My name is Chelsea Moosa, and I am a part of the GoGreen573 team. I just wanted to share with you an idea we have for one of our "webisodes" which should be making their debut sometime in the very near future! One of our ideas has been to profile the Missouri River Relief. This is a volunteer based program that holds river clean ups and educational event for the Missouri River. It's important to our group and project that we not only focus on businesses around Columbia but also non-profit organizations such as the Missouri River Relief.
To give you a bit of background, this group was started in Easley, MO in 2001. The organization has grown a huge amount since then and has had 46 Missouri River clean ups. That takes a lot of volunteer time, energy, and effort all done by Missourians! There is a lot of waste out there, and we don't want it flowing into our rivers, lakes, and streams. Members and volunteers of this group do different things, but one of them is going out on row boats and actually going out on the water to clean up the river! I don't know about you guys, but that sounds more like fun than work to me. The Missouri River Relief program has more than 10 thousand volunteers, and it's a program that GoGreen573 wants to share with you.
Our idea is to talk to members of the group and see if they can give us more insight into the program. We also want to participate in a river clean up and put in our efforts to help! We think this would be a great program to profile for our project, and would really help the community! I am in the process of contacting members of the group and hopefully we can get the ball rolling soon! For more information you can check out the Missouri River Relief website:
http://www.riverrelief.org
Until next time, thanks for your support!
Remember 573, GO GREEN!
More soon,
Chelsea
Hi Chelsea -
ReplyDeleteCame across this post as I was searching for another article.
Feel free to give us a call: 573.289.2077.
Our season is winding down right now (back to the office to catch up). But next week, Wed. the 21, we are taking a group of Forest Ecology students out for a field trip on the river if you want to tag along. I think we have space.
Talk to you soon,
Steve Schnarr
Missouri River Relief
Chelsea -
ReplyDeleteI am sorry but I've lost your phone number!
We are doing this field trip on the river tomorrow (wed. Oct 21). We are meeting the students around 12:30 at Cooper's Landing (www.cooperslanding.net for directions).
You are welcome to join us, but please do give me a call to check in when you get this. my number is 573.289.2077
thanks,
steve schnarr
missouri river relief