RiverLink Press Release

For immediate release:

Contact: Kathryn Blau
Phone: (828) 252-8474 ext. 118
E-mail: volunteer@riverlink.org

Please contact me for photos of this event.

What: Adopt-a-Stream team river cleanups
When: Saturday, November 18, 2006
Where: Carrier Park   Rotary Club

Riverside Dr.   New Life Community Church

(Asheville, NC)  Saturday was a beautiful day to spend outdoors  and what better way to spend it than cleaning up our rivers! The Rotary Club of Asheville and New Life Community Church, both members of RiverLink’s Adopt-a-Stream program, chose a sunny November day to clean their adopted sections of the French Broad River.

Thirteen volunteers from the Rotary Club worked at Carrier Park on Amboy Road, collecting over thirty bags of trash and eight tires. The area around the former EDACO auto salvage yard was in dire need of cleaning, as there was about twenty years worth of old auto parts.

New Life Community Church collected more than forty bags of trash and found a stash of more than twenty tires at their site on Riverside Drive.

RiverLink’s Adopt-a-Stream program invites interested volunteer groups- schools, churches, community organizations, businesses, neighborhoods  to adopt a section of stream or river in the French Broad River watershed! Stream teams conduct a minimum of two cleanups a year plus one visual monitoring session to assess the health of your adopted stream or river. After one cleanup a sign with the stream team name will be installed at the adopted site. This is a great volunteer program for any age group! For an information packet and application, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@riverlink.org or 828-252-8474 ext. 118.

RiverLink is a regional non-profit organization spearheading the
economic and environmental revitalization of the French Broad River and
its tributaries as a place to live, work and play.
RiverLink conducts river cleanups monthly and will assist
interested groups with cleanups upon request.