Media
November 3, 2014
"Big Muddy Clean Sweep 2014" - media clips
Our 2014 Big Muddy Clean Sweep was a two-month journey across the middle of Missouri, bringing hundreds of people down to the river to clean it up and learn about it. Here's some of the media that was published about the adventure.
Glasgow to Boonville Clean Sweep
- "Cleaning up the Big Muddy" - photo slideshow and blog by Missouri Life staff.
Boonville Events
- "River Cleanup and Festival Afterglow" - Boonville Daily News Column by uber-volunteer Joan Read
- "River Cleanup turnout greater than expected" - Boonville Daily News article, Sept. 22, 2014
- "Big Muddy Clean Sweep makes waves in Boonville" - KOMU story and video, Sept. 20, 2014
- "Trash turned art is showcased at Boonville River Festival" - KOMU story with photos about Boonville High School art teacher Helen Sander's students and their trash-to-art exhibit at the River Festival.
- KBIA's Thinking Out Loud River Festival segment
- "Volunteers Clean Up Missouri River" - KRCG 13
- Two part article (w/audio) from "Missouri Environment" series on KBIA 91.3 - by Gary Grigsby "Columbia Organization Provides Connection to the Missouri River" - "Making a connection with the Big Muddy while cleaning it up"
- Boonville Event Page
Cooper's Trash Bash
- "Trash, Traffic and Transformations" - blog by the Blackwater Drifters, Joe Zimmerman and Nick Caizza who are paddling the Missouri/Mississippi Rivers Source to Sea and filming a movie.
Jefferson City Clean-up and Race to the Dome
- "Despite High Water Group Cleans Missouri River near Jefferson City" - blog by Jessica Stone, Muddy Boots News at MU.
- "Race to the Dome supports Missouri River" - by Mark Slavit, KRCG-TV 13
- Jefferson City Event Page
Octoberfest Trash Bash in Hermann & Art Auction in McKittrick
- "River Relief's 'Clean Sweep' Makes Return to Hermann" - Gasconade County Republican
- "Weather Interrups River Relief's Learning Festival but not Learning" - Oct. 22 editorial by Dave Marner
- "Artists and River Rats: Supporting the Cultural Ecology of the Missouri River" - from Art of the Rural by Tina Casagrand
- Hermann Event Page
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