Two
separate River Bank Clean Ups were held on Saturday,
October 6, 2001. The Madison and Montevideo National
Guard units each donated four hours of community service
time to help in river clean up efforts. CURE organized
and advertised the clean ups.
Soldiers
from the Madison Guard Unit worked at a farm located
near the LqP County Park that is owned by Paul
Schwendemann. They removed many years worth of old car
bodies, farm machinery and various other metal junk from
riparian woodland. It required the use of large
machinery and winches.
Madison
Guard Unit
Soldiers of Btry B (-), 1st Bn 151st
FA
PV1 Chad Lorenzen, SPC Ryan Erp,PFC Dale
Peschong,
PV2 Jeramiah Peters, SPC Ross Holmlund,
SSG Loran Haas, PV1 Dallas Johnson, PV1 Paul
Beninga
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Twenty-two
soldiers from the Montevideo Guard Unit filled two
20-yard dumpsters full of an assortment of junk at a
site located south of Montevideo along the Minnesota
River. It took 22 soldiers four hours of handwork to
accomplish this feat. The clean up is not finished and
is scheduled to continue.
Montevideo
Guard Unit
Soldiers of HHS Battery 1st Battalion
151st Field Artillery
PFC Ginny Olson, PFC Megan Velde, PFC
James Christenson,
PFC Kelli Honsey, SGT Emmett Klucas, PFC Kelly
Kemen, SSG Larry Aalderks, PFC Joshua Munson,
SPC Matthew Martin, SPC Kyle Thompson,
PFC Benjamin Pfaff, SPC Brian Woller, CDT
Matthew O'shea,
SPC Galen Habben, SPC Kyle Kjersten, SSG
James Ruether
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"This
is a great project. We’re glad to support CURE and
help the community. I hope more people will get involved
in the future. This is an excellent activity for other
organizations such as the Scouts," states Sgt.
Loran Haas. If you have land adjacent to public waters
that you would like cleaned up or would like to get
involved in a clean up effort, please contact CURE at
320-269-2984 or toll-free 877-269-2873 or email us at CUREcommunications@info-link.net
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CURE - Clean Up
the River Environment
www.curemnriver.org
114 South 1st Street West
Montevideo, MN 56265
Phone: 320-269-2984 Fax: 320-269-5624
Toll-Free: 877-269-2873
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Upper
Minnesota River Watershed - "Leave a Clean Water Legacy"
