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2025 Spring Work Weekend at Stone Laboratory

April 11, 2025 – The Friends of Stone Lab (FOSL) Spring Work Weekend at Stone Lab is scheduled for April 11-13, 2025

NOTE This event occurs in the past

New volunteers are welcome!

Bring your work gloves and help spruce up Stone Lab for the upcoming season at the annual Friends of Stone Lab (FOSL) Spring Work Weekend April 11-13, 2025. Participants are invited to arrive Friday night and stay until Sunday morning or simply come for the day on Saturday. There’s plenty of cleaning, organizing, carrying, painting, moving and digging to do!

Plan to take the 5:30, 6:30 or 7:30 p.m. ferry from the mainland ($18 per adult round-trip). Please visit the Miller Ferry website for possible cancellations before leaving home.

  • Friday, April 11, 2025

    A Stone Lab van will meet volunteers at the Miller Ferry South Bass Island dock for ferries that leave Catawba at 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.

    6:30 p.m. Dinner, room assignments and discussion of job duties. Evening on your own.

  • Saturday, April 12, 2025

    A Stone Lab van will meet volunteers at the Miller Ferry South Bass Island dock for ferries that leave Catawba at 8:30 and 9:30 a.m.

    8:30 a.m. Breakfast and dispersal to job locations

    12 p.m. Lunch break (box lunch will be handed out at breakfast)

    4:45 p.m. Group photo

    5 p.m. Dinner, evening on your own

  • Sunday, April 13, 2025

    Wrap Up

    8:30 a.m. Breakfast

    By 10 a.m. Van ride to the ferry dock

Please RSVP below to help us with event planning and details. Registration is not final until you receive confirmation from a staff member. Registration is required even if you arrange accommodations and meals elsewhere. In an effort to create opportunities for new volunteers, we are limiting registrations to two per family.


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Gear to Bring

April weather on Gibraltar is unpredictable and often cold, so check the weather forecast and dress accordingly in clothes that can get dirty. If it rains, we’ll still be working, which makes rain gear a must. Meals will be provided, Please bring toiletries. Rooms may not be heated. Housing is dormitory-style, including bunk beds.

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