This year, RRC added a second booth to their usual single booth set up at Dunnellon's Boomtown Days Street Festival on April 11. It was perfect weather for the event!
One booth brought attention to the Rainbow River Conservation Cleanup to be held at the Rio Vista Community Beach Park, Saturday May 16th. The River Clean up is an annual event focused on a search and pick up trash mission for anyone that desires to participate. RRC President, Jerry Rogers, has organized this event for forty-one years. Thousands of pounds of trash have been pulled from the Rainbow River during these river clean up events. A picnic and awards presentation program follows the clean up effort by participants. Click here for details about the May 16, 2026 River Clean Up and how you can participate.
The second RRC Boomtown booth was titled the "Rainbow River Conservation Education Station". Retired Dunnellon High School teacher Jan Cubbage and her assistant Debbie Dailey invited kids of all ages to play a trivia game that asked questions about the Rainbow River's geology, otters, turtles, alligators, birds and fish. 110 kids and adults participated in the "Rainbow River Kid's Trivia Quiz". The RRC Education Station Trivia Game resulted in every player winning a prize and learning some interesting aspect of the Rainbow River including exotic species and pollution problems.
View WCJB's video and article about the 2026 Boomtown Days
here.
Photos below courtesy of Fran Siegfried.
