Rain Barrel Winner announced...

Jeanine Freshour of Butler won a free rain barrel in the drawing sponsored by the Mound Branch Evaluation and Restoration Project at the Osage Valley Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Council booth at the Bates County fair.

Appleton City artist Susan Hearting donated her time and materials to decorate the rain barrel with a garden theme.

Osage Valley RC&D administers the Mound Branch project, sponsored by the Missouri Department of Conservation, and the Kan-Mo Bi-State Targeted Watershed Grant, sponsored by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Both are EPA-funded watershed grants designed to reduce nonpoint source pollution of area streams and rivers.

The Bi-State grant distributed free water bottles to fair-goers, and funded last month's free rain barrel distribution.

-courtesy FM 92.1 the Bullet