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April 26,
2006
Friends of Milwaukee’s Rivers Wins
National Award,
$10,000.00
USA Weekend Magazine recognized Friends of Milwaukee’s
Rivers and their partners as one of ten national winners of
the Make A Difference Day 2005 contest, for their
Kinnickinnic River Cleanup on October 22nd.
Friends of Milwaukee’s Rivers and 16th Street Community
Health Center, along with partnering organizations the
Sierra Club, United Water and the Bay View Neighborhood
Association, organized a cleanup of the Kinnickinnic River
that mobilized over 90 volunteers, and removed over
12,000lbs of garbage from the river corridor.
“We’re so honored that the Make A Difference Day organizers
have recognized the importance not only of the work that we
do, but the lasting partnerships that have been created,”
says Lynn Broaddus, executive director for Friends of
Milwaukee’s Rivers.
Benefits of this honor include a $10,000 gift from the Paul
Newman Foundation, money that has been earmarked for river
clean up partnerships in the Kinnickinnic watershed.
“We’re excited for the possibilities this money creates for
further collaborative work cleaning up the Kinnickinnic
River, and for educating the public on how the health of
their waterways affects the long term health of their
community,” says Ben Gramling, spokesperson for 16th Street
Community Health Center.
The award ceremony was held April 26th, 2006, at the
Hyatt-Regency downtown, where executive director of Friends
of Milwaukee’s Rivers Lynn Broaddus was presented with the
award and a check.
In addition to the grant, USA Weekend Magazine ran a feature
article on the 10 recepients of the award April 21st thru
23rd, the weekend of Friends of Milwaukee’s Rivers’ 2006
11th Annual Spring River Cleanup.
During the April Spring Cleanup volunteers now numbering
over 200 returned to the cleanup site and removed an
additional 4 tons of garbage.
April 25,
2006
Accidental dumping of sewage still a
mystery
Journal Sentinel article
April 24,
2006
Lynn Broaddus guest blogger on Great
Lakes Town Hall Opinion Forum
Each week, Great Lakes
Town Hall chooses a guest to write daily blog entries for
its Opinion Forum. This week Lynn Broaddus, Executive
Director of Friends of Milwaukee's Rivers, is the guest
blogger. She will write a journal entry every day this week.
Check out Lynn’s blog
April 22,
2006
Largest river cleanup in FMR history
 In
an effort to curb the continuous degradation of Milwaukee’s
three rivers over 1,100 volunteers, coordinated by
Friends of Milwaukee’s Rivers, removed literally tons of
shopping carts, tires, pipes and other garbage from the
polluted water Saturday.
“This cleanup is one of many ways we attempt to reconnect
citizens with their rivers; assets to their community that,
due to pollution and neglect, are often overlooked,” said
Cheryl Nenn, spokesperson for Friends of Milwaukee’s Rivers.
“I never realized how disrespected our rivers are,” said
Dwight Williamson, a volunteer at the Gordon Park site.
This cleanup marks the largest restoration and
rehabilitation effort in Friends of Milwaukee’s Rivers 11
year history.
The clean up took place at over 25 different sites along the
Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic Rivers.
At a site along the Kinnickinnic River, a crane assisted
over 200 volunteers in removing over 4 tons of trash,
building on cleanup efforts from last year that won Friends
of Milwaukee’s Rivers and their volunteers a national award
from USA Weekend Magazine.
Volunteers removed garbage from 9 a.m. until noon.
Garbage bags were provided by Keep Greater Milwaukee
Beautiful in conjunction with Keep Greater America
Beautiful, as part of the 2006 Great American Cleanup.
Sponsors include:
Wisconsin Paperboard
American Transmission
Herb Kohl Charities
Pier Milwaukee
Allied Glove & Safety
Products*
Anchorage Restaurant*
Performance Yachts*
United Water*
*In-kind donation
Food and drink sponsors:
El Rey, Riverwest Co-op, Koppa's Farwell Foods, The Dogg Haus, Beechwood Cheese,
Stone Creek Coffee,
Cedarburg Coffee Roastery, Piggly Wiggly Cedarburg,
Target, Starbucks, Little
Caesar's, McDonald's, Pickn'Save
Metro Market, Jewel
Osco
See pictures
of this year's cleanup!
April 3,
2006
Untreated waste dumped at North Shore
sites
District officials say
rain overwhelmed sewers
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District dumped
untreated waste at two North Shore locations Monday morning
but a report that sewage was being dumped at 106th St. and
Fisher Parkway turned out to be a false alarm.
Journal Sentinel article
April 1,
2006
Dumps violated MMSD permit, DNR says
Agency considers whether
to cite district or add latest episode to lawsuit.
Journal Sentinel article |
