Japanese knotweed spreads quickly to form dense thickets that prevents the growth of native vegetation and greatly alters natural ecosystems. Friends of the Cheat can use more volunteers to help continue our effort of eradicating knotweed in the watershed. If interested in helping this summersend an email to foc@cheat.org

Owner: Janet Lenox

Friends of the Cheat would like to send out a special Thank-you to all students that participated in our 2011 Drawing Contest. We were overwhelmed with 102 creative entries and having to choose just one from each of the 4 grade categories. As all grades were not represented, and we had a large percentage of drawings from 5th & 6th grade students, we added an additional winner from those grades. We chose one winner from the following grade levels: 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7-8th Grade.

Owner: Janet Lenox

Friends of the Cheat would like to send out a special Thank-you to all students that participated in our 2012 drawing contest. A record breaking 147 drawings were entered in this year's contest. As all grades were not represented,and we had an abundance of entries from both the 3rd-4th and the 5th-6th grade levels, we added an additional winner in both these contest grade categories. The winners all recieved two passes to the 18th Annual Cheat River festival on May 5th , 2012 and a watershed token made by Gail Anderson of Clay Art by Gail

Owner: Janet Lenox