Coloring Book Activity

Directions: Select a color from the color palette at the top. Click an area of the picture to fill with selected color. Enjoy!

Message In The Bottle
On May 5, 2001, Charlotte Phifer, along with other volunteers, found an old soft drink bottle during a Renew the Coosa cleanup. Inside the plastic bottle was a note, dated May 6, 1982, with instructions about who to contact if it was ever found. It turned out a young boy had placed the bottle and message in Terrapin Creek, a tributary of the Coosa River in Cherokee County. The message in the bottle traveled 58 miles over the next 19 years until it was plucked from the river near Alabama Power's Plant Gadsden.

Remarkably, it was at Plant Gadsden that the Renew the Coosa campaign was conceived. Charlotte's husband, Gene Phifer, a plant employee, organized the first cleanup in 1999. The next year he organized a larger cleanup. Soon the cleanups spread to other waterways, and Renew the Coosa became Renew Our Rivers. Today, Renew Our Rivers volunteers are cleaning waterways in Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi, and have removed millions of pounds of trash and debris.

This coloring book supports the lessons of the Message In The Bottle program. Special thanks to Tim Towns of Alabama Power for his drawings that bring to life the characters in Message In The Bottle - A River Adventure.