Wrapping It Up

Fellow River Rally-iers! 

Due to weather, we are cancelling our final cleanup of the season which was scheduled for this Saturday at 9:30. 

A big thanks to all our enthusiastic volunteers for another great season. 

We had a terrific year. We grew our volunteer base and forged new partnerships with community and environmental groups. Working with the City and CAReS London, we managed to have permanent needle bins installed in Carfrae Park. One of our founders, Miriam Love, will be featured in an upcoming article by Kerry Manders (thanks KM!) in a special issue of Canadian Women's Studies that deals with "Women and Water."
 
Above all else, we spent some great hours on the Thames River--removing tonnes of garbage from the river and its banks, doing our best to learn about and protect the habitats that the river sustains, meeting new people and sharing in the everyday practice of citizen action and environmental stewardship.
 
We will see you again in the Spring. Our first cleanup will take place in April (date tba) and will be a part of the great Thames River Cleanup. Thanks again for your solidarity and fellowship.
 
"The river is within us."

The TRR Team

In Your Neighbourhood

Thames River Rally was delighted to be invited to clean up an area along the river near where some great community-minded, nature lovin' people (not all the volunteers are shown here) live and regularly walk.   We cleaned up the area from Chealsea Green Park (Adelaide Street bridge) all the way to Watson Street Park (Wellington Street bridge).

We carted away about fifteen bags of garbage!  What a haul, and what a surprising number of plastic bottles.  Go figure.  One of our intrepid volunteers even found some inspiration in the form of a piece of torn cross steel plate for an art project!  Nice!

Sure it was drizzly and misty rain at times, but that didn't dampen our spirits nor enthusiasm.  But herein lies a a couple messages; If you know about area of the river that needs a cleanup, tell us about it (mail@thamesriverrally.ca) and the other thing?  Sunny or wet, there's garbage to get!