Rocheport Day of Caring

Students and parents planting trees and picking up trash along the River Walk Trail

Photo by Lea Langdon

It was one of those days when you weren't quite sure what the weather was going to be like when the event actually started. It looked like it was going to rain, but then again it is always possible that the rain would hold off until it was all over, and for the most part it did indeed hold off. On Saturday, April 18 we joined up with Maria Dorsey (an AmeriCorps-Vista), Friends of Rocheport, the French Club from West Junior High (here in Columbia), and Missouri River Relief to have a Day of Caring in Rocheport, MO.

With the help of about 60 students and parents, we planted 350+ trees along the Moniteau Creek, the River Walk, and in a couple of parks in town. On the clean up side of things, they had 73 volunteers and a total of about 5.7 tons of trash cleaned up, which includes an old rusted bed frame that I and couple of parents pulled out of the ground near where we were planting our trees... woohoo! You can read River Reliefs summary of the day at their Rocheport Results Page.

Look to see another post by me either later today or tomorrow (gotta get March up!)