BCOS Members Pitch In for Love Our Waterways
Ten Bayou Chapter members rolled up their sleeves for this year’s Love Our Waterways cleanup, a Keep Louisiana Beautiful initiative made possible locally through Keep Bossier Beautiful and Shreveport Green.
BCOS volunteers joined others from across the community, spreading out to tackle litter at Richard Fleming Park/North Cross Lake, near the American Legion on Cross Lake, along South Lakeshore Drive and at the East Kings Highway duck pond.
Representing BCOS were Tricia Grayson, Cheryl Webb, Mark Robinson, Melissa Leporati, Gary Knippers, Marian Howard, Scott Grayson, Sharon Windham, Phillip Waters and Brandon Henry. Together, they contributed 40 volunteer hours to the effort.
And the results across the entire Love Our Waterways initiative were impressive: 120 volunteers collected 3.95 tons — 7,900 pounds — of litter in just four hours. That adds up to 480 cumulative volunteer hours and, for a little fun with the numbers, an average of nearly 66 pounds of litter collected per volunteer!
Thank you to our BCOS members who gave their Saturday morning to help care for the waterways and natural spaces we all enjoy. It was a great example of putting the Ozark Society mission — protecting wild and scenic rivers and the natural places around them — into action right here at home.
This was a great coming together of several organizations for the good of our local waterways! Thanks to everyone involved!