Riverfront Park. Photo courtesy Madison Davis
The public is invited to lend a hand in an effort to preserve the St. Joseph Riverfront Park.
A clean-up event held by Riverfront Rescue will be held Saturday, March 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Riverfront Park. Participants are asked to bring gloves, rakes, shovels, trimmers, and other items to help spruce up the park and surrounding area.
Riverfront Rescue coordinator Madison Davis said he started the Facebook page Riverfront Rescue in March of 2014 in an effort to invited citizens who want to help maintain the park.
“I don’t know if you’ve been to Riverfront park in the last three to five years but right now unfortunately it’s basically a place for people to go and not just be there for a positive purpose,” said Davis. “We’re trying to bring light to the area and clean it back up in a positive light.”
Last year Riverfront Rescue held four clean-up activities between March and September.
“There’s a lot of brush on the bank areas, tree limbs, stuff like that that needs picked up and removed,” said Davis. “A lot of it is just people on the interstate up above just throwing trash out and not thinking about it.”
Riverfront Rescue clean up 2014. Photo courtesy Madison Davis
Since Davis started the clean-up event last week on Facebook he said the Riverfront Rescue page has jumped up to more than 300 likes, 100 of which in the last 24 hours.
“I created the event to try and get the word out,” said he said. “It’s been fun to see people that are interested in trying to improve it.”
Davis said he doesn’t know of very many organization utilizing the area but said his church Restoration Church which is just a couple of blocks away held several events there last year.