by Jim Lloyd | Sep 17, 2022 | Event Info, Preparation
We are a week away and the members of the Fredericksburg-Rappahannock Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, Inc., have placed the Dog Mart Direction signs in locations on the roads near the venue. This signals that we are within a week of the event next...
by Jim Lloyd | Sep 18, 2021 | Dog Mart Feature, Preparation
Today, the chapter’s train maintenance crew reassembled the chapter barrel train and readied it for use at next week’s Dog Mart. It has a fresh coat of paint and new wheels for the passenger cars. The steam boiler was fired up today and the locomotive runs...
by Jim Lloyd | Sep 17, 2021 | Preparation
Last Saturday, a group of seven chapter volunteers split into two groups and deployed four Dog mart banners in the nearby neighborhood in Spotsylvania. Here is a sign that one of the crews placed near the entrance to Orange Plank Road along with the crew that emplaced...
by Dominique | Jul 7, 2021 | Preparation
Today we had an enthusiastic group of people meet at the chapter to further plan the Dog Mart scheduled for September 25th. We discussed tasks and digital media that make the task assignments and communications easier for participants. The assembly of the barrel train...
