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2025 DPA Photo Contest

4/29/2025

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The DPA is sponsoring the third annual Photo Contest.

Photos should be submitted by email to Trish Gedar ([email protected]) by October 1, 2025 and the winners will be announced at the DPA Fall Annual Meeting on October 26, 2025.

Please one submission per person. Categories include: Scenery, Wildlife, People, Recreation, Sunrise/Sunset. There will also be a category for photographers younger than 16. Be sure to include your full name and category in the email that includes the photo. No Fun Run photos please.
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Questions can be directed to: Ann Drouilhet ([email protected])
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FUN RUN FUNDRAISING: SEEKING VOLUNTEERs

4/29/2025

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Seeking four volunteers to invite area businesses to be sponsors of the 2025 Annual Fun Run.

We have an outreach list of corporations to share. ​If interested, please contact Linda Smith. email: 
[email protected], phone: 508-545-2089 5-8pm 7d/w
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2025 DPA Spring meeting and dinner Sunday, 4/27, 5-7pm

4/24/2025

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Please join us for our semiannual DPA spring meeting and dinner this Sunday, April 27, 2025 from 5pm to around 7pm. It will be at the Wayland Senior Center. You can also join us by zoom.

Members will be voting on 2 items: Slate of candidates for the 2025-26 year and the new By-Laws. Everyone is invited to attend this meeting but only members can vote (you can join the DPA at the meeting). If you have a candidate in mind, we will be taking nominations from the floor. A copy of the latest by-laws is available below.


Agenda:
If you have anything you want to add to the agenda, please reply to [email protected] 
​and get on the schedule. 

- Weed Mgt /Summer activity report
- Review of By-laws
- Treasurers report- introduce new treasurer Geoff Gardner
- Elections
- DPA committees- identifying new ones and getting volunteers (fundraising is a new one)
- Fun Run planning 
- Water protection- PFA's, salt, dumping, aquatic life
- SWQ report on Water Quality
- Social Media and website activity
- 3rd annual photo contest
- Mansion Beach Restoration
- 2025 Social Events calendar
- Other/new business
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2025 WINTER SOCIAL - Sat FEb 8th, 2-5pm @ MANSION BEACH

1/11/2025

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2024 DPA Fall Dinner meeting Sunday Oct. 27 from 5-7'ish

10/14/2024

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Please join us for the DPA Fall dinner meeting at the Senior Center in the Wayland Town Building on Sunday, Oct 27 from 5-7pm altho we sometimes go til 7:30.

We will announce the winners of the 2nd annual photo contest, discuss the harvester season and how to measure its successes or failures, recap the summer and fall events, and enjoy a slideshow of our beautiful pond.


We will be setting up a zoom link for those who cannot attend in person. Stay tuned. 
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2024 Dudley Pond Fun Run - Oct 6

8/9/2024

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26th Dudley Pond 5k Run, Walk and Kids Race
​Sunday, October 6, 2024

Sign up here


Local Businesses: Help the Dudley Pond Association preserve and protect the Dudley Pond watershed by sponsoring our 26th Dudley Pond Run, Walk & Kids Race. Visit our Sponsorship page.

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2024 Dudley Pond BAND ON A BOAT  - July 13

5/26/2024

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Band on a Boat, Sat.July 13 from 4-6pm, featuring the Dirty Water Brass Band,  The boat will play a few tunes at Mansion Beach starting at 4pm and will circumnavigate the pond and return to Mansion Beach around 6. Please join us on land or by boat! No rain date.
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2024 Upcoming events

5/26/2024

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Band on a Boat- July 13

Annual DPA Fun Run - Oct. 6

DPA Fall meeting - Oct. 27

Music on the Pond: Popup events throughout the summer
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Dudley Pond Report and Survey

5/25/2024

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The DPA commissioned an extensive report by Aquatic Restoration Consulting LLC  (ARC) in Sept. 2020 which described the state of the pond then - which is still accurate- and provides short and long term recommendations. Click here to see the report.
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    Dudley Pond Association
    P.O. Box 5114
    Wayland, MA 01778-4137
    (508) 655-1923
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