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thought and proaction at both ecosystemic and cultural scale.
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collaborations among people of good will to integrate culture within nature.
Roanoke Valley Clean Valley Day 2010
Clean Valley Day 2010 was dedicated to the memory of the great Ann Masters, Executive Director of the Clean Valley Council 1994-2009 and member of Impact + Amplify’s interfaith Spirituality and Ecology group.
On March 27, 2010 our targeted area of the Mud Lick Watershed, the grounds of West Mudlick Creek Watershed neighbors, Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church (2505 Electric Rd. (Route 419), Roanoke, VA 24018) and and the Roanoke Office of Lutheran Family Services .
The Reverend Chip Gunsten, Assistant to the Bishop of the Lutheran Synod of Virginia, eloquently blesses our interfaith creation care proaction. Members of the Creation Care Committee and parishioners from Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church, staff from Lutheran Family Services, staff from Roanoke County’s Department of Community Development Environmental Engineering Team and members of Impact + Amplify’s interfaith Spirituality and Ecology group joined in cleaning West Mud Lick Creek Watershed on both sides of Rt. 419. |
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Tom Cain explains the importance of cooperation among watershed neighbors. Individual environmental proaction is good and important, but it is on-going collaborations among people and communities of good will can that produce cumulative and sustained benefits that result in safe, healthy and peaceful environments for humans and for the rest of nature. |
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George Simpson, Roanoke County Engineer, discusses the West Mud Lick Creek Watershed, Roanoke County’s stream restoration project downstream at Garst Mill Park. Lutheran Family Services and Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church are watershed neighbors. Our shared work during Clean Valley Day helps prevent litter and potentially hazardous materials from washing downstream into the Roanoke River. |
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Wes Jargowski, “Save Our Streams” Regional Coordinator for the Upper Roanoke River Basin, explains the need for monitoring to assess the existing potential for life in streams and waterways as a way of knowing how well we are caring for creation. |
Preparing to demonstrate how to monitor stream health in the West Mud Lick Creek Watershed. |
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part of the “Save Our Streams” monitoring crew. |
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organizing the stream monitoring work. |
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putting water in collecting tray used for counting invertebrate life gathered from the net. |
collecting stream-dwelling invertebrates in the net. |
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counting the barely visible midge larvae (they grow up to become gnats). |
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larvae of a fly (not a house fly). |
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 clean-up
action. |
 filecabinet - among the more unexpected things one can find dumped in streams. |
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motion to table the West Mud Lick Creek Watershed is defeated. |
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teamwork. |
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intergenerational collaboration for care of creation. |
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traffic cone. |
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progress. |
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toxics? |
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teamwork to retrieve a carpet at the bottom of a steep creekbank. |
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Did we mention this is work that needed to be done? |
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phew! |
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“American Gothic 2010” |
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some of the satisfied workcrew. |
“Thanks Annie” sticker on a “slicker.” The stickers were worn by clean-up volunteers in memory of Ann Masters.
Clean Valley Day, March 27th., was dedicated to the memory of the great Ann Masters, Executive Director of the Clean Valley Council 1994-2009 and member of Impact + Amplify’s interfaith Spirituality and Ecology group.
