After a fun afternoon of volunteering at the Earth Day event on the National Mall (which, fortunately, was neither blown away nor electrocuted in the stormy weather LCV interns Michelle, Spencer and Courtenay leaped over puddles that would intimidate Moses, onto a train and towards Baltimore to catch flights to Kansas City (Spencer) and St Louis (Michelle and Courtenay.) Our aim: to head to the mid-west to help "Renew Missouri" with a signature-signing initiative to put clean energy on the ballot in November.
At the airport, after an enthusiastic "Go team!" the interns parted. Due to the storms Courtenay and Michelle's plane was delayed, so that we arrived at our hotel at 1:30AM, sleepy but excited for the day ahead.
The next day we drove via rental car to the Coalition for the Environment office in St Louis, where we met its friendly and energetic staff. After a warm welcome we started working. Michelle and Courtenay drove to Meremac Community College to collect signatures for the afternoon, then came back to the office to work the phones until 9pm.
People -particularly students- have been very obliging with their John Hancocks. We're optimistic about the week ahead!
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