Opinion: Today I'm taking a break from a typical Trailist to tell you about River Aid San Antonio and invite you to join our mission to make portions of our waterways clean enough for swimming again.
As a kid, I was fascinated by ants. Much to my mom’s chagrin, I would leave crumbs around the kitchen floor and watch the insects navigate the linoleum expanse, leaving behind a chemical trail for their sisters. I loved how they selflessly worked together to carry crumbs much larger than themselves back to the colony.
All groups have an origin story, and River Aid’s begins with Gardopia, the Eastside gardening nonprofit headed by Stephen Lucke that’s become a hub of environmental activity in the city’s urban core. A group of Gardopia volunteers and staff, all in their 20s and 30s, began to discuss finding a long-term solution to the city’s rampant trash problem.
I came away from that encounter feeling like no one could ever get a handle on this problem. That San Antonio is doomed to live with trash-strewn public lands, and I might as well get used to it. Blank’s special talent is recruitment. Over months of cleanups, the group snowballed to include people of all of all ages, backgrounds and political perspectives.
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