Spring 2010 -This year's Walkathon is scheduled for Tuesday, May 18, 2010 (rain date Wednesday, May 19th)
If you would like to help or participate, please contact Sue Reynolds at uncleoscar@comcast.net or 603-978-2097.
Adult Friends of Lighthouse Kids sponsor an Isles of Shoals/Lighthouse Tour on the Motor Vessel Granite State, departing Rye Harbor on June 4th at 6:30pm., 2+hrs. (rain date â€" Thursday, June 10)
Cost: $25 per person includes hors d’oeuvres. Cash Bar
For Reservations Call Granite State Whale Watch at (603) 964-5545 or go online to www.granitestatewhalewatch.com
Winter 2009-2010 -  Plans to begin a stewardship program in the summer months on White Island were initiated.
Rye Elementary School in Rye NH became involved in the Lighthouse Kids Project.
Summer 2009 - Windows in the keeper's cottage were replaced and storm windows were installed.  Roof leaks around chimneys were repaired.  The keeper's cottage is now weather tight!  Yeah!!  Footings for the replacement of the historic covered walkway were built.
Winter 2009 â€" Federal funds were  procured to replace the covered walkway which was washed away in the April 2007 storm.
Summer 2008 â€" Lighthouse Kids feel proud and relieved that they are able to use the new marine railway with hand operated winch constructed by Pickering Marine of Portsmouth NH in the summer of 2007, and largely paid for with funds raised by Lighthouse Kids.
New England Lighthouse Lovers (NELL) Award Grant to Lighthouse Kids
New England lighthouse Lovers is a nonprofit group dedicated to preserving New England's Lighthouses. NELL has generously donated $5,200.00 to Lighthouse Kids. These funds are earmarked to replace several old and rotting windows in the keeper's cottage.
Windows are scheduled to be replaced in the spring of 2009.
May 2008 -  Fuller Foundation Awards $3,500.00 Grant. The Fuller Foundation generously donated money to be used for educational programs in local schools.
May 13, 2008 - Lighthouse Kids Receive Preservation Award.  At the Annual Awards Ceremony of the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance, Lighthouse Kids received a 2008 Preservation Achievement Award for outstanding education, advocacy and restoration of White Island Lighthouse.
The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance enthusiastically recognized this project, that they believe gives real hope for our future in preservation as a society. The Alliance goes on to say:
"Guided by recommendations made by preservation architects and lighthouse experts, the Lighthouse Kids have partnered with the N.H. Division of Parks and Recreation of the N.H. Department of Resources and Economic Development, a state agency that is administratively responsible for the lighthouse, to conserve the damage tower under difficult logistical conditions and under conservation constraints posed by the presence of the roseate tern, an endangered species. Undeterred by further damage caused by a severe coastal storm in April 2007, the Lighthouse Kids have continued to raise funds to repair the tower a second time, to assist in the rehabilitation of the light keeper's cottage, and to build a marine landing on the island."
Fall 2007 â€" New Hampshire Glass of Portsmouth NH repairs tower window damaged in April storm.
April 19th, 2007 - the Patriot's Day ocean storm washed away the covered walkway, solar panels to operate the light and the foghorn. The United States Coast Guard replaced the solar panels and foghorn, since they remain responsible for maintaining the aid to navigation.