News & Stories Archive
July 7, 2014
By Alena Rosen, AFF Communications Coordinator This year reveals another record breaking year for the Annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup with 14,766 volunteers removing 288 tons of trash from 671 sites throughout the Watershed. […]
July 1, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 1, 2014 (Washington, DC) Thousands of Potomac Watershed residents battled against the negative impacts of litter this spring through the two of the Alice Ferguson Foundation’s […]
May 23, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 20, 2014 (Accokeek, MD) In partnership with Old Line Bank, the Alice Ferguson Foundation will unveil its Potomac Watershed Study Center Wetlands Boardwalk with a ribbon […]
April 9, 2014
By Clara Elias, Program Manager, Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative Litter is in our communities, parks, and waterways in large part because someone chooses to drop their trash on the […]
April 4, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 3, 2014 CONTACT: Alena Rosen Communications Coordinator Tel: 202-417-3523 Cell: 202-580-9045 arosen@old-ferguson.lndo.site “Spring Cleaning” of Potomac River to Provide Key Data for Next Steps in Battle […]
March 26, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 26, 2014 CONTACT: Alena Rosen Tel: 202-417-3523 Cell: 202-580-9045 arosen@old-ferguson.lndo.site MEDIA ADVISORY 15,000 Volunteers Expected to Participate in Regional “Spring Cleaning” of the Potomac River […]
March 3, 2014
By Lori Arguelles, Executive Director, Alice Ferguson Foundation Have you ever stood on Mount Vernon’s portico and partaken of the pastoral panorama across the Potomac River? Have you ever wondered […]
February 25, 2014
By: Emily Drobenak, Schoolyards as Classrooms Project partner teacher at Accokeek Academy In early February each year, there is a convergence of minds in Ocean City, MD from an endless […]
January 28, 2014
By Brenda Wright, Hard Bargain Farm Education Center Coordinator “Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, […]
January 22, 2014
By Albert Arevalo, Community Outreach Liaison Before we rang in the New Year, I made my last 2013 visit to one of the communities I will be working in, Hechinger […]