Well we here at the Turtle Patrol appreciate all the help we get from our volunteers. Many of them spend hours in the field watching for turtles, monitoring females while they lay, and walk with us in the fall to find hatchlings to get to appropriate water bodies. We also have had volunteers from Gracenote come out and do some site remediation. The ladies from AA Munro Insurance built nest protectors for us. So not all of our volunteers are "in the field".
Here is a bit of a story of one of my favourite volunteers: Ellen Turbitt she helps out by knitting.
She spends at least some of her time in her busy schedule knitting little turtles for us here at the Turtle Patrol so that we make provide them to folks who provide us with donations. She has been doing a pretty good job so far. I think she has knit 16 or 17 of these wonderful little "Thank Yous".
She is very happy that she has received a $25 donation for this beauty.
This is a "custom" ordered unit that has been requested from an individual at AA Munro insurance. Andrew wanted something "different" and this is what he is receiving.
We hope we can keep her active knitting and providing our Thank You gifts because that means we have lots of folks to thank for their help--so we can help the turtles. Of course every now and then the turtles want to thank Ellen for their existence and they provide her with little turtle hugs.
Just like other turtles, when the time is right, there is little they like better than a little basking in the sunlight.
I should let you know that Ellen is my mom, and that is why she is my favourite volunteer!
Should anyone out there like a little Thank You memento from the Turtle Patrol all it takes is a little donation :)
Yours in Turtling
Paul T
