The Lake Hartwell Marketing Alliance is putting together an exhibit to document the creation of Lake Hartwell and to celebrate it's 50th year.year. There is according to the "independent mail" going to be an historian at the Hart County and Anderson County libraries on January 14th and January 21st consecutively. they will apparently be collecting documents, photos and newspaper clippings to be scanned for use in a traveling historic art exhibition commemorating the Hartwell Lake Project's 50th anniversary. The say they have the backing of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, so the exhibit should include some interesting items. It should be traveling to venues in the six South Carolina and Georgia counties surrounding Hartwell Lake - Anderson, Oconee, Pickens, Hart, Franklin and Stephens.Pilot Whale Murdered in cold blood
MSN today reported that a Pilot Whale was found starving to death in New Jersey. Apparently, the poor sea creature had been shot in the jaw by a .30 caliber rifle causing enough infection that the animal could not eat and therefore died of starvation. The wound according to the report had partially closed over, indicating that the animal had been shot as long as a month prior to it's untimely death; which also means that it could have been shot anywhere up and down the eastern seaboard. $10,000 is being put up by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and $2,500 by The Humane Society of the United States as a reward for capture of the culprit. Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd's founder was quoted as saying, "Rewards are a deterrent because people know there is a financial incentive"... to turn in the culprit. Anyone having info should contact Matt Gilmore, a special agent with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, at (732) 280-6490 or NOAA's (800) 853-1964 hotline. Callers may remain anonymous. Whales are among the species protected by the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act. Violators can be fined up to $100,000 and sent to prison for a year.