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What Makes a Hero?
A Note From Producer, Kelly Meinhart
Throughout this past year we have seen and met a variety of heroes in a wide spectrum of arenas. And what I think is the most valiant lesson I've learned is that there is hope. Hope comes in many ways, and through many people, but most importantly from your own self-consciousness.
Without hope nothing would ever get accomplished. Hope is what has inspired hundreds of residents to get up early on Saturday mornings, put their hip waders on, and go out to test their backyard stream. Hoping to find a sign that the water quality has improved, or to find a new fish species calling it home. Hope has created partnerships and friendships between individuals and organizations that may have never met, if it weren't for their similar hopes to make the environment a cleaner one. Hope is what we all must have if we are to survive.
As Watershed Weekly closes out its first two years of programming, I thought this would be a good time to say thank you to all of the positive role models, "heroes" if you will, who have influenced so many others by simply caring enough to take a stand and make a difference in our environment, and in their watersheds.
Over the past two years of programming, we've met teachers, engineers, retired folks, high school students, environmental professionals, writers, photographers, pilots, sojourners, and an endless list of people who have inspired us to get out into our communities, get our hands dirty, and make things better - for everyone.
It is all of you who make our world a bit better, and our water quality a whole lot cleaner. Thank you for your dedication, courage, ambition, and innovation, and thank you as well, for sharing your stories with Watershed Weekly. But thank you most of all, for giving, and showing that hope is real and that it is contagious.
See past Watershed Heroes here!
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