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    Roberta Vogel-Leutung
    • 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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    Pat Whalen
    • 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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    Stephen Van Rhein
    • 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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    The Blue River can be to Kansas City, what oil is to Alaska. An Asset!
    • 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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    Nancy Simons
    • 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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    Michael Price
    • 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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    Zac Loehr
    • 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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    Lara Isch
    • 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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    Christina Hoxie
    • 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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    Bill Fessler
    • 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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    Laurie Brown
    • 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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    Jing Tao
    • 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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    Larry Rizzo
    • 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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    Neil Becker
    • 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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    Matt Blake
    • 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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    Kate Delehunt
    • 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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    Brianna Leiker
    • 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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    Vicki Beiringer
    • 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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    #Renewtheblue
    • 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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    Don Wilkison
    • 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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