A North Carolina girl highlighted on the Asheville nonprofit RiverLink’s blog, called The River Whisperer, is now getting some national media attention.
CBS Evening News with Katie Couric is scheduled to do a story tonight that will include 6-year-old Skyler Fielder-Jones and her efforts to collect and donate supplies to RiverLink for the Gulf oil spill clean-up. Here’s what RiverLink blogger Dave Russell wrote:
Remember a few weeks ago when we posted a request for cleanup supplies for the wildlife affected by the Gulf Coast oil mess?
We’d received some donations, though nothing to brag about until today, when 6-year-old Skylar Fielder-Jones and family, from Southern Pines, NC, (about 20 miles this side of Fayetteville) stopped into the office with her collection of requested cleanup supplies:
Skylar (left in pic with her younger sister Zoie) really went to work on this after watching the news one evening. According to a story in her local paper, The Pilot, “Skylar felt the call to action while she was watching news reports about the spill on television. She remembers images of fish swimming in the oil. She later saw a commercial for Dawn liquid dish detergent depicting volunteers cleaning a baby penguin with the soap.”
The determined young lady got up in front of her whole church and made an appeal, and her family was supportive enough to drive all the way here with three kids in a minivan.
How cool is that?
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Very cool!