About 250 volunteers will be in the Mason City area starting this weekend using canoes to clean up two rivers. Iowa Project AWARE, which stands for A Watershed Awareness River Expedition, will focus its efforts on some 60 miles of the Winnebago and Shell Rock rivers in Cerro Gordo, Worth and Floyd counties. Event director Jenna Pfeiffer says this is the 22nd year for the effort.
Pfeiffer says volunteers have found some very interesting things in the state’s rivers over the years.
Pfeiffer says the public is welcome to attend some of the educational sessions, at East Park in Mason City or the Tosanak Recreation Area near Marble Rock.
The first round of sessions is at 4:30 PM daily, with another at 7:30 PM
