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6 days 21 hours ago

Today is Mother's Day, and yesterday, 61 people volunteered their time to tend to a part of Mother Earth at Lake Hiawatha. Truly an amazing effort on a beautiful day! I am grateful for all who volunteered, and I hope our efforts to categorize, weigh and record our collections will heighten awareness of the gravity of this ongoing problem affecting the health of Lake Hiawatha. Three eagles circled overhead as we began yesterday, and I am going to assume they were expressing gratitude too. Perhaps, someday, we can simply celebrate clean water resources!

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1 week 10 hours ago

Here are a few more photos from our Earth Day Clean-up at the lake. Thank you so much, to all of you who participated in this event!!! And thank you to our brightly colored onlookers that brought music to our ears...American Redstart, American Robin, Baltimore Oriole, Palm Warbler, and many not photographed.

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1 week 12 hours ago

This was pulled out of Lake Hiawatha yesterday day by approximately thirty volunteers. 240 lbs of mostly plastic and styrofoam. Unfortunately, we were only able to clean a small portion of the trash that is currently in the Lake. The shores are still littered with trash, with more to come as the next rainfall washes the contents of the streets of south Minneapolis right into the Lake and on down the Mississippi River and onward to the gulf of Mexico. There were helpers from Cameroon and Cuba! Everyone worked so hard to clean, it was really inspiring! it really does make a difference for the Lake and the wildlife. Let's get some mitigation on that storm pipe! like now! Thanks to Penny Fuller, Roxanne Stuhr, Chesney Engquist, Westminster Presbyterian and the Friends of Lake Hiawatha for putting it all together!

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1 week 5 days ago

Yes! We need more permeable surfaces in our watershed so that water infiltrates slower into the water table instead of straight into our water bodies via our storm sewer system. Exciting to see this project happen!

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