Lee County Receives 2007 Alabama Earth Team Outstanding Group and Individual Awards

Lee County received two Alabama Earth Team Awards in 2007. The Lee County Water Festival Earth Team Volunteer Group won the Alabama Earth Team Outstanding Group award and Billy Hubbard earned the Individual Earth Team Volunteer award. The awards were presented at the Alabama Association of Conservation District’s 65 Annual Meeting in Orange Beach, Alabama by Rodney K. Goode (NRCS Urban Conservationist and Alabama NRCS Earth Team Coordinator). The winners of the 2007 Alabama Earth Team Awards goes hand-in-hand. Billy Hubbard won the honor of Outstanding Earth Team Volunteer and she works tirelessly as a member of the Alabama Earth Team Group Award winner, the Annual Lee County Water Festival. Billy has been an Earth Team Volunteer in the Lee County NRCS/SWCD field office since May 2003.

In 2007, over 1,900 4th grade students and their teachers attend the Lee County Water Festival. The mission of the Lee County Water Festival is to educate students and their families about all aspects of surface water and groundwater and other related natural resources (such as wetlands, forestry, wildlife and much more) and to instill in them a general environmental awareness and stewardship ethic.

Billie helps to get supplies together for the Water Festival by packing over 2,000 packets of water cycle beads and cutting the leather cord used to put the bracelets together. She has already started working on putting the packets together for the 2008 Water Festival where over 2,000 4th grade students and their teachers are expected to attend at Haley Center on the Auburn University Campus May 8th & 9th, 2008.

Billie not only volunteers for the Lee County Earth Team Water Festival Group but also volunteers in the community. At the East Alabama Medical Center she serves on the Pink Lady Auxiliary, is a prevention specialist with Family Children Services; volunteers for the Alabama Cooperative Extension System after serving as a 4-H Leader in public schools; volunteers at the Boys & Girls Club of Auburn, and Auburn and Joyland Day Care Centers where she is affectionately called "Mother Hubbard." She serves as secretary to the dean of the Auburn District Congress of Education and is an active member of Pleasantview Baptist Church in Salem where she writes and submits religious articles to news papers.

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