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Clean streets and rivers for St. Petersburg: restoring the Pioneer riverbank

Volunteers are restoring the Pioneer riverbank in St. Petersburg; $2,450 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

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Kendall D. Rios
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St. Petersburg
The Pioneer riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 52 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 117 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the municipal water board, including native species selected by a local botanist. The area floods more each year, and fish have returned for the first time in a decade after our first cleanup. Restoring it will protect homes and bring back shade. All the labor is volunteered. We just need materials. We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted. Where the $2,450 goes: • Tools and protective gear: $530 • Waste removal and skip hire: $560 • Native saplings and stakes: $1,360 Even a small gift gets used right away and I'll thank you myself. - Kendall
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Kendall

  1. Wanted to say thank you properly. 101% funded and we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.

  2. Quick update: $1,688 raised so far (69%). we've started the first stage. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

  3. We're at 23% thanks to 14 of you. the first invoice got paid this week. More news soon.

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  • Yanti Dinda SaputraID verified

    hope it all works out. Hope you get there. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Take care.

    • Runa Shapla Bose

      Keep going, Kendall. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Take care.

      • Cristina Sartori

        You're not alone, Kendall. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Greetings from Abbottabad

        • Mei Hina Shimizu

          Praying for you, Kendall. Shared this with my family. I hope September is when things finally get easier.

          • Serenity J. Allen

            your post was clear and honest. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Thinking of St. Petersburg.

            • Young-ho Jung-ho Lim

              Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Love from Vancouver.

              • Sadia Nida Baig

                Stay strong, Kendall. This could happen to any of us. Greetings from Çankaya!

                • Atsushi Fujimoto

                  Praying for you. Your post was clear and honest. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. Blessings.

                  $3,162 raised of $2,450

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