A letter from the self proclaimed Assistant Trash Coordinator, Dick Fox:
Greetings all – on behalf of the Friends of Shenandoah River State Park, I just wanted to drop a note of thanks to everyone for the stellar support of our very successful river cleanup event last Saturday. Here’s a summary of what we collected:
– 1340 lb. of trash total (assuming Brett Clawson’s “shoulder scale” was properly calibrated!)
– 40 bags of trash (apprx.)
– 7 tires
– 1 beach umbrella
– 1 muffler
– 1 tractor steering wheel
– 5 cinder blocks
– several bricks
– 1 large tarp
– selected men’s and ladies undergarments
– too many aluminum cans and plastic bottles to count
We had 26 state park volunteers participating, two fantastic canoe companies, our Park’s chief ranger and two other rangers, and even an ace reporter from the Warren County report. If life is fair, maybe we’ll even make the
next edition!
A special vote of thanks to Don Roberts of Front Royal Canoe Company and John Gibson of Downriver Canoe for your leadership and support of our community project – and for the loan of those canoes that started out clean and came back very dirty!
To Tony Widmer, Andy Davis, Brett Clawson, Donna Smith, Ben Thomas, and Stan Miller for all your support and hard work. For Cyndi Juarez for all the advertising and GREAT banners. And to our Site Captain Jinny Fox and Trash Judge Brian Bennett for getting things organized.
To Dan McDermott who recorded the event and made us all feel like national heroes. To our Friends members Leah Peyton and Jane Whitney for coming out and getting down and dirty for a great cause. And for all the other volunteers – they really got their feet wet! And, they got a warm welcome and invititation to become Friends of the Park and attend our next meeting.
Dick Fox
Assistant Trash Coordinator
Our Heartfelt thanks to all of our participants and especially the Friends of Shenandoah River State Park. We look forward to working together on many more fun and meaningful projects.
Everyone is welcome to attend Friends meetings at7 PM on the first Tuesday of the month at the park’s Visitor Center.
This event was another great way to connect children in nature and was a Kaboom! Play Day event. As a Chesapeake Bay Gateways location the river clean up at Shenandoah River State Park also helped to protect Chesapeake Bay Nature and provided a meaningfulVirginia outdoor adventure for all participants.
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