<p> AGENDA Blue Spring Working Group</p><p>A Public Forum for Spring Protection & Restoration All Are Welcome</p><p>Wednesday, December 14, 2011 1:30 – 4:30 In downtown DeLand at Volusia County’s Historic Courthouse – Room 204 125 W. New York Avenue (Parking directions below)</p><p>1:30 Welcome Carol Lippincott – Coordinator*, Blue Spring Working Group </p><p>1:45 Introductions </p><p>2:00 Still Searching for the Soul of Florida A photographic essay presented by Florida landscape and wildlife photographer John Moran </p><p>3:00 Guiding the Blue Spring Working Group in 2012 Chairperson - New Steering Committee </p><p>3:35 How Far We Have Come Jacques Cousteau’s Forgotten Mermaids of Blue Spring </p><p>4:15 Wrap Up </p><p>4:30 Adjourn Next meeting to be scheduled by the new Steering Committee </p><p>****************************************************************************************</p><p>* Coordination of this meeting of the Blue Spring Working Group and formation of its new Steering Committee is funded by the WALTER AND BETTY BOARDMAN FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, which is associated with the University of Central Florida. </p><p>The Boardman Foundation supports projects such as the Blue Spring Working Group that create institutional partnerships, volunteer efforts, and cooperative ventures to protect and improve the environment and natural systems in Volusia County. </p><p>****************************************************************************************</p><p>For more information, contact the Coordinator of the Blue Spring Working Group, Dr. Carol Lippincott of Floridia LLC, at [email protected] or 352-377-8693. FLORIDIA LLC - Helping Floridians to protect & restore natural Florida and its waters. DIRECTIONS and PARKING BLUE SPRING WORKING GROUP </p><p>Volusia County Historic Courthouse (second floor, room 204) 125 W. New York Avenue DeLand, FL 32720 </p><p>Click here for map to meeting location </p><p>PARK for free in the county employee parking lot one block away from the Historic Courthouse at the southwest corner of N. Florida Ave. and W. Rich Avenue, next to the Athens Theater.  From Highway 17/92 = Woodland Blvd., turn west onto W. Rich Avenue.  Cross the intersection of N. Florida and then turn left into the parking lot.  Look for the sign that says “Volusia County Employee Parking – County Business Only” and park there.  The Historic Courthouse is the building with the large greenish rotunda one block away to the southeast. The 100-square mile “springshed” where most of the water in Blue Spring comes from most of the time. </p>