“If you’re anything like me, you look at Spokane River downtown and think, ‘Oh, nice river.’  You take out-of-town visitors to Riverfront or Riverside State Park, and they take pictures. How often do you actually interact with the river? Most of us probably spend a scant few minutes even thinking about the river, much less actively seeking out its waters.

But a better question than ‘how often do I interact with the river’ might be ‘How often does the river interact with me?’ Do I drink water? Do I use electricity? Do I read the newspaper? Does the river not then interact with me almost every moment of every day? Should I not then be paying just a little more attention to that very important body of water? Furthermore, shouldn’t I teach my kids not to carry around the same disinformation (fear) that I do?” - Terry Bain

Today's quote should read familiar to you as it's one we posted a few weeks back, but with the seventh-annual Spokane River Clean-Up set to take place tomorrow, we thought it a good time to share with you one of our favorite Spokane River quotes so when you're out there tomorrow getting dirty and picking up trash, you can have this in the back of your mind to keep you going!

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