Five years ago, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood in the parking lot near Kaw Point Park, an overgrown spit at the confluence of the Missouri and Kaw rivers littered with debris and wafting the odor of dead fish, someone in the crowd asked him what he saw. The noted clean-water activist said simply: "A squandered resource."
Mike Calwell was there that day. In fact, he and his wife, Laura -- and their work with the Friends of the Kaw -- had brought Kennedy to the gritty industrial bottoms jus
