SierraScape March 2013 - August 2013
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by Gloria Broderick
Calendars and Merchandise Chair

Missouri's Annual Trash Bash is coming on March 23. Registration begins at 8:30 am.

The Annual Confluence Trash Bash is a large scale river clean up event to promote cleaner waterways and to encourage the community to work together to make the St. Louis area a better place to live. Groups of volunteers will depart from a number of locations, the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, Creve Coeur Park, and two other places in North County to clean local streams & neighborhoods. All groups will then return to their starting location for a free lunch and celebration. Prizes will be awarded for the most interesting trash finds. In the last 3 years alone, The Confluence Trash Bash has involved over 1,606 volunteers and has picked up over 61 tons of trash and scrap out of streams and neighborhoods! We are working on plans now so come join the meetings at Great Rivers Greenway at 6174 A. Delmar 63112. We hope that you will join us in making a difference.

The river is low so we will be able to pick farther down the banks than usual. We could use strong bank climbers to pull out big items.

WISH LIST:

A bobcat for heavy lifting, sturdy water proof gloves, water and soda, lunch for registration sites, funds to cover the cost of disposing of over 500 tires, nice prizes and thank you gifts for strange trash and hard workers, vans to transport groups to pick sites after registering, buckets to carry trash (plastic bags don't last), and tough 55 gallon trash bags. We would also appreciate any connections to publications or news organizations that could help get the word out.

Go here for liability form: behrmann.wufoo.com/forms/5th-annual-confluence-trash-bash/