BACTrust Partners with PepsiCo, Fox Valley Pony Club, and Neighbors to Clean Up Flint Creek Corridor

In celebration of Earth Day, BACTrust coordinated two events alongside the PepsiCo property on County Line Road in Barrington to clean up the Flint Creek Corridor. The effort is part of an ongoing partnership with Pepsi, the parent company for Quaker Oats, to protect the natural areas on the facility. Working from the southern edge of the site with private landowners, the first project on April 18 utilized the skills of the Fox Valley Pony Club. The team dedicated approximately 50 volunteer hours of clean-up of debris, deadfall, and buckthorn, followed by a donation of time and resources from A Care of Trees, who brought the chainsaw and herbicide for the stumps of cut buckthorn.

The second effort, on April 22, included 22 volunteers who logged over 80 hours of volunteer time to clear debris, deadfall, and buckthorn from the northern end of the PepsiCo property. Workers from the factory took time out from desk jobs to don T-shirts, pick up tools, and labor the day away in the sun and bugs for the benefit of the watershed. BACTrust provided training, volunteers, and tools to the day. It was a wonderful corporate-community partnership effort that resulted in a cleaner watershed for all of us.

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Executive Director

Board of Trustees

Advisory Board

Nancy Schumm-Burgess

Development Director and Barrington Concours Executive Director

Patty Dowd Schmitz

Mary Bradford-White, President

Elizabeth C. Bramsen

Lorraine H. Briggs

Judy Freeman, Treasurer

Dick Maddrell

Stevenson Mountsier

David F. Nelson

Glenn W. Reed

Jo Seagren

Young Chung

Bill L. Davis

Kim Duchossois

Jonathan C. Hamill

Richard Lamkey

Annamarie Lukes

Julie Ann Martens

Robert McGinley

Brian J. McManus, Sr.

Jack D. Train

Jim Voris

Lynn F. White