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Join Us on April 19, 2012

for our Annual Meeting @

7 pm @ the Winchester Public Library

to hear John Lineham speak

John Linehan, president and CEO of Zoo New England, is responsible for the leadership of 155 year-round Zoo employees and well over 1,000 animal residents. 

John's passion for wildlife and the environment began at an early age.  After graduating from the University of Maine he began his career at the Franklin Park Zoo.  Throughout the next 30 years John worked his way through nearly every position at both the Franklin Park Zoo and Stone Zoo and was appointed president in 2002.  He works closely with wildlife conservation programs.  John and his staff have grown Zoo New England's involvement with local and regional conservation initiatives with projects ranging from habitat restoration to turtle recovery.  John is active with other non-profit organizations and serves as Chair of his town's Open Space Committee, a member of the Community Preservation Committee and was formerly a long-term member and Chair of the Conservation Commission.

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Filthy to Fabulous: The Boston Harbor Story

Join the Friends of Winter Pond and Bruce Berman on Oct 25, 2011 at 7pm at the Winchester Public Library.  For 25 years, Save the Harbor/Save the Bay has been the driving force behind transforming Boston Harbor from one of the dirtiest urban harbors in America to one of the cleanest in the world. Our mission is to restore, protect and share Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Bay, our region’s beaches and the Boston Harbor Islands for everyone to enjoy. Working with a broad base of civic, corporate, government, scientific, philanthropic and community partners, Save the Harbor/Save the Bay continues to strengthen the connection between communities, the harbor, and promote the increasingly important impact Boston Harbor has on the region’s economy.

Since 1996, Save the Harbor has:

• Successfully advocated for billions of dollars in environmental cleanup of the harbor
• Led the efforts to create the Boston Harbor Islands National Park
• Connected more than 50,000 city youth with educational programs to the harbor
• Ongoing monitoring of the Harbor’s clean-up and its impact on water quality
• Organizes and funds other Harbor and beach related community groups

One of the original founders, Bruce Berman serves as Director of Strategy, Communications and Programs for Save the Harbor / Save the Bay. He is also CEO of Catalyst New Media Group, a Boston based communications consulting firm and a part time faculty member in public policy, marine science and management at Boston University. Bruce will share the story of the remarkable transformation of Boston Harbor and how its continuing work impacts the region’s economy, communities and ecosystem.

Bruce Berman and catch

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New Storm Drain to Winter Pond

Installed at Woodside Road Landing

The Winchester Department of Public Works, DPW, started digging to prepare for installing a new storm drain at Woodside Road on December 2.  On October 27, 2009, the Friends of Winter Pond donated $11,600 to the Town of Winchester for the purchase and installation of the new storm drain. Bob Conway, Town Engineer, presented a drawing with details about the drain at the John Clarke Memorial Lecture on October 14 at the Winchester Public Library. The drain will help filter contaminants running into the pond from the entire watershed area that flows into the drain, then into both Little and Big Winter Ponds. This new drain will replace the old drain that is no longer functioning efficiently and is expected to help preserve Winter Pond for future generations.

ON THE WATERFRONT AT WINTER POND

Join the Friends of Winter Pond

for a John Clarke Memorial Lecture

at the Winchester Public Library

Wednesday, October 14

at 7 pm

Come hear Bob Conway, Town Engineer, speak about ways to protect Winter Pond with updates on Pansy Patch development, construction around the pond, storm drains, catch basins, rare plant species concerns, hydro-raking, and treating the lily pads.

Open to the public, free admission, refreshments served.

For more info. call Barbara Copas @ 781-729-7179

  Friends of Winter Pond Gather at the

Annual FWP Regatta and BBQ

          Friends members gather at the annual regatta and BBQ

Tom, Victoria and William Hopcroft enjoy the day

           5 canoes of kids paddle out to begin the race

                                                                           Barbara Copas, president of FWP, awards the Commodore

                                                                                                   Challenge Cup to Jillian Alejo, Lizzy and Adam Reynolds

Over $1,700 raised at Mahoneys on June 17, 2009

 for the Friends of Winter Pond

Friends members, Prassede Calabi and Judie Muggia cover the booth outside Mahoneys on a sunny Wednesday.

Friends members, Prassede Calabi, Ann McGovern and (4th form left) Kate Reynolds

           Barbara Copas, president of FWP, helps clean                                Ann McGovern, former president of FWP,

                  up by the Landing on Woodside Road                                           cleans up by the roadside

Drain Marker Program Gets Underway . . .

The picture below covers the beginning of the program funded by the Friends of Winter Pond in May '09 to place markers on all drains emptying into Winchester's Winter Pond.  The markers will be placed by the Winchester Department of Public Works and urge people not to dump pollutants down the street drains.

FWP members (L - R) Al Muggia, President Barbara Copas, member Ann McGovern and Secretary Kate Reynolds, surround DPW worker Bud Wallinger, who will place one hundred drain markers on drains which empty into Winter Pond.  

Connect and Commit October 2008

Boy Scouts Clearing Brush  ^	Middle School Service Club
Youth Service Day 6_05
ENKA at the Pond	Bulletin Board Ladies