Gary Swick, president of Friends of the Fox River for the past 11 years, and Jenni Kempf, director of watershed education for the Friends' and its first full-time employee, certainly embrace the notion that keeping a river clean is a year-round job.
"It didn't matter to us what they used in the film because we think everything we do is great for the river," she said of the Friends' river cleanup and education efforts."They captured way more than they could possibly have ended up with in the 12½ minute film." And Kempf is an example of what can happen when young people learn about the importance of the river ecosystem. She was one of Swick's students at Dundee-Crown.
But they are laser-focused on the here and now of getting more Friends of the Fox River members and seeing more young people and adults take part in the river cleanup days. The next two cleanups are scheduled for successive Saturdays, May 13 and 20. A river cleanup session doesn't always involve digging out tires, shopping carts or washing machines -- all things the Friends have encountered in the river over the years. It's become a more difficult and detailed task because of the massive amount of plastic in the river.
In many ways, the Friends of the Fox River are trying to bring us all back to a place that so many others found to be a pristine source for their lives. The chamber is bringing back its Coffee Cup Crawl, starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 22, at the Geneva Public Library. Mandrake gets its water Mandrake's Wine Bar needed a water main extension connected as it moved along with plans to occupy the former Ristorante Chianti site on Third Street in Geneva.
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