Upcoming in St. Charles, Mo.
Spreading Big Muddy Love – 18 years with Missouri River Relief
Presented by Steve Schnarr, Missouri River Relief
Program manager Steve Schnarr will join us to share some stories and videos of 18 years working on the Missouri River.
Students from UMKC Student Environmental Coalition work to cleanup floating trash downstream of Kansas City. photo by Alex Prentice.
Presentation by Steve Schnarr, Missouri River Relief
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
6. p.m. Social Hour at Big A’s on the Riverfront
7:00 p.m. Presentation
At Big A’s on the Riverfront (in the back room)
308 N Main St. – St Charles, MO
(directions below)
Presentation is FREE and open to the public!
Hosted by Greenway Network
Missouri River Relief is a nonprofit based in Columbia, MO, that works in communities along the Missouri River from St. Louis to Omaha. They are well known for organizing river clean-ups on the Big Muddy, but their real secret mission is to make the Missouri River cool again. Since their start in 2001, they have grown to also organize education events with students and teachers, river races, habitat restoration, film festivals, art auctions and more. Whatever they can do to bring people to the Missouri River to fall in love with it.
Program manager Steve Schnarr will join us to share some stories and videos of 18 years working on the Missouri River.
Directions
To Big A’s on the Riverfront, our host for the Speaker Series.
To get there from I-70
- Take I-70 to exit 229B – the 5th St. Exit
- Merge onto 5th St. headed north toward St. Charles.
- After about 1 mile, turn right on Monroe St.
- Turn left onto N. Main St.
- Big A’s will be on your right (308 N. Main St.) Additional parking is available in the rear.
- View on Google Maps.
Resources & Links
Here’s some links for more cool River Relief stuff:
- Missouri River Relief website
- River Notes: The Missouri River Relief Blog
- River Relief media archive – videos, articles and more
- Photos
- Missouri River MegaScout blog
- Results from Missouri River Relief clean-ups
- ARTICLE – “River Warriors” by Brett Dufur, Missouri Conservationist magazine
- ARTICLE – “We Experience the River” by Karen Cernich, Washington Missourian
The Big Muddy Speakers Series in St. Charles
is hosted by these wonderful partners:
All speakers are presenting for free and Big A’s is sharing the space for free! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us!
The Big Muddy Speaker Series also takes place monthly in Rocheport and Kansas City.
A special thank you to Greg Poleski of Greenway Network for making this happen!
