The Blue River Story Project

Oct 4, 2021
2 min

Roberta Vogel-Leutung

Note: The interview has been edited for length and clarity. I first engaged with the Blue River through hiking and volunteering at the...

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Oct 4, 2021
2 min

Pat Whalen

Pat Whalen has lived close to the Blue River most of his life. He remembers as a young teenager going to the river to hang out, fish and...

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Oct 4, 2021
1 min

Stephen Van Rhein

Stephen moved from Springfield to Kansas City for a watershed management role with the Missouri Department of Conservation. One of the...

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Oct 4, 2021
3 min

The Blue River can be to Kansas City, what oil is to Alaska. An Asset!

By Carl Stafford The Blue River is a 'natural resource', and as an Artist who wants to use the Arts and nature to address environmental...

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Oct 4, 2021
1 min

Nancy Simons

When I was a little girl we moved to Blue Valley. The street behind my house had a little park, Corrington Park, and the Blue River runs...

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Oct 4, 2021
1 min

Michael Price

I spent a long time at the Blue River in various folds and sections and saw it at its most beautiful and its worst. I've seen it wind...

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Oct 4, 2021
3 min

Zac Loehr

I live one mile down the road from Blue River Road, and since I manage the trails and I’m a mountain biker, I’m out there 3-4 days a week...

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Oct 4, 2021
2 min

Lara Isch

I have lived in the Kansas City metro area my entire life and I grew up being outside as much as possible, from biking to Girl Scout...

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Oct 4, 2021
1 min

Christina Hoxie

After grad school in 2008 I came to KCMO to work for a planning and architecture office focused on sustainability and environmental...

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Oct 4, 2021
1 min

Bill Fessler

What does the Blue River mean to me? The Blue River represents a huge resilient everchanging green space that meanders through our home,...

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Oct 4, 2021
2 min

Laurie Brown

What strikes me most about the Blue River is how much it changes. It goes from relatively pristine and rural with all of the critters and...

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Oct 4, 2021
1 min

Jing Tao

A part of my job responsibility is to work with local high-risk runoff sites, which are primarily of an industrial nature. The focus is...

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Oct 4, 2021
1 min

Larry Rizzo

I spent time growing up exploring the Blue River. I was always outdoors. We fished in the river and me and my friends hung out on some...

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Oct 4, 2021
2 min

Neil Becker

The Blue River begins its life at the confluence of two creeks in southern Johnson County, Kansas and enters Missouri just south of MO150...

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Oct 4, 2021
4 min

Matt Blake

Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Can you share a favorite memory or a few memories of The Blue River in your...

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Oct 4, 2021
2 min

Kate Delehunt

I was a middle school science teacher for many years. I was fortunate to get to be a part of designing the science space in the new...

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Oct 4, 2021
2 min

Brianna Leiker

Before I was an AmeriCorps VISTA serving with Heartland Conservation Alliance in 2015 through 2016, I had not heard of the Blue River....

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Oct 4, 2021
2 min

Vicki Beiringer

I grew up playing in a creek. In New Orleans when my family built a new house, I found a canal right behind my house. I was gone from...

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Oct 4, 2021
1 min

#Renewtheblue

HCA Social Media: Did you spend some time at the Blue River this weekend? If so, comment what you did and if not, comment your favorite...

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Oct 4, 2021
5 min

Don Wilkison

Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity Tell us about a memory or your experience of the Blue River. I have a lot of...

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