I got a funny text message from my friend Bart Mihailovich, the Spokane Riverkeeper, yesterday afternoon: "Just me and RFK Jr rolling to Sandpoint right now!" I was jealous and very proud of him: Robert F Kennedy, Jr. landed in Spokane and Bart took him to Sandpoint for a speaking engagement at the Panida Theater. It went very well and now they're coming back to Spokane tonight where Bobby is going to help champion the cause of cleaning up and protecting Inland Northwest’s signature waterway, the Spokane River. 

Kennedy is a hero and inspiration to many of us. He started as the prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and Kennedy’s leadership has extended to the international Waterkeeper movement, which he now presides over. The Waterkeeper movement has helped spawn more than 200 Waterkeeper organizations around the world, and the Spokane Riverkeeper and Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper are among the most recent additions.

 

 

Kennedy will be introduced by legendary mountaineer Jim Whittaker. Whittaker, the first American to climb Mount Everest, was a close friend to Robert F. Kennedy, Sr.

He will speak at 7:30 p.m. at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox in Spokane, where admission will be $17 general and $7 for students. (Tickets include a $2 historic preservation fee.)

Tickets can be purchased here or at the door. 

 

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