About 700 volunteers spent a sunny Saturday collecting garbage on the banks of the Fraser River in Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK — They came from all over the Lower Mainland, with little in common but a love for the river.
Denise de Ste Croix of North Delta made the trek to enjoy the sun and “impart a sense of social responsibility” to her two kids, seven-year-old Alexis and two-year-old Jackson. “I think most people who come down here are pretty good about taking their garbage with them, but they don’t think about the nails,” she said.
“If people are disconnected from these areas, they’re more likely to mistreat them,” she said when asked if closing off areas to recreation would help preserve them. “That tells me the culture is slowly shifting, that people are connecting with these places and want to help preserve them,” she said.
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