| Getting down and dirty Cadets help in cleanup of the Seine River Winnipeg Free Press Wednesday, June 25, 2003 By Bob Armstrong THE muck was indeed insane for Operation Inseine Muck. The 176 Boeing of Canada Air Cadets braved highs of 28 C and the first hatch of the season's mosquitos on June 14 to haul load after load of garbage from a stretch of the Seine River south of Fermor Avenue. In a day of hot labour dubbed Operation Inseine Muck, a total of 18 cadets, two officers and a civilian volunteer filled 50 to 60 garbage bags with trash. They also pulled 15 shopping carts, a couch, a chair, a bike and a suitcase from the mud of the river. Civilian volunteer David Blair says the bike turned out to be one of the biggest surprises of the cleanup. One of the cadets started trying to remove a bike wheel from the river, only to discover that the entire bike was buried in the mud. The rotted couch, meanwhile, had had years of vegetation growing around it and had to be broken into pieces and hauled up the bank. The cadets earned Cadets Caring for Canada awards for their efforts. |