Discover The Islands
& Explore the Beach With Save the Harbor/Save the Bay
Save
the Harbor will host 6 free trips to
Spectacle Island for kids and families in August.
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| Beat the heat and discover your park on one of Save the Harbor’s 6 free trips to Spectacle Island this August. |
This summer has been a record breaker, with temperatures
soaring into the 90s beginning on Memorial Day. Greater Boston’s youth
development and community groups looking for creative ways to keep cool have
turned to Save the Harbor/Save the Bay’s free youth environmental education
programs for relief in record numbers.
To help the region’s families beat the heat and explore and enjoy the
Boston Harbor Islands State and National Park, Save the Harbor is opening up
space on 6 free All Access Boston Harbor trips to Spectacle Island for kids and
families this August.
These free island adventures will
take place on August 16, 17, and 18,
and again on August 23, 24, and 25
aboard Bay State Cruise Company’s Provincetown II, which boards at 10:15 for a
10:30 departure from the World Trade Center dock and returns at 3:00. (Reservations
are required. Please see below for details.)
“With a wonderful island park and some of the cleanest urban
beaches in the nation, Boston Harbor is a spectacular urban natural resource
for the region’s kids and families,” said Patty
Foley, President of the Boston based harbor advocacy organization, which is
celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year. “Sharing them with the
public with free events and programs is at the heart of our mission and a key
to our policy success.”
Save the Harbor runs
free youth and beach programs that will connect 30,000 youth and teens from
scores of area youth development and community organizations to Boston Harbor
and the Boston Harbor Island State and National Park this summer. They also
provide free programs at 8 sites on Boston Harbor and at 70 free Better Beaches Program events on the
region’s public beaches with the support of DCR.
Save the Harbor’s All
Access Boston Harbor program offers free trips to the Boston Harbor Islands
for youth development and community groups three days each week during July and
August aboard Bay State Cruise Company’s flagship Provincetown II, which can easily
accommodate 500 passengers. If you would like to arrange a trip for your group,
please email gaylord@savetheharbor.org
Their Boston Harbor
Explorers @ DCR’s Carson Beach offers youth development and community
groups free environmental exploration, youth enrichment and healthy outdoor
activities including aquatics, fishing and clamming, kayak and paddleboard
lessons, Arts on the Shore and Storytelling by the Sea at the
McCormack Bathhouse at DCR’s Carson Beach in South Boston. If you would like to
arrange a field trip for your group to the cleanest urban beach in the nation,
visit http://www.blog.savetheharbor.org/2016/06/boston-harbor-explorers-dcrs-carson.html
To reserve space for your free trip to Spectacle Island, please send
your name, contact number, the day you plan to join us and the number of spaces
you would like to reserve to gaylord@savetheharbor.org . You will receive an email confirming
your reservations. Please note that a parent or adult guardian must accompany
all youth and teens.
Save the
Harbor's free youth environmental education and family programs are made
possible with Leadership Grants from Bay State Cruise Company, Blue
Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, The Boston Foundation, The Coca-Cola Foundation,
Distrigas/ENGIE.
Save the
Harbor is grateful for Partnership Grants from Forrest Berkley & Marcie Tyre
Berkley, The Clowes Fund, Comcast, Eastern Salt Company, Inc., Fan Pier - The
Fallon Company, John Hancock Financial Services Inc., Kershaw Foundation -
Cheers for Children, Mass Environmental Trust, Mass Humanities, Massachusetts
Bay Lines, Massachusetts Port Authority, Massachusetts Water Resources
Authority, P&G Gillette, William E. & Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable
Trust, Vertex, Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation, The Yawkey Foundation.
Save the
Harbor also appreciates funding support from Arbella Insurance Group Charitable Foundation, Blue Hills Bank
Foundation, Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, BOMA, Boston Properties - Atlantic Wharf,
Camp Harbor View Foundation, Clipper Ship, Foundation, Inc., The Daily Catch
Seaport, Elizabeth Elser Doolittle Charitable Trust, Emera Inc., Paul &
Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation, Thomas & Lucinda Foley, The HYM
Investment Group, LLC, Lovett-Woodsum Foundation, Massachusetts Convention
Center Authority, National Grid Foundation, The Reebok Foundation, RMR Real
Estate Services, Lawrence J. & Anne Rubenstein Foundation, Skanska, South
Boston Community Development Foundation, Spectra Energy, Tishman Speyer.
Save the Harbor would also like
to thank our supporters 3A
Marine Service, AP Staffing, Andus Baker & Rowan Murphy Family Fund, Bay
State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation, Andrew J. Calamare & Marianne
Connolly, Circle Furniture, The Fuller Foundation, Inc., Legal Sea Foods, Miss
Wallace M. Leonard Foundation, Sherry & Alan Leventhal Family Foundation, George
Lewis - Haven Trust, Liberty Bay Credit Union, Mass Bay Credit Union, National
Park Service, Nicholson Foundation, Randy Peeler & Kate Kellogg, Red Sox
Foundation, Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation, Storm Duds, Matthew J. &
Gilda F. Strazzula Foundation, TD Bank Charitable Foundation, UDR, Kyle &
Sara Warwick, Matthew Whitlock & Penny & Neal.
Special
thanks to the hundreds of individual donors and to our partners at the
Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Metropolitan Beaches Commission,
the Boston Centers for Youth and Families and the YMCA of Greater Boston for
their support.
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