Kahnawa:ke Celebrates the Start of Earth Month

On Tetawathartha the part line talkshow on K1037 today, Julie Delisle, Carlee Kawinetha Loft, Environmental Projects Coordinator – Policy & Outreach, and Iotshatena:wi Reed, Communications Liaison with the Kahnawà:ke Waste Management Department. They were the invited guests, discussing ‘Earth Month’:

“We’re here to let community members know how they can get involved with some of the events we have going on including community clean-ups. ‘The Eastern Door Annual Spring Clean-up,’ (is on, with) KEPO and Waste management are collaborating with them again this year. Their 20th annual clean-up, it’s going to be on Friday April 19th starting at 7am until 12pm. The clean-up headquarters are going to be at The Eastern Door office on the OCR. We’ll all be set-up there with our tents, they have cleaning supplies, we have all the materials, we are going be doing some giveaways, we have some refreshments. It’s going to be a really nice day, so we’re encouraging community members to get out there that day and just clean-up our community.”

The Kahnawà:ke Environment Protection Office (KEPO) will also be conducting the ‘Nocturnal Owl Survey’ on Thursday, April 11^th, from 8:30pm until midnight. KEPO employees will be visiting 10 stations throughout the community where they will be broadcasting owl calls as part of the survey. The Nocturnal Owl Survey is a nationwide initiative coordinated by Birds Canada and is conducted by volunteers throughout Canada. The surveys are used to monitor the health of owl populations over time. This is KEPO’s fifth year participating in the survey.