in the area?<br \/>\nWhat are invasive species, and should I worry?<br \/>\nWhat is the status of blue green algae?<br \/>\nAre zebra mussels and loosestrife still a problem?<br \/>\nAre major changes underway in our lake and stream water levels?<br \/>\nWhat is being done with the Haggart and the Bobs Lake dams?<\/p>\n<p>For the Children:<br \/>\nThis is a fun and informative morning featuring the popular Paddling Puppeteers, our educational \u2018fish pond\u2019, the Perth &amp; District Library story corner, water critters display, and prizes for all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>August 19<\/strong><\/span>, 2017 from <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">8 am to 1 pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Event location<\/strong>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p>Crystal Palace<br \/>\nCrystal Palace, Farmers Market,<br \/>\nTay Valley Basin, Perth, ON<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact\u00a0<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Friends of the Tay Watershed Association<br \/>\nPhone contact: (613) 264 0094<br \/>\nE-mail: <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"mailto:friends@tayriver.org\">friends@tayriver.org<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/taywatershed.ca\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">http:\/\/www.tayriver.ca\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  Bring your family \u2013 and all your questions on our water, our lakes and the programs underway to protect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[780,461,1334,1234],"class_list":["post-3596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perth-on","category-perth-ontario-events","tag-perth-events","tag-perth-on-2","tag-tay-watershed","tag-watershed-discovery-day"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJPiZ-W0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}