Litter pickup was only the begining: beloved Twin Cities Educator remembered

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“For Kathy, it was never good enough to do a litter pickup,” Mara Coyle said.  “She would never let you say ‘I’ve got this down pat.’  Sure, she’d celebrate your success, but then, in a quiet way, she would push you to do something more.”

This attitude, friends, family, and co-workers said, was what propelled Kathy Kinzig’s efforts to build EcoEducation from a shoestring non-profit when she took the Executive Director’s job in 1997, into a $400,000-a-year organization serving 17 charter and public schools in Minneapolis and St Paul “with a waiting list as long as your arm,” EcoEducation Board Member Jane Prince said.

Kinzig died of bone cancer in December at age 43.  Her family, friends, and former co-workers held a memorial service at the Lake Como Pavilion this past Saturday.

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