Dear Friends of the D and R Canal Watch,
    We urge you to attend our Annual Meeting
 Sunday, June 12 at 2:00 p.m.

PICK-UP TRUCK NEEDED:
To move chairs into the Mule Tenders Barracks, we request the use of a pick-up truck to meet us at the Griggstown Fire House on Canal Road at noon. If you can help with this, please call Bob Barth at 201-401-3121.
 
 D and R CANAL WATER TRAIL IMAGINED
CANAL WATCH ANNUAL MEETING, SUNDAY,
JUNE 12, 2:00 P.M.

     Don Griffin, from the Mohawk Canoe Club, and Barbara Ross, Canal Watch vice president, will lead the audience on a whirlwind paddle down the D and R Canal of the future.
     On the feeder canal they will put in at Bulls Island and take out at Ewing Township's Lower Ferry Road, then jump to the main canal and paddle from Cherry Tree Lane in Lawrence Township to Franklin Township's DeMott Lane.  
     Proposed new trailheads and bridge, portage, launch, and signage improvements will be highlighted, with glimpses of the countryside, communities, and adjacent waterways along the canal's route.
     This program is designed to introduce the public to a proposed D and R Canal Water Trail and to gather suggestions and comments before the plan is presented to the several regulatory agencies that maintain jurisdiction over the canal. It is important that paddlers and other recreational users have a stake in this exciting new venture.
     Following the PowerPoint presentation, those interested are encouraged to remain for an in-depth discussion about the future of the canal state park, fundraising, the 5K run, and other events. The D and R Canal Watch is seizing this opportunity and seeking new ideas. Those members interested in volunteering or otherwise participating in the future of the Canal Watch are especially urged to attend.
     Sunday, June 12 at 2:00 p.m. in the Muletenders Barracks,
4 Griggstown Causeway, in the Griggstown section of Franklin Township, between River Road and Canal Road. The Barracks is the long building on the west side of the canal. (For GPS, use Princeton as the town, even though it's nowhere near Princeton.)

D and R Canal Watch
      Our Mission: To protect, maintain, and promote the recreational, historical, aesthetic, and environmental qualities of the Delaware & Raritan Canal State Park and its environs, to assist and to support regional, state, local, and private enterprise efforts that contribute to this goal, and to investigate the restoration of the canal to through navigation.
D and R Canal Watch, 214 North Bridge Street, Somerville, NJ 08876