Bernie Fowler Wade-In
19th Annual Broomes Island Wade-In with Senator Fowler and Friends
Broomes Island, Calvert County (June 11, 2006) -- For the 19th time former Maryland Senator and Champion for the Patuxent River, Bernie Fowler, along with several hundred friends, neighbors, watermen, politicians and curious onlookers tested the waters of the river to see if it had improved over the previous year.
Senator Fowler has become well known throughout the land for his unending desire and passion to 'bring back the river' to its former glory. Only a couple decades ago Bernie first walked into the river, and using his unscientific but useful method of measurement, could see his white sneakers while standing chest deep in the river. Yesterday he could see barely 27" deep.
Delegate Sue Kullen and Maryland Senator Roy Dyson sponsored a bill to help improve the Patuxent and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay but the 2006 bill (HB1588) was "watered down" in the end and has little teeth. At the Sunday wade-in President of the Maryland Senate Mike Miller promised to make sure the "Bernie Bill," as it has become known, will pass both House and Senate in 2007 to help improve the River and the Bay.
Read the Washington Post Article, "A River's Plight, Felt Firsthand" (June 15, 2006).
Read the Southern Maryland Newspaper On-line Article: "Fowler Pondering Patuxent River Action" (June 14, 2006)
Delegate Sue Kullen (left) joins Former Senator Bernie Fowler (center with flag in his hat) and Gubernatorial Candidate Martin O'Malley and Doug Duncan. (Photo: Katherine Frey -- The Washington Post)
Darcy Whelan is congratulated by Delegate Sue Kullen for her History Fair project on the life and history of Senator Bernie Fowler (center) and the Patuxent River.
Delegate Sue Kullen joins Dr. Kelly Clark of Morgan State Estuarine Research Center (left), folk-song hero Tom Wisner and Baltimore Mayor and Maryland Governor candidate Martin O'Malley in Broomes Island.
Kullen For Calvert, Guffrie M. Smith, Jr., Treasurer
