Shore Sweep is the one day each year that more garbage comes out of Lake Lanier than goes in. The Lake Lanier Association gathered 1,000 volunteer angels to comb the lake for all types of trash, flotsam, garbage, jetsam, junk, litter, refuse and unwanted material …
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Lake Lanier’s Shore Sweep FAQ
Lake Lanier Association’s Executive Director Joanna Cloud helped lakelanier.com compile Frequently Asked Questions about Shore Sweep 2012. Joanna and her cadre of Lovers of Lake Lanier make the lake better for us all. If you can pitch in for an hour or two on Saturday morning, September …
Lake Lanier Shore Sweep — 9-29-2012
Shore Sweep 2012 is Saturday, September 29th from 8 AM until 1 PM. That’s the day hundreds of volunteers will scour Lake Lanier for garbage, trash and junk to be thrown away at the lake’s marinas, Lake Lanier Islands, Clarks Bridge Park and at War Hill …
Taste of Gainesville Pictures
Only one thing could have improved Saturday night’s Taste of Gainesville: $100 bills falling from the sky. Perfect doesn’t adequately describe the evening. The combination of fabulous food, the world-renowned Olympic rowing venue on Lake Lanier, glorious weather and scads of fun people … added up to a better-than- …
Fun Stuff for the First Weekend of Autumn
Kiss summer goodbye and give autumn a big hug. Celebrate the end of too hot weather and seriously bad hair days. There are a million cool ways to have fun, but if you’re wondering what to do we have a few suggestions. Living Dead Dash …
Lake Lanier Water Levels
Lake Lanier was just about 10′ below full summer pool as of 7 AM, Monday, September 17, 2012. Thankfully, heavy rain in our region will help, but the US Drought Monitor indicates Hall County is in an area of moderate to severe drought, with portions of …
Lake Lanier Association’s Shore Sweep 2012
If you love Lake Lanier, you’re not alone. You’re invited to meet hundreds of others just like you at Shore Sweep 2012 — The Great Clean-Up — sponsored by the Lake Lanier Association (LLA). More than 1,000 LLA volunteers pitched in last year when Captain …
Dragon Boat Race Pictures
If anyone went to the Olympic Rowing Venue on Lake Lanier on Saturday, September 8th hoping to see the speedboat drag races, I hope they stayed to watch the Dragon Boat races anyway. Dragon Boat races are not merely multicultural events — like watching people from New …
Taste of Gainesville — Lake Lanier’s Favorite Feast
Forget football — are you ready for some feasting? You’re invited to join the Chattahoochee Cannibals (relax … it’s an “oldies” band) and other hungry folks for the 14th Annual Taste of Gainesville shindig. The Lake Lanier Rowing Club hosts this fabulous event to raise money …
The Mountain Music Festival at Vogel State Park on 9-8-12
One of the best times to visit Vogel State Park — 233 of North Georgia’s most beautiful acres in the mountains — will be on Saturday, October 8, 2012, from 10 AM until 5 PM. That’s the date for this year’s Mountain Music and Arts & Craft …