Puntledge Park is the place to be on Saturday, September 20, for Family Watershed Day.

This annual event - running from 10am to 3pm - celebrates the work of local organizations, highlights stewardship and restoration projects, and helps build connections to the waterways of the Comox Valley.

Activities will include guided walks of Puntledge Park, demonstrations and information from local groups, and kids activities including face painting, book readings, watercolour painting, music and a family scavenger hunt.

Attendees will learn about restoration initiatives, land protection projects, research and monitoring programs, salmon enhancement, source to tap drinking water education, the science of watershed protection, and cool volunteer opportunities.

This year's event also features a day-long participatory art project facilitated by Juliana Bedoya of “Plants as Teachers” all about how we are Connected by Water.

Participating organizations include Project Watershed, Cumberland Community Forest Society, Beaufort Watershed Stewards, Comox Valley Regional District (Watershed Protection), Comox Valley Naturalists Society, Millard Piercy Watershed Stewards, Tsolum River Restoration Society, Comox Valley Land Trust and Conservation Partnership, Courtenay Youth Climate Corps BC, Morrison Creek Streamkeepers, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and Little River Enhancement Society.

Family Watershed Day aims to build connections between residents of all ages and the special community organizations who care for our watershed in many ways.

Get details at Cumberland Community Forest Society.