Your Environment, Your Future
Featured Project
Race For the Rivers:
Greenway Network, a non-profit citizens action group, is hosting two canoe and kayak races on the Missouri River. Race one is a staged-event covering 65 miles of the scenic Missouri River from Washington Missouri all the way to the Confluence. It is a race for the serious paddler with strong endurance and a desire to compete. Race two is an Adventure Race from Weldon Spring to Frontier Park in Saint Charles. Make plans for August 23 and 24, 2008. See www.racefortherivers.org for more information.
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Hands ON!
Greenway Network wants to thank the many volunteers who have been helping out with our booth at area festivals. In order to make our display more interactive we have been adding macroinvertebrates and eco-art whenever possible.
This quilt top was made using sunprints from Earth Day St Louis 2007. When finished it will be auctioned to raise funds to support our hands-on projects.
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Our Federal Campaign Number is 66328
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Barat Academy Students help Greenway Network In Monitoring Peruque Creek and removing invasive plants.
Students from Barat Academy are working with Greenway Network on a stream restoration project. Here they work with Board Member and Stream Team Guru, Larry Ruff to identify macroinvertebrates.
The students have also removed Bush Honeysuckle and Garlic Mustard from about 150 yards of stream bank. They only have about a mile to go!!
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From the Suburban Journal
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Ryan Prewitt photo St. Charles artist Joseph Farmer works on the plumage of a moto bird he built out of materials pulled from streams in St. Charles County. |
ODD JOBS: From trash to treasure
By Kalen Ponche
Two rusty children's bikes and a twisted guardrail leaned against a shed in Joseph Farmer's backyard Monday afternoon.
Farmer, 56, stood back, considering the array of junk that was organized by size. On the far right were faded highway signs, on the left were linear posts and poles, and in the middle was metal of all shapes.
The junk lay in the bottom of the creeks in St. Charles County until it was pulled out by Operation Clean Stream volunteers during two weekends in April. And it was from this pile of potential that Farmer created a giant metal sculpture of a bird.
Farmer has bent, pounded and welded...
Read the whole article>
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St. Charles County Operation Clean Stream
Two Saturday's in March and April saw Greenway Network's St. Charles County Operation Clean Stream mobilize roughly 220 volunteers who pulled 14,000 pounds of trash from Peruque, Belleau, Lake St. Louis, Dardenne, McCoy and Cole Creeks.
St. Charles County, City of St. Charles, Wentzville, Lake St. Louis, O'Fallon, Dardenne Prairie and Cottleville participated in Greenway Network's annual clean-up. St. Peters postponed their part of the operation.
Once again the Stream Trash ART (START) project was a unique component of the cleanup. This project, created by Greenway Network project director Ralph Rollins, salvages metal pulled from the streams and reuses it to create welded works of art. Joseph Farmer, a St. Charles artist and member of Best of Missouri Hands will work from materials found that day, and will create a sculpture that reminds everyone to keep our streams and rivers clean.
This community-wide event is coordinated by Greenway Network volunteers and sponsored by Missouri Stream Team, George Butler Associates, Brookside Environmental Services, Missouri Department of Conservation, the Natural Resources Conservation Service and Wal-Mart. If you would like to help, but are unable to participate in the actual clean up you can still contribute to this worthwhile project for next year's event.
Contributions can be made through Greenway Network. Send checks to:
Greenway Network
3457 Riverchase Pkwy
St. Peters, MO 63301
or donate online.
Greenway Network is an all volunteer 503c non-profit group and no one is paid a salary. Your deduction is tax deductible.
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Invasive Plants Beware!
Greenway Network has joined several other regional groups in the Gateway Regional Cooperative Weed Management Area. This is a group interested in coordinating efforts and sharing resources for invasive species removal. There is no specific representation on the group from St Charles County. Invasive removal is of particular interest to us as we look toward more work at the Peruque Creek site.
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2008 IS GREENWAY NETWORK'S FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY!!!
Help us celebrate by volunteering, attending events, coming to board meetings, renewing your membership, donating your time or money for special events, letting us get to know you better, advising us on issues, helping us plan by becoming committee member; any or all of this will keep Greenway Network stay an energetic, beneficial group for all of Missouri.
We are located in the heart of the United States in St. Charles County, a county that is bounded by the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois Rivers. Our non-profit volunteer organization works to develop parks, trails, and recreational/educational opportunities for the enjoyment of all. Originally created as a St. Charles County based organization in 1993, we now serve the entire St. Louis Region with a membership base which includes citizens from all the adjacent counties in this region, including Metro East.
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DID YOU KNOW??
Every member of Greenway Network receives a bi-monthly edition of "Missouri Wildlife Magazine" from the Missouri Conservation Federation. Because we support and are an affliate of this very fine Missouri non-profit organization, you receive complimentary copies. If you are a paid member in the month of February, you will receive the magazine for the next year.
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Next Meeting
| Date: | June 2, 2008 |
| Time: | 7:00 pm |
| Location: | Room 202, College Center, St. Charles Community College |
| Information: | Items of discussion will include monthly reports, R4R, Green's Bottom, Grants, Levees, Watershed Protection and planning of other 2008 projects. |
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