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Group helping preserve Alouette river
Jan 10 2007
The spirit of caring for Maple Ridge's creeks and rivers is running strong as the Kanaka Education and Environmental Partnership Society plans its annual meeting, while another group just gets out and cleans up the garbage along the South Alouette River.
Tonight at 7 p.m., at Maple Ridge Library, KEEPS reviews its past year and coming programs – from its hatchery activities to its Catching Kanaka Spirit Youth Group, to its park forums with the Greater Vancouver Regional District.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Meanwhile, Bryan Bronswyk is continuing a practice he's trying to turn into tradition – slogging along the shoreline of the South Alouette River and cleaning up the junk people have left during their visits. The group will do the cleanup roughly between 240th and 224th streets.
" I have noticed in the last couple years that the amount of garbage being left on the riverside and in the forest is astonishing," Bronswyk said. "Some of the stuff that gets into the river is not exactly friendly to wildlife."
He blames that on daily visitors who leave their garbage behind and more homeless people who, he says, are camping along the shore.
Bronswyk has contacted the Alouette River Management Society, which supports the project and should help with disposing of the trash.
He said the cleanup is just a way of giving back for the time he and others spend fishing the Alouette. During winter, he'll fish for steelhead or cutthroat trout and in the fall, coho salmon. He'd like the group of volunteers to grow and do the cleanups on a regular basis.
People who want to help are invited to meet at Maple Ridge Park, Jan. 27 at 8 a.m. Bring a digital camera, if possible.
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