About This Event
Hurricane Helene littered local rivers with shattered homes and windows, family keepsakes, appliances, lawn mowers, paint cans, jugs of pesticide, cars, and more. The odds and ends of daily lives were churned and battered and often buried in sediment.
The clean up and restoration continues.
Erica Shanks is the Green Riverkeeper & Watershed Outreach Coordinator at Mountain True, a non-profit organization restoring rivers and river banks with the work of employees and volunteers and community involvement. On Wednesday 8/19, 1 PM, Erica will talk about the objectives and scope of the task, the funding challenges, the workers and why and how they do it, their safety equipment, and what they may feel when pulling something of probable sentimental value from the mud. She says, personally, it’s tough to wrap her head around the idea of families having endured such a “loss of place.”
Comfortable capacity for Lanier Library events is 50 people. If the event fills up, please email lanierlibraryevents@gmail.com to request to be on the waitlist.
About This Event
Hurricane Helene littered local rivers with shattered homes and windows, family keepsakes, appliances, lawn mowers, paint cans, jugs of pesticide, cars, and more. The odds and ends of daily lives were churned and battered and often buried in sediment.
The clean up and restoration continues.
Erica Shanks is the Green Riverkeeper & Watershed Outreach Coordinator at Mountain True, a non-profit organization restoring rivers and river banks with the work of employees and volunteers and community involvement. On Wednesday 8/19, 1 PM, Erica will talk about the objectives and scope of the task, the funding challenges, the workers and why and how they do it, their safety equipment, and what they may feel when pulling something of probable sentimental value from the mud. She says, personally, it’s tough to wrap her head around the idea of families having endured such a “loss of place.”
Comfortable capacity for Lanier Library events is 50 people. If the event fills up, please email lanierlibraryevents@gmail.com to request to be on the waitlist.