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Spring 2009 – This year's Walkathon is scheduled for Monday, May
18, 2009 (rain date May 19th)
Winter 2009 – Funds have been procured to replace the covered walkway
which was washed away in the April 2007 storm. Five windows are scheduled to be
replaced in the keepers cottage.
Summer 2008 – Lighthouse Kids feel proud and relieved that they
are able to use the new marine railway with hand operated winch constructed by Pickering
Marine of Portsmouth NH in the summer of 2007, and largely paid for with funds raised
by Lighthouse Kids.
May 2008 - Fuller Foundation Awards $3,500.00 Grant. The
Fuller Foundation generously donated money to be used for educational programs in
local schools.
Summer 2008
New England Lighthouse Lovers (NELL) Award Grant to Lighthouse Kids
New England lighthouse Lovers is a nonprofit group dedicated to preserving New England's
Lighthouses. NELL has generously donated $5,200.00 to Lighthouse Kids. These funds
are earmarked to replace several old and rotting windows in the keeper's cottage.
Windows are scheduled to be replaced in the spring of 2009.
May 13, 2008 - Lighthouse Kids Receive Preservation Award.
At the Annual Awards Ceremony of the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance, Lighthouse
Kids received a 2008 Preservation Achievement Award for outstanding education, advocacy
and restoration of White Island Lighthouse.
The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance enthusiastically recognized this project,
that they believe gives real hope for our future in preservation as a society. The
Alliance goes on to say:
"Guided by recommendations made by preservation architects and lighthouse experts,
the Lighthouse Kids have partnered with the N.H. Division of Parks and Recreation
of the N.H. Department of Resources and Economic Development, a state agency that
is administratively responsible for the lighthouse, to conserve the damage tower
under difficult logistical conditions and under conservation constraints posed by
the presence of the roseate tern, an endangered species. Undeterred by further damage
caused by a severe coastal storm in April 2007, the Lighthouse Kids have continued
to raise funds to repair the tower a second time, to assist in the rehabilitation
of the light keeper's cottage, and to build a marine landing on the island."
Fall 2007 – New Hampshire Glass of Portsmouth NH repairs tower
window damaged in April storm.
April 19th, 2007 - the Patriot's Day ocean storm washed away the
covered walkway, solar panels to operate the light and the foghorn. The United States
Coast Guard replaced the solar panels and foghorn, since they remain responsible
for maintaining the aid to navigation.
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