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2017 Awards Banquet

            The mingling of rivers joins us in physical and spiritual ways and the confluence of many small tributaries often work in mysterious ways.

The next award highlights when one small act cascades into a torrent of subsequent acts.  It started when a young man working for a major river organization accepted an assignment to attend the first gathering of Missouri River Paddlers at Katfish Katy’s in 2015. 

It started when a young man working for a major river organization accepted an assignment in 2015. He went to Katfish Katy’s to attend the first gathering of Missouri River Paddlers where true river heroes came together—people who paddled from the headwaters of the Missouri River to the Gulf of Mexico and the River Angels who helped along the way. This young man met and mingled on day one and the next day he joined them in a borrowed kayak for his first time on the Missouri River. 

A month later, he set up a booth at Frontier Park during the Greenway Network’s annual Watershed Festival and he managed to hop aboard the “Junebug” with Big Muddy Adventures to paddle this giant canoe with 12 others.

A few short weeks passed and he found himself working at the Earthtones river festival in Alton, Illinois. There he helped register volunteers to clean-up Mississippi River and cross-bridged to Missouri River Relief as a fledgling crew member.

And then, before you could count “One Mississippi” he materialized at Sioux Passage Park to join our crew at the Missouri River Clean-up—this time on crutches as he recovered from a knee injury but still determined and undeterred. 

Some of you may remember his recent appearance in Washington, Missouri, where he worked hard all day, doing whatever he was asked. Then, he and his “Colleague at Cleanups” Chris Ragsdale, climbed the cliffs above our campsite and slept in hammocks tied to trees there.

I’ve always been pleased and proud whenever I turn around at a river event and see this young man materializing before my eyes. It’s almost like he’s been beamed aboard our ship by a Star Trek transporter. 

So please join me in applauding Tanner Aljets for winning the “Beam Me Aboard” Award.

Taken on: January 29, 2018

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