Canoeing the Mississippi to the Gulf Spill
6 Aug
Three men in a canoe, paddling from the headwaters of the Mississippi towards the oil spill.
With hopes of raising awareness and donations for restoring the gulf coast areas affected by the recent BP oil spill, Dave Kolck, Justin Dworak and Matt Bergmann, are working in conjunction with the Louisiana-based, nonprofit Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper organization to draw as much attention as possible to one of the nation’s worst natural disasters.
“We were told this could be dangerous, but we knew those people down there are in trouble and we just wanted to do something,” Kolck said. “We looked into (relief) organizations in the Gulf and said, ‘Let’s see if we can raise some money.”
Information about donations toward the recovery effort along the Gulf Coast can be found at www.lmrk.org.
Their journey started July 14, and hopes to reaching New Orleans in August.
Read the full story HERE at the Quincy Herald-Whig
