UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, April 25, 1994
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Earth Week activities stress environmental awareness
Parade, speech, concert promote responsibility
By Ashley Schultz Kansan staff writer
Earth Day is every day, said Amy Trainer, president of KU Environics.
In keeping with that theme, the Kaw Valley Earth Week Committee this year scheduled a week's worth of events centered on Friday, which was Earth Day. Trainer, Derby sophomore, said she hoped that the sentiment would live past the weekend's closing events.
Chris Foster, Bakersville, Calif., graduate student and a member of Environs, spoke at the "Environmental Open Mike" on Friday in front of Wescoe Hall. Topics included the South Lawrence Trafficway, rain forest depletion and local water quality, Foster said. The Earth also was serenaded with "Happy Birthday" and environmental chants.
Cub Scouts swarmed around Woodsy Owl, the anti-pollution owl, Saturday at the Clinton Lake cleanup. After getting their picture taken with Woodsy, the scouts could wander over to the Wild Care table to see a live great horned owl.
Jackie Hurst, park ranger with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, estimated that this year's cleanup had drawn 600 people as opposed to 800 last year. She said that the event was the only one of its kind for the year.
"It's really important, especially this year because the water was up so high last year," Hurst said. "When it receded back down, it left a lot of trash and a lot of debris that had washed up along the shoreline."
Erich Starrett, Salina senior who works with Community Living Opportunities, sorted
"It's good to see a good mix of people out here," Starrett said. "The whole gang's coming out. It's great."
through the trash, separating recyclables while a group of elderly couples stomped aluminum cans along the sidewalk.
Girl Scout Troop 617 led the brief parade downtown Saturday, which featured about 40 entrants, said parade organizer Jaime Beletz, Lawrence resident. Belzet wore a brown bunny suit to resemble Mo, his 12-pound chinchilla rabbit who rode in the parade on the "Mo Float."
"Mo float means Mo bunny." Beletz said.
Mick Palmer of Lawrence performed elaborate maneuvers with a grocery cart as part of the four-cart Community Mercantile Marching Grocers. He estimated that the parade had lasted 15 minutes.
About 20 booths were set up at the parade's destination in South Park, said Erin Madden, Lenexa junior who helped coordinate the celebration. A white bud tree was planted near the old courthouse in commemoration of Earth Day 1994.
Bob Eye, Lawrence resident and independent candidate for governor, spoke to the crowd at South Park.
"Let us challenge our universities to care as much about the destruction of biodiversity as they care about the burning of book," Eye said.
Eye also spoke about water quality and environmental justice at yesterday's KU Earth Day Concert on the Hill, which featured four bands and a variety of speakers.
"Planet Earth is a living being." Trainer told the crowd on the hill. "And we cannot go on thinking that our actions do not affect the rest of the living biosphere."
"Hope is what is going to be lost if we don't start today," Trainer said. "If we don't do something, who will?"
Martin Altstaedten / KANSAN
Mountain Clyde, a Lawrence band, warms up to play at the KU Earth Day Concert on the Hill. The concert took place yesterday afternoon and was part of a week's worth of events centered on Earth Day, which was Friday.
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