Meeting schedule

City of Bellbrook February Meeting Schedule:

■ Feb. 11, 7 p.m. — City Council Regular Meeting

■ Feb. 19, 6:15 p.m. — Board of Zoning Appeals

■ Feb. 25, 7 p.m. — City Council Regular Meeting

All meetings will be held in Council Chambers, 15 E. Franklin St.

Meeting times are subject to change. Please visit www.cityofbellbrook.org for the current meeting schedule.

Pete Savard, assistant professor of nursing, used stand-up paddleboards to raise awareness and financial support this summer for clean water projects overseas through his Global Water Consortium. Now, he has the opportunity to speak about the experience and its purpose at the Wright State University Adventure Summit Speaker Series.

Savard will be one of four featured speakers during the summit, held in the WSU Student Union on Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. He will share about paddling down the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania for 30 straight days during summer 2018 as a fundraiser — called SUP4WATER — for GWC. The event is free and no preregistration is required.

The Adventure Summit celebrates the spirit of outdoor adventure. It is the area’s premier outdoor adventure exposition and will focus attention on Dayton as the Outdoor Adventure Capital of the Midwest. The summit is open to outdoor enthusiasts of all ages and interest levels.

Savard founded GWC in 2014 to start mobile, self-sustaining clean water projects around the world. Each one of GWC’s projects can provide 26,316 gallons of clean water in a single day, enough water for 33,333 people to drink.

“In India and Kenya, 126,540 children died due to unclean water during those 30 days we paddled. We want to raise at least one dollar for every one of those children,” explained Savard.

Savard and his team rode SUPs on the Susquehanna, carrying the same water equipment that GWC uses for clean water projects in developing countries. Their goal? Demonstrate that this equipment can be easily transported to remote locations and raise awareness and support for GWC’s work.

The Susquehanna SUP team included Savard; Ainsley Savard, Pete’s daughter; Cassie Rakowski, Cedarville nursing student; Lindsey Wiseman and Jared Mitchell, friends of Savard’s; Tristan Devlin, a film student at Wright State University, who photographed and took video of the team from a canoe; Emily DeClerico, a 2018 Cedarville nursing alumna; and J.T. Tomlin, another 2018 alumnus who drove the support truck all month.

For more information, visit www.cedarville.edu.